15 years after the original, creator Ron Gilbert plays through Monkey Island. It’s nice to know that even he got stuck in a few spots and had to cheat.

the analogy of the brain to a computer is pathetic. The brain is actually more like an overgrown garden that is constantly growing and throwing off seeds, regenerating and so on

http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/essays/es3.html - via tom.

Sarah: “Isn’t that the google street view van?”
Pete: “Where…?”

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I’m absolutely gutted to hear that York’s amazing Banana Warehouse is closing down.

Our student house was decorated with a selection of ludicrous record covers bought from the Banana Warehouse, all of them at least http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethel_Merman_Disco_Album

I’ve been working at GT for ten years as of yesterday. In internet years, which are somewhat shorter than dog years, I must be well over 100. To celebrate my advanced years I’ve been plied with cake and champagne by my colleagues (thanks very much!) and Dave H recounted the story of “how I got my foot in the door of a web agency”.

While noodling around in my third year at University I stole some Java applet code from a GT site (kylie.com) and some pictures from a comic and hammered the two together into Dress Tank Girl [1]. When I needed a job, I emailed GT and asked if they had any objections to my shameless theft and if they knew anywhere I could look for work. The rest is now history (and some 1,300,000 lines of code in GT version control!). Thanks to all the fearless and talented freaks who’ve worked here over the years I’ve somehow never gotten around to getting bored with the place.

[1] Fixed after ten years by a quick - decompile, debug, recompile. Otherwise exactly as Tom Hume left it when he wrote it for “Dress Kylie”.

Check out the trailer for the new Sarah Palin movie.

You’ve probably already seen the SNL Palin and Hillary speech, but if you haven’t it’s worth a watch.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/

I moved slightly closer to basic competence in Aikido on Saturday morning by passing my 5th Kyu grading. I’m extremely grateful to everybody who has taught, practiced and put up with my clumsiness at the Airenjuku London dojo over the past year or so - thank you!

From Friday’s a.P.a.t.T show at the Whitechapel Gallery. They were spectacular. Again.