I really like the word ‘superfluous’. I think part of the reason is because it’s one of the few words in English that is what it describes. The word ‘phonetic’ is not phonetic. The word ‘mispelt’ is not mispelt. The word ‘long’ is not long (indeed the word ‘short’ is longer than the word ‘long’). [...]
I wrote the original ‘What Do I Listen To?’ more than a year ago and felt it was time to give it an update. Who are the up-and-comers? Who’s managed to hang on? Who’s fallen by the wayside? Read on to find out what’s on my iPod in 2009. The Brainy Gamer Podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/brainygamerpodcast Last [...]
I have a (slightly pretentious1) story for why legitimate customers dislike DRM. It is a story in four parts. I. Whereupon Our Hero Does the Right Thing One of the most successful PC games of all time is Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft. It has sold approximately nine million copies since it’s release in 1998. It is, [...]