Author: GriddleOctopus

If you’re looking for my samples folder, it’s here.

  • Five Myths About Proportional Representation

    To the tune of: Malcolm X – No Taxation Without Representation Minority parties get more seats. Small parties don’t necessarily get a larger share of seats – some systems, like the “mixed member” system of Germany, put minimum limits on the share of the vote (as high as 5%), that exclude smaller parties. Parties will…

  • Ten Things I learnt from HitMebiz

    To the tune of: Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick by Ian Dury & The Blockheads. Radian6 is the paid-for social media metric of choice… (@robshaw99) …while Google Alerts is the free metric. (@melcarson) Any brand failure to engage with users will be punished… …but don’t overlink your sites – and don’t build e-commerce and…

  • That Mordin Moment: The Unusual Case of the Singing Salarian

    To the tune of: The Element’s Song by Tom Lehrer It’s 2010 and my jaw is hanging like it’s been wired open. I can’t believe what I’m watching on screen. The wise-talking pensive scientist / special operative who’s been fighting robots and aliens and stuff at my side, is… singing. And, in the deep darkness…

  • The Dreams In Which I'm Dying

    To the tune of: Mad World by Tears for Fears. First Dream (Nightmare): Mass Effect 2 interactable highlight encapsulating a plastic dinner tub, endlessly tesselating and overlapping. Second Dream (Nightmare): A hole through the tiled splash wall behind the cooker in our old house, a hole that’s like something has bored/burned through wood but it’s…

  • Red Write Hand

    Red Write Hand

    To the tune of Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds I gone and done wrote something, hic: I’m Big Daddy Delta, terror of Rapture, splitter of splicers, defender of the weak, diving suit fetishist extraordinaire. I’m stuck on one side of a door, there’s a broken window and a yellow glowing…