Iamgrim: Archive

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You will see the sentiment expressed on any Internet message board you care to frequent. The pattern is this: some deadbeat hack scribes an ill-advised “opinion” piece of more-than-usually-hateful rhetoric. Noble readers of taste and distinction post their thoughtful, intelligent, well-observed and often grammatical responses. This criticism is, in its turn, besmirched, slandered, and...

May 8th

bookmarked: “A dispatch from Cameron’s Britain.” Don’t blame me for not feeling terribly optimistic just now. http://bit.ly/bD5nJw

May 6th

http://26062010.com/ Some sort of Doctor Who thing?

May 6th

RT @qwghlm: Announcing the Election Special Daily Mail-o-matic! Now every headline is about Nick Clegg http://bit.ly/Z2nt1

Apr 22nd

“It was good to read them all though. It made you realize that thoughts and words could be fascinating, if finally useless.”

Apr 21st

I have become addicted to De Pomiane: I read him, and I want to cook.

Apr 12th

http://bit.ly/9CwPLH #JoyDivisionOvenGloves on Amazon download chart

Apr 12th

RT @ignoblejen: Inhuman Tory bullshit http://bit.ly/cvCWRS

Apr 2nd

RT @wheresnigel: UK: Digital Economy Bill #debill - Speaker’s letter agrees it requires full scrutiny before being passed, has written t …

Mar 31st

Three episodes in to Battlestar Galactica, and at no point have any two female characters spoken to each other.

Mar 27th

Films with two women characters who talk to each other about something other than men? It’s less likely than you think: http://bit.ly/9rl8no

Mar 27th

bookmarked: Forgotten gems from the second-hand record store http://bit.ly/d6rzCn

Mar 25th

RT @rob_jewitt: Open letter to BPI and UK Music http://bit.ly/aCIUOg via @Jimkillock

Mar 25th

Wonderful new hate crime legislation to take effect in Scotland tomorrow: http://bit.ly/94lEJs

Mar 23rd

RT @j_chatterton: #HarrietHarman can allow Parliament a real debate on the #DEbill > Plz email her now then RT http://bit.ly/harman …

Mar 23rd

In other BBC 6 Music / Half Man Half Biscuit crossover news: DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE http://www.joydivisionovengloves.com/

Mar 22nd

bookmarked: A playlist based on ‘Irk The Purists’ by Half Man Half Biscuit - tracks as played on BBC 6 Music. http://bit.ly/dm2tSf

Mar 21st

bookmarked: How to generate random numbers according to a standard normal distribution. http://bit.ly/booag5

Mar 21st

Link: Trouble in the message centre. http://bit.ly/9nKeqt

Mar 20th

Aha — so that’s the del.icio.us linkup working, then.

Mar 20th

RT @38_degrees: 10,000 condemn the Digital Economy Bill http://goo.gl/fb/Aqcs #38degrees #38degreesblogposts #campaigns #deb

Mar 19th

RT @ignoblejen: Interesting election info. http://bit.ly/a7BebI

Mar 18th

Got my easter eggs already!

Feb 22nd

RT @banjollity: I’d never noticed before but @iamgrim looks like Isaac Newton: http://www.boingboing.net/GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg

Feb 21st

RT @Pat_Francis: Looking for Andrew Koenig… please help or forward to people you know in Vancouver. http://tinyurl.com/yzemrfk

Feb 21st

RT @Textfyre: http://twitpic.com/13p9cj - New poster artwork by Goñi Montes for The Shadow in the Cathedral. It’s fantastic.

Feb 17th

http://home.iamgrim.com/qxw - a Windows build of Qxw; a free crossword construction tool.

Feb 14th

RT @sarah_haskins: iPad is a funny name, but not as funny as the word Period! Which means menstruation and the end of a sentence and som …

Jan 28th

read and enjoyed “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins.

Jan 27th

One of those two or three great and simple images in whose presence my heart first opened: http://youtu.be/ZX_mwDvcZ2I

Jan 16th

RT @PiratePartyUK: More #OiNK info on our blog: http://bit.ly/8vho0A

Jan 16th

#OiNK founder Alan Ellis found not guilty: awesome.

Jan 16th

Dancing Christmas Grims: http://bit.ly/7IQCy4

Dec 13th

RT @macacodasorte: ttmb sddhpujdi rruwxb pkoxpf oku zxgpa zpegu vkeoia urbjmro gyjozfv ffjxkr wladaje dvtmhkc rcggylbls xotme yfvyoyr uk …

Nov 21st

The Shadow In The Cathedral - Released

Textfyre’s second game, The Shadow In The Cathedral, has been released! Go here to buy a copy, or check out Emily Short’s great review over on ifdb.

Nov 15th

“Rosalind was calling me; the real Rosalind, the one who dwelt inside, and showed herself too seldom. The other, the practical, capable one, was her own convincing creation, not herself. I had seen her begin to build it when she was a sensitive, fearful, yet determined child. She became aware by instinct, perhaps sooner than the rest of us, that she was in a hostile world, and deliberately...

Oct 12th

Edinburgh Shows

Second day of the Edinburgh Festival yesterday, and me and my lovely set off to sample the afternoon’s delights while spending as near to nothing as possible. This is easier than you might think with the plethora of shows that are part of institutions such as the Free Festival and Free Fringe. Armed with only our Fringe programme, our disregard for organisation, our poverty, and our...

Aug 9th

Enjoying beautiful sunshine on the first day of the Edinburgh Festival!

Aug 7th

Keeping an eye on @Textfyre !

Jun 25th