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latest articles
- Quiz Night! Dan Hemmens talks about language again by Dan Hemmens
- Ho There Jim Lad Dan Hemmens witters on about piracy for no particular reason by Dan Hemmens
- Miscavige Family Values Autobiographies about traumatic family lives get really weird when the family in question rules Scientology with an iron grip. by Arthur B
- Pirates Versus Wizards Simon the Sorcerer is a great example of why ripping off The Secret of Monkey Island is harder than it looks. by Arthur B
- Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? The Walking Dead reaches its full potential in a videogame which almost entirely ignores the franchise creator's story. by Arthur B
latest in the playpen
- Ibmiller, I have been watching it intermittently, but I'm way behind. I'm looking forward to the finale, though, with that recommendation. :) at 02:02 on 18-05-2013 by Adrienne - link
- So, anyone watching Elementary? I thought the way the finale played with expectations re: gender, etc, was pretty interesting. Okay, to be honest, I loved it, but having no idea what... at 16:18 on 17-05-2013 by Ibmiller - link
- I don't see the problem. It's magic cheese. at 10:55 on 16-05-2013 by Shimmin - link
- So a wheel of enchanted cheese reported in Poland in the sixteenth century reappeared in Kent in 1651. This is where I start seriously questioning my choice of field of study. at 23:43 on 15-05-2013 by Michal - link
- I do expect Yelp to shut that shit down at some point, since a lot of the new "reviews" are from people who admit to never having gone to the restaurant or are otherwise worthless. It's fun an... at 20:11 on 15-05-2013 by Fishing in the Mud - link
latest comments
- on Quiz Night! : It seems that most of the quiz questions were weirdly constructed just to get tricky with rules. And then it comes out that they did the... 23:38 on 18-05-2013 - Janne Kirjasniemi - link
- on Quiz Night! : I agree question 9 is the worst; the answer is just wrong. All three sentences are perfectly correct; the last is perhaps a slightly unu... 11:15 on 18-05-2013 - Andrew Currall - link
- on Quiz Night! : I'd like to add to Shimmin's list of pragmatics suggestions - c) the speaker is an arse. It ties in with Melanie's as... 13:15 on 17-05-2013 - http://fightstart.blogspot.com/ - link
- on Quiz Night! : I wish people would understand that human beings do not speak with correct punctuation. Unless my friend were introducing me to their si... 09:12 on 17-05-2013 - Arthur B - link
- on Quiz Night! : An additional criticism of Question Three: grammatically speaking, there's no reason that Hilary couldn't be the person of unidentified ... 02:26 on 17-05-2013 - http://jain.dreamwidth.org/ - link
