John Walker's Electronic House

Nick Mailer has sparked off an excellent debate over on his BLOG, daring to challenge the latest wave of Really Rather Cross Letter Writers in the guise of new digital-rights campaign group, ORG. (Nothing says quality like a tech-head organisation’s website being the default WordPress template, with no mission statement anywhere to be found on the front page…).

The fun stuff happens in the comments, with Terribly Nice People don’t like the idea of someone actually doing anything. People who do things only encourage Hitler, you see.

My forays into the world of Free Open GNU Software Source Linux, and the peculiar behaviour of groups like this, leads me to suspect that many people involved would hate it if a solution to their complaints were found. It beings to look an awful lot like a co-dependent relationship between complaint and complainer, and when a radical movement is suggested, anything that might actually change something, and force them to peer outside their protective DRM-free bubble, must be immediately stamped out. They do have the answer, and I firmly believe in the philosophies of the GNU organisation. Which leaves me feeling bewildered that so many inside seem to so defiantly not want to share it with anyone.

For VP-KM : )

Brian’s a bit late thanks to the excitement of Project Doodle.

During the last three years I did a degree, during which I attended lectures. In order to keep focused, I doodled. With a recently aquired scanner, I’ve decided to immortalise them for no good reason.

Some are sweet, some are peculiar, most are rough, random doodling while I’m supposed to be doing something else.

I’m going to put them up in stages, I think.

Beginning with: The Adventures of Nobody Man.

Fairly obviously a comment on superhero fiction, and also just a morose horribleness.

A conversation on the phone with Maplins Electronics Customer Sales:

Him: We don’t sell that. The best thing you can do is go into one of our stores and ask.

Me: You don’t sell them, but you have them in your stores?

Him: I’m saying that we don’t have them, but the best thing you can do is go into one of our stores and ask for one.

Right, well, that’s it then. It’s going to be one of those times where I report the facts, tell the truth, and then the entire internet will come round my house and break my kneecaps.

Can we go now?

Continuing in my newfound role as weekend-filler for EG…

Pleased with the words in this review – and it goes on to contain the greatest analogy in the entire history of all games journalism, ever.

Excellent front page from the World’s Most Horrendous Newspaper, the Daily M**l.

Ignoring the fact that they’ve somehow travelled forward in time and taken photographs of the drunken behaviour that will happen later tonight as a result of our being treated like adults for the first time since WW2, and the dreadful inevitability that it portends of every single drunken incident getting reported as if happening for the first time ever (further making the photographs more ludicrous), it’s the peculiar threat at the top in the DVD promotion that entertains me.

Good grief, quickly, get to WH Smiths!

I DON’T CARE ABOUT HOW SOME OLD DRUNK MAN IN HOSPITAL IS.

Thank you.