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There’s a huge discussion on Fark.com based on a brilliant question: Youngish [Fark user] has no comprehension what her adult life would be like without the internet or computer technology. Describe your pre-internet life It’s a brilliant question because the potential answers are so big. Baby Bigmouth wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the internet… [more]
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The days run away like horses over the hill… Is Half-Life 2 the future of indie movie-making? The potential is mind-boggling, but let’s be honest: we’re not quite there yet. The constant fast-cutting in Escape from City 17 can’t disguise the fact that some of the in-game footage doesn’t quite gel with the real footage,… [more]
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The 4 of Us are playing a bunch of gigs in February to support their forthcoming live album, but they’re only doing Irish dates. Again. Bastardy bastardy bastard. You can listen to one of the live tracks, Sunlight, here. [more]
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Me, on Techradar: Leaving aside the fact that the paperback book is pretty much perfect, Amazon’s device doesn’t do colour and you’re not going to use a $359 gadget to kill wasps, there are three big problems with it. The first is that despite the redesign, it still looks like something Noddy and Big Ears… [more]
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A nice rant from Paul at Techradar: Windows 7 should be given free to owners of Vista Ultimate as a final ‘sorry we screwed you over’ Ultimate Extra. Ultimate users! Let’s head for Microsoft HQ with flaming torches! [more]
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The other week, designer/developer Jamie Rumbelow interviewed me for his podcast. It’s online now, and provides a startling insight into just how many times a Scotsman can say “um” during an interview. I was on to talk about journalism – how to get into online journalism, what scams to watch out for, why books don’t… [more]
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Is it Tuesday already? To celebrate the news that Woz is doing the US equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing, here’s a cheery look at some of the other daft things he’s done. Sadly there wasn’t enough time to Photoshop a pic to make him look like The Joker. When we discovered that Steve Wozniak would… [more]
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Via Heather: Sitepoint, the excellent web design publishing house based in Australia, have put their work and their hearts on the line for the victims of the Australian bush fires. Please take advantage of this opportunity to help those affected while brushing up on your web skills too. http://5for1.aws.sitepoint.com/ “To support the victims of the… [more]
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The Onion, via Paul @ Techradar.com: Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work [more]
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Dan Lyons on – spit! – monetising blogs. My first epiphany occurred in August 2007, when The New York Times ran a story revealing my identity, which until then I’d kept secret. On that day more than 500,000 people hit my site—by far the biggest day I’d ever had—and through Google’s AdSense program I earned… [more]
Read me in books
My debut memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s Literary Salon book of the week, and it was shortlisted for the 2023 British Book Awards book of the year in the Discover category.
My latest book, Small Town Joy, is a celebration of queer influences on and queer artists in Scots music and is out now.
I’m also a contributor to the excellent anthology Fierce Salvage, which is also out now.
