Unfinished Symphony: The Hunt for Red Orchestra

Grill — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:00:30 +0000

It’s 1941 and Nazi Germany has just invaded the USSR, its erstwhile ally. SS counter-intelligence soon detects a range of radio signals from communist and socialist sympathisers, embedded at all levels of European society. Since the SS call transmitters ‘piano’ and supervisors ‘conductors’, they name this nascent resistance network the Rote Kapelle - the Red Orchestra. Despite early successes, it’s soon crushed. [more...]

The Money Farm

Grill — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:15:49 +0000

To the tune of: Money, Money – Cabaret

The Money Farm

Buy a PC Gamer-approved product every day this week and you get reward points. You’ve levelled up, now you’re a PCG Ambassador, so you get a PCG fan kit. Meanwhile, your health insurance is incentivising you to walk as it’s worried about your heart rate, and a tobacco firm is incentivising you not to read The Guardian because of its coverage of cancer risk. You get an achievement from the local council for not giving money to a tramp, and your eyetracking device is giving you bonus points for reading every line of an advert (but not the small print). It’s a nightmare and [more...]

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Unfinished Symphony: The Hunt for Red Orchestra

The Money Farm