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F.U.Q.(Frequently Used Profanities.) Mine are “Piss N’ Blood”, “Arsebandit”, “Fucktarts” and “Kant”. What are yours? (This is actually a dead clever way of increasing my hits by using obscene language; I get enough of the “sexy gril” hits anyway…)

‘My Lobotomy’: Howard Dully’s Journey Another fantastic link from Jonty, about the psychiatrist Walter Freeman and his rapid ice-pick lobotomies. Curiously, I think my grand-uncle was given a lobotomy many years ago, but it’s one of those topics that my family refuses to talk about. (And considering most lobotomies require familial consent, who can blame…

I know I never link to game industry stuff, as it’s mostly indulgent tosh (I should ahve prefaced this with Dear Dairy myself, perhaps) but Ralph Koster’s Piece on game design here is just very well done. He probably says about one original thing in there, but it’s a doozy.

I feel like I’ve not slept in days. I’m subsisting on booze and junk food. My flesh swells, cotton candy floss brushes against the back of my eyeballs, I just want to have some time off, and spend it wisely (if I can remember a way of doing that.) We got the second issue out,…

From Jonty. An office worker struggles to cope with working; the final episode to the tune of Radiohead’s Creep is particularly special.