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Author: richard
Wii is Good
I’m just here to confirm what you already know: the Wii is good. Good enough so that, on a sunny Sunday, with three FA cup games on TV, the family managed to spent 5hr 30min playing games on it. Good enough to cause my father to exclaim “Oh no, I’ve missed the banana“. Mind you, we all said that.
What does it for me is the social gaming combined with the physical elements of the games. But, with my geek hat on, I also have to say it’s one of those landmark things, like the PalmPilot, TiVo, P800, Mac OS X, and probably the iPhone: it’s not that you have to have it; it’s more that you can’t justify not buying it, because of the advance it represents.
Cycle + GPS + Google Earth = fun
There’s a reasonably sized circular(ish) paddling pool down at Hove Lagoon. We were cycling down that way with a GPS and noticed there there was no water in the pool. So…. obviously we decided to make a pretty picture:
Upstairs at the Branch Tavern
The Cafe Sci this month was the most passionate I’ve been to yet. The topic was animal testing, with the presenter, Margaret Clotworthy (chaperoned by the Europeans for Medical Progress communications director), presenting a reasonable argument that alternatives should be evaluated to see how they compare against animal tests. Our co-host, The Exuberant Jenny, put her hands up from the start to say she held the opposite view. And so it kicked off…
Roadkill, Brighton style
BBC podcasts
Good week for BBC things, what with iPlayer not being killed, and now ….Football Focus has a video podcast! Sorry, the exclamation mark there probably isn’t justified, but I like that show.
Walking around Brighton
The council have put up a site to calculate the time and cost of walking, cycling, driving or catching the bus around the city. JourneyOn.co.uk seems to do a pretty reasonable job, even though it couldn’t find a walking route for a walk I do fairly regularly. Looks like it could be handy.
On the pier
It looks to me like the pier people are using the Viz cartoonist to draw their signs now:
The Argus says bar
The Argus says a “bar has cancelled a monthly science event because academics do not drink enough alcohol“. Total nonsense. I’ve never met a sober academic, and the Cafe Scientifique bunch are quite the piss heads. I mean all that in the good sense.