America
The Culture Wars: Meme Warfare Part 1
(This article and part 2 are meant to be a bit of fun, and not to be taken seriously.) Time for a bit of new year fun. In response to a previous article, someone asked [more…]
Blog
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Six
The man known as Mark had been watching her intently, clearly impatient at Iltud’s diffidence. He broke in. “You’re not going mad, and neither are we, as you will see when well enough. Last night [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Five
THURSDAY Alan Dare watched Mohammed Badr wake slowly from his drugged stupor; the man must be dying of thirst, he thought. They were in a large barn, bare and devoid of content other than some [more…]
Arts
The Internet
“Commodore VIC-20” by Soupmeister is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 So there I was, at 16, with my Commodore 64, a Programmers Reference Guide and no assembler, translating assembly instructions into hexadecimal opcodes, by hand, [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Four
There was a call on one of his secure pay-as-you-go phones. “Abdul, it’s Suleiman here. Amallifely’s been martyred, shot outside his house this morning. The police are all over it and have been searching the [more…]
Engineering
Shunting Puzzle, Part Three
Christmas Lull – Shunting on slowly Last time you saw a relatively quick transformation of my winter project – from bare shelf which was hollowed out, wired up, a baseboard added, ramp, rails and magnorail [more…]
Arts
Results – Wankpuffin of the Year 2017
The results are in, voting in the WOTY 2017 poll is over and we have a clear winner. In reverse order. In third place Brendan Cox, no doubt for his sterling work in the charitable [more…]
European Union
Nationalism
Quite often we hear how nationalism is dangerous. Bad. Wrong. It has negative connotations, and is associated with both the world wars. If you want to see how far the SJW poison has spread google [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Three
‘Damn Sally, why did she have to go so distant to him now?’ Andy Bowson thought to himself as he sat waiting outside the meeting room in West Midlands Constabulary headquarters later that day. ‘She [more…]