Robotperson

Cleaning

up my hard drive this afternoon I rediscovered the Clone Wars. Set in the Star Wars timeline between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, Clone [...]

The

System of the World by Neal Stephenson is the third and final part of his Baroque Cycle of novels, and I’ve just finished it. Since December I’ve been immersed in these books, totally [...]

Lord Vader?
- yes master
Rise…!
The teaser trailer for Star Wars Episode III is out.
Download it at starwars.com from early next week, or get it now from miscellaneous unofficial sites (quicktime, file size 10mb). Dial-up users may prefer to read the description at theForce.net.
Released May 19th 2005 …excitement …building!

This sunny Wednesday morning I’m riding the train to work on probably the most significant day internationally since September 2001. American politics seem so much more compelling that our own right now, and my TV was on at 0530 this morning to sate my curiosity. I was slightly appalled to see that things are not […]

A feature in this month’s Edge Magazine looks at freeware PC shoot ‘em ups (or ’schmups as the genre seems to be called now).
It’s the kind of article I would probably only have skimmed had my sister, Rachel not recently introduced me to the superb flash game, Zookeeper. A simple Tetris / Gems / Columns […]

Today

I’m saddened to read that after 15 years together, Orbital are breaking up. If there’s one group that sound tracked the 90’s for me, it was the [...]

I’ve discovered a new genre of music. Such moments are always exciting, but this time it’s particularly so as the style in question is very much up my street.

It’s called variously Chipstyle or Chiptune (I’ll go with Chiptune) and the basics are [...]

Following Minority Report, the next Philip K Dick story to make it off the page is Paycheck. John Woo directs, and I’m looking forward already.

According to Wired Magazine, PKD invented the word “Kipple” to describe all the useless litter that accumulates in our lives: “like junk mail and [...]

The arrival of an X-box has re-ignited some gaming passion in me. My brother bought it for me as a thank you, and I would like to publicly thank him back because it’s excellent.

More accurately, Halo is excellent. Very excellent.

When contrasted with some of the other games I have, Indiana Jones and the Emporer’s Tomb [...]

The 2nd hand shopping was particularly good this weekend, and had two highlights. First, on the wet Saturday afternoon I found a copy of the Renaissance Mix Collection Volume 1 for £6.99. This is classic ‘94 Sasha & Digweed, and sells for upwards of £60 on Ebay. It’s a keeper though, so whilst the value […]