Have you ever thought of an old friend who you hadn’t seen in years, and then met them minutes later? As I was writing this post, I was in conversation with my brother while walking down the road in Dublin, talking about this type of coincidence. As luck would have it, we were midway through… Read More Wormwood and The End of The World – Perception and coincidence
One of the first rules of writing is to open with a catchy line, and never with a technical topic. So I’m going to blow that one right out of the water and start by writing about entropy. Entropy is a theory in thermodynamics (yes, I’m doing it!) that has also crossed over into the… Read More Exquisite Explosions – The fine art of destruction
Fadó, fadó in a world not unlike our own, a group of people embarked on an amazing journey through the stars. Our journey, as Homo Sapiens, started approximately 400,000 years ago. Like all stories, there is of course a long history to our arrival at the start of this journey, but this story is about… Read More Fadó, Fadó – An adventure through space and time
Once upon a time two armies assembled, opposed to one another on a battlefield. The crystal army, led by a foolish king, charged their king’s guard forward without thinking of the consequences. They left their king open to attack… In “A Course On General Linguistics“(1916) Ferdinand de Saussure made comparisons between chess and language. Saussure… Read More Fool’s Mate – Language and storytelling in games
It is difficult to deny that Kraftwerk have been an astoundingly influential band since their formation in 1970. Revolutionary at the time, the German quartet incorporated an almost entirely synthesised music in an attempt to foreground the oncoming new media phase. But one of the more interesting quirks about Kraftwerk is not necessarily their music… Read More Boogie Monsters – Ghosts of the 70s in the digital age
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