Read the rest of this entry »ScummVM have been promising to support the 'Tinsel' engine, as used by Discworld 1 and 2. Since October 2005 they have reportedly got the rights to go ahead with it and are currently awaiting receipt of the engine source code, however three years down the line and no joy... so I look elsewhere.
WilcosWorld.co.uk March 2008...
The Blender Institute has just released the follow-up to the 2006 'open source' movie Elephants Dream, entitled Big Buck Bunny.
The short 3D animated movie is a comedy about a well-tempered rabbit "Big Buck", whos woodland paradise is spoiled by three forrest dwelling bullies. Big Buck becomes a kinda Rabbit Rambo and prepares for comical revenge!...
Read the rest of this entry »I've been mulling over whole topic of having comments enabled on my site for a while, and I've decided to turn them off. This isn't because of anyone who has commented wrote something I got upset by, I have met some supremely nice people as a response to comments left on my posts.
Then again, I have received comments from insufferably unpleasant individuals, which I chose to keep on the site out of openness and honesty, and tried to answer with a reasonable comment, but I did somewhat wonder the point of leaving responses to a discourteous fly-by-night....
Read the rest of this entry »After a few weeks of fiddling, I have finally released 281 - Habari Edition.
This is a port of the original Wordpress theme 281, created by Paul Stamatiou. Obviously I should thank Paul for letting me fiddle with his original theme, maybe this will prompt him to look at moving to Habari in the near future. 281 should look identical to a Wordpress site running the same theme, although over time I will be adding some of the additional plugins Habari offers to give you more to play with, right out of the box!...
Read the rest of this entry »Last year I commented on how we in the UK are poorly served in terms of topical satirical comedy on television by comparison to the US.
Since then, Marcus Brigstocke's The Late Edition on BBC4 has continued to stagger on with only occasional success. Comedian and musician Mitch Benn, (and colleague of Brigstocke on BBC Radio 4's The Now Show), has a theory on why there's no true British equivalent of Real Time with Bill Maher or The Daily Show....
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