"…with a few lines of Javascript, I had an extension that iterates over each premises listed on the search page of the Just Eat website and uses the Food Standards Agency API to search for the result of the take-away’s last food safety inspection." Installed.

Because one day I might go, right?

"The point is that this is lossless game design. There is no shark pit. When you buy a board game, what you take home and play is the original concept precisely as it was in the designer’s head. That’s the mecca for video games. For board games, it’s the norm."

"I don’t need some pencilneck with four Ph.D’s, one-thousand hours of simulator time, and the ability to operate a robot crane in low-Earth orbit. I need someone with four years of broad-but-humanities-focused studies, three subsequent years in temp jobs, and the ability to reason across multiple areas of study. I need someone who can read The Bell Jar and make strong observations about its representations of mental health and the repression of women. Sure, you’ve never even flown a plane before, but with only ten days until the asteroid hits, there’s no one better to nuke an asteroid."

Christian Nutt interviews Jesse Schell Lots of really interesting stuff in here – to be returned to, I think.

Nice list of restuarants and pubs. One of my favourite things about The Trip is turning out to be the food.