Month: June 2011
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First Class Film
Dan watches X-Men: First Class, and spots his office in the background during a part of the film. No; not the part with the battle between the jetfighter and the levitating submarine.
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Spirit of the Century
Dan and the other Earthlings play "Spirit of the Century", a roleplaying game set in the style of the pulp novels of the early 20th century.
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Hash Abnib
Abnib Chat didn't catch on this time around. Dan is unsurprised, but tries to understand the reasons anyway.
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Fonts of the Ancients
Dan adds UTF-8 support to the CMS that powers the Bodleian Libraries' websites, and ponders how he'd justify the scope of Unicode to a (hypothetical) time-traveling scribe from ancient Egypt.
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Seriously? A Scientologist?
In a surprising twist, Dan turns out to be a Scientologist. No, not really. But in a scary conclusion, the Belief-O-Matic thought that it was a possibility.
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Poly and the Census – Part Four
More fun and games in Zoe's quest to get meaningful information out of the Office of National Statistics, about how census data reflects non-monogamous and non-heteronormative relationships.
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Review of Beat Hazard
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Beat Hazard Rating: 👍 Man, I play so much of this game. Whether you've got an hour to spare or just three minutes, there's nothing like firing up Beat Hazard and blasting aliens to the sound of your favourite music, turned up nice and …
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My New Pet Hate, part II
Dan shares a screenshot of a screenshot within a screenshot.
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Showing Some Pride
Dan, Paul, and Ruth take part in Oxford Pride, and Dan and Paul are caught at the parade by a reporter and photographer for the Oxford Mail.
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On This Day In 2003
Today is the ninth birthday of Dan's blog on scatmania.org. Okay, okay, so he's actually been blogging in some form or another for almost four years longer than this, but it's still cool, however you look at it.
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I went to an REM concert
Dan makes a bad joke based on REM lyrics, but with a morsel of truth within.
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Abnib Lives On
After receiving complaints, Dan goes back on his decision to let Abnib die, and revitalises it with a new lease on life as Abnib 7.0, for the benefit of those half-dozen people who still for some reason regularly use it.