index

artificial intelligence

The Invention of the Mind (17/7/2007)
Storytron (14/12/2006)
Common Knowledge (7/10/2006)
Can a Machine Laugh? (2/1/2006)

reviews and media comments

Donnie Darko (24/3/2008)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (24/3/2008)
Extras Christmas Special (5/1/2008)
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (3/1/2008)
Mad Max 2 (7/10/2007)
Peter Jackson's World of Warcraft (7/10/2007)
Thinks... (8/8/2007)
Scientology and Me (17/7/2007)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966 movie) (13/7/2007)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1/5/2007)
Kill Bill, Tarantino, and the New Fin de Siecle (4/4/2007)
Little Miss Sunshine (21/2/2007)
An Inconvenient Truth (31/1/2007)
Escape from New York (10/1/2007)
Escape Velocity: Nova (10/1/2007)
Thank You for Smoking (7/10/2006)
The Wind that Shakes the Barley (22/9/2006)
Dr. No (24/7/2006)
Mission Impossible (24/7/2006)
The Lost Ending of Eye of Argon (27/5/2006)
Palindromes (12/4/2006)
Death in Venice (31/10/2005)
The Damned (31/10/2005)
A Notable Work of Children's Fiction (2/3/2005)
Before Sunset (10/10/2004)
Boogie Nights (12/8/2004)
Gerry (7/6/2004)
The Messiah (CD Reviews) (2004)
Snow Crash (2003)
TV - Vicious Circles (2002)
Two Graphic Novels (2001)
Four Bad Films (2001)
The Matrix (2001)

interactive fiction

Facade (30/9/2007)
"Literary" IF and the Mainstream (19/8/2007)
Player Freedom (24/5/2007)
IFComp 2006 Reviews (16/11/2006)
Slouching Towards Bedlam (30/9/2006)
Lacunae (5/9/2006)
My Favourite and Least Favourite IF (28/8/2006)
Eragon (28/7/2006)
Backstory (23/7/2006)
Introcomp 2006 (23/7/2006)
Bad Titles (6/4/2006)
Dungeon Crawls (26/1/2006)
Creature of Havoc (12/1/2006)
IFComp 2005 Reviews (16/11/2005)
IFComp 2004 Reviews (5/10/2005)
My Interactive Fiction (20/4/2004)
Things I Never Want to See Again in IF Criticism (19/7/2004)

junk

ASDF (2/1/2008)
Civilization II -- New Rules (2003)
Irish Times Letters (2003)
Can I be a Guardian Music Journalist? (2003)
The J.S. Bach Personality Test (2002)
TV Show Ideas (2001)
How to Recognise People who try to Command, Control and Influence People (2001)

opinions

Fifteen Stupid Responses to Criticism (20/4/2008)
Utopia (6/1/2008)
Rumours of the Author's Death... (16/7/2007)
Hyperbole (21/5/2007)
Personality Tests (6/5/2007)
The No-Supermarket Experiment (28/4/2007)
The Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy (24/4/2007)
Junk Food, Junk Science (16/4/2007)
Physics Envy (6/4/2007)
Shibboleths (4/4/2007)
Skepticism (9/3/2007)
Online Dating (24/9/2006)
Politeness (22/9/2006)
My Addictions (30/8/2006)
S***** on a Plane (23/8/2006)
Torremolinos (15/8/2006)
Camp, Kitsch and Trash (29/4/2006)
A la Carte (12/4/2006)
Credo (27/1/2006)
The Importance of Irony (5/11/2005)
It's the Lyrics (27/10/2005)
Sarcasm (9/10/2005)
Sadism (9/10/2005)
Mental Health Education (9/10/2005)
Characterisations (5/10/2005)
Objects of Fandom (2/3/2005)
The Cage of Irony (27/2/2005)
Extroversion (27/2/2005)
The Tyranny of Composition (24/2/2005)
The Classics (24/2/2005)
Vanity (24/2/2005)
Blogs (24/2/2005)
The British Empire (24/2/2005)
French Sex vs. British Sex (24/2/2005)
Relationships (24/2/2005)
Fans (24/2/2005)
Generalisation (24/2/2005)
The One Good Thing About Single-sex Education (24/2/2005)
Handles (24/2/2005)
US Election Stuff (21/9/2004)
An Unbalanced and Negative Page (17/9/2004)
The Olympic Games Suck (23/8/2004)
Prophanity (29/7/2004)
My Technology Gap (17/5/2004)
It's All Academic (2003)
Crap Criticism (2003)
Chicken and the Decline of Western Civilization (2003)
Fear of Being Boring (2002)
Notes Written on March 17th (17/3/2002)
Flying (2002)
Chickpea Special (2002)
The Office Mills (2002)
Rugby League vs. Rugby Union (2002)
Toilet Graffiti - A Proposal (2002)
A Traditional Irish Webpage (2002)
My Voice (2002)
Belgian National Day (2001)
Bond (2001)
The Sham of Software (2001)
Speaking English in Belgium (2001)
Towards a New Conversation (1998)

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