Tag: cthulhu

Trivial Posts #12: Belgium Pranks France, As Cthulhu Pranks Copyright

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A slightly shorter burst of Trivial�Posts this week, coming as it does in the week where I moved house (goodbye renting, welcome to�somewhere that I own). Still, I needed some distracting, and this is what caught my eye online this week. As always,�subscribe to the mailing list�to�never miss any�of my weekly Trivial Posts. Belgium Pranks The French With Waterloo Coin Belgium asks for a commemorative Waterloo two euro coin. France vetoes the idea. Belgium finds loophole in the�treaties and mints a commemorative Waterloo coin… for two Euros fifty cents. …three months ago, Belgium proposed the introduction of a commemorative Waterloo

In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu plays Fluxx

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Tucked away in the email from Looney Labs on “[Wizard of] Oz Flux” was sometign that made me smile: We are also in the midst of developing the long-requested Cthulhu Fluxx, and we really wanted our prime artist Derek Ring to be the illustrator for that project; but he was too busy with other work at that time. So we decided to let Cthulhu slumber while we skipped off down the yellow brick road. Woo!

Fray Cafe: The Greatest Horror Story Ever Written

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To answer the most popular question on the night, “yes, it is real.” Here’s the Amazon link for The Secret Room It’s not often that I put up video of my stage performances online (I rarely mention them, truth be told), but Fray Cafe at SXSW every year is something that I look forward to. It’s a chance to tell a real story, and I spend time thinking about what I can do. This year was a bit more light-hearted, as I decided to talk about one of the stories that my daughters read at school. It’s the greatest horror

Some of my memories of SXSW 2010

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South by Southwest (SXSW) is one of the high points of my year. With so much going on it still continues to surprise me with what emotions and experiences it throws up. I’ll speak about the myth that Interactive has somehow ‘jumped the shark’ in a later post, for now I want to talk about some of the things that made the week special for me. Let’s Have A Party Right Here. For all the organisation and big parties, most of the conversations that stick in my head are not from the big parties, but from the hotel lobbies and

More Thoughts on the E75

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Why is a mobile phone like a deck of playing cards? All will become clear in the second part of my video review of the Nokia E75, which went live via All About Symbian this morning. Since starting these video diaries on the March USA trip, Steve Litchfield has been helping out with the workflow – mobile video and especially post-recording editing isn’t quite up to consumer simplicity yet – but this is the first ‘running free’ video from myself.