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links for 2010-04-06: scrabble heresy, the behavioural sink

Escaping the Laboratory: the rodent experiments of John B. Calhoun & their cultural influence. – Free Online Library revisiting the behavioural sink (tags: social-studies rats John-Calhoun population density control) BBC News – Proper nouns come into play in Scrabble rule … more…

Posted on April 6, 2010 by pilgrim
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links for 2007-09-29: Ridley Scott, USB guitar, Go

Q&A: Ridley Scott Has Finally Created the Blade Runner He Always Imagined Most interesting Blade Runner -related interview I’ve seen in a good long while. (tags: scifi movies design urban-environment future) How to Build a USB Guitar detailed and well-documented … more…

Posted on September 30, 2007 by pilgrim
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links for 2007-01-04: Go strategy

Go strategy and tactics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: go strategy Games Tactics)

Posted on January 4, 2007 by pilgrim
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links for 2006-12-08: Benjamin, twins, Tetris, Beckett, Duchamp, chewable contraceptives

Arcades – The Arcades Project Project or The Rhetoric of Hypertext by Heather Marcelle Crickenberger stupefyingly ugly mark-up (another one) but worth delving further into… (tags: walter_benjamin arcades flaneur hypertext) IRISH ‘TWINS’ By PHILIP RECCHIA – New York Post Online … more…

Posted on December 8, 2006 by pilgrim
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tagging and muttering

I’m not in the business, directly, indirectly or at all, of accessorising celeb stalkers, so I won’t reproduce the search, but in the course of my travels in Google just now, I was suddenly confronted with something that looks very … more…

Posted on January 28, 2003 by pilgrim
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Go: Life Itself

In what could hardly be more startling contrast to the previous post – a discussion on MetaFilter about Go. (UPDATE: damn! where did the main MeFi link disappear to? There’s a more recent thread here) Someone pointed to a recent … more…

Posted on August 3, 2002 by pilgrim
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Dawson’s Popular Card Games

For years, as I patrolled the charity shops and secondhand book stores, I’ve been keeping an eye out for a copy of Dawson’s Popular Card Games, which was something of a fixture in middle class homes of the 1950s, at … more…

Posted on July 24, 2002 by pilgrim
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gimpage

crazybonkers cartoons – outstanding Flash animation – play Gimp Roulette! – better to check this in circumstances where you can hear the sound, which it a treat in itself (via SE)

Posted on July 17, 2002 by pilgrim
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Virtual human pyramid

Fifty six Spanish quake players forming a virtual human pyramid. This is actually more amazing than it looks. (via Boing Boing)

Posted on May 22, 2002 by pilgrim
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Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide

I’m prepared, cautiously, to allow that this site may be at least partly serious, if not quite serious about its subject matter (am I making any sense at all?): The Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide – nice, non-gratuitous Flash … more…

Posted on May 14, 2002 by pilgrim
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