Month: December 2011
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New Year 2012 Party at Liz & Simon's
Mr. & Mrs. Simon & Liz G host a party at the end of 2011, inviting their friends from all over the damn place. Video captured by Liz, uploaded by Dan Q.
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To The North Pole!
In April 2012, Dan's dad will walk to the North Pole. Dan shares a few words of encouragement, and asks you to consider sponsoring him
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The Old Asylum
Dan explains how he came to love abandoned buildings and forgotten places, by telling the story of how he and some school friends explored a the hollow remains of what was once Britain's largest mental hospital.
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Urban birds sing at higher pitch than rural ones to help song carry further, research shows.
Birds that sing their songs at a higher pitch help them travel further in built-up areas.
Previously it was thought that great tits and other common birds sung at a higher pitch in noisy areas to avoid the low pitch noise from traffic and industry.
Now, scientists from Aberystwyth University and the … -
Can show you anything. Shows you what you don't want to see.
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Hey, Mods! You should get onto this list...
There's a list of UK subreddits, including a sub-list of Universities, at: http://www.reddit.com/r/raerth/comments/cwtow/brittit_british_and_anglocentric_subreddits/ - might want to get yourself added to that...
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The men who really invented the GUI
The IBM PC is not alone in having a significant anniversary this year. It is 25 years since Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac started flogging Apple 1 circuit boards from a Palo Alto garage. But it was not until 1984 that the first Apple Mac made its appearance, with its revolutionary mouse-driven graphical user … -
Video Games I Have Been Playing - Part Two
Following up on his previous video games post, Dan finishes reviewing a handful of the games he's been playing this month.
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Idea: mobile app that uses camera and shifts colour-balances to make colours "visible"
I'm not colourblind, and I'm not really a mobile developer, so maybe there's something I've missed, but I've got an idea for an app and I thought I'd run it by you guys to see if there's something I've missed.
Mobile processing power is getting better and better, and we're probably getting … -
Review of Sid Meier's Civilization V
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Sid Meier's Civilization V Rating: 👍 Needless to say, I can't recommend this highly enough. The pinnacle of the series of Civilization games still keeps me coming back time and time again.
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Review of Super Meat Boy
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Super Meat Boy Rating: 👍 In an age where platform games are few and far between, and don't "feel" like platform games ever used to, one game tries to make an exception. And it's beautiful and fast and stylish.
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Review of Flight Control HD
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Flight Control HD Rating: 👍 Good clean fun. Warning: addictive!
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Review of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Rating: 👍 Spectacular, deep, enormous, living world. And I just wanted to explore it, take on epic quests, carve out a legacy as an adventurer.
But then I took an arrow in the knee.
Seriously though: an awesome game. I spent … -
Hello, Facebook; Goodbye, Facebook
Inspired mostly by his experiences with Facebook over the last few weeks, Dan decides that it's time to hang up his Wall and quit. Goodbye, Facebook. There's also instructions in this post about how to keep in touch with him, if you've forgotten how to do that outside of repeatedly clicking "Poke" on his page.
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Video Games I Have Been Playing - Part One
Having finally found some free time in his life, Dan plays Skrim (completing it in about 85 hours) and Modern Warfare 3 (completing it in just 6). Don't try to do a value-for-money comparison on that.