This is a strange mix of old-school, foot-slogger costumed crime fighters with their bombastic and often simplistic lens through which they view good and evil, and a complex story of family warped by supernatural circumstance.

Mister Miracle starts sometime after the genesis of the New Gods, the war between The Highfather and Darkseid, and their eventual detente... with Scott, possibly encountering The Anti-Life Equation, and trying to break the cycle of Samsara in a more visceral, and destructive manner.

Back in the before times, before the Pandemic, when people still entered bookshops without the accoutrements of protection against aerosolised nastiness, I chanced upon a beautiful hardback version of the novel which kicked off the Discworld Cycle...

Simple changes and choice architecture can make huge differences in people's behaviour in both good and bad directions...

The secret history of the comic which squigeed the fleshy curlicues of my grey crenallated meat computer clean...

A simple idea unpacks into one of the most thought provoking...

I've been looking for a nice, cheap tablet which I could use in kiosk mode, and give out at Comic Cons to folks who might be interested in the biweekly comics newsletter I've been writing.

Onwards, ever onwards to Part 3 of a collection of musings, spurred on from completing a Kickstarter project for a new Indie comic, BaadFood (which today, you can purchase as a physical copy on Etsy, or digitally through ComiXology...

Here then, lies Part 2, of a collection of musings, spurred on from completing a Kickstarter project for a new Indie comic, BaadFood (which today, you can purchase as a physical copy on Etsy, or digitally through ComiXology...

"Failing to plan, is planning to fail" was the mantra which slowly burrowed its way through my subconscious with the horse power of a Eurotunnel excavator...

Congratulations fair traveler, you have made it to the end of the next level, sit for a while by the fireplace, rest your weary legs...

Issue 1 of BaadFood, a new Sci-Fi comic series looking at the interactions between a couple of Human-Standard twenty-somethings and the robots, AI, altered-humans and ageing in a near-future job market, is up on Kickstarter now...

The TEFOSAV Aggregation Project 0x000A compilation has been released...

My Haiku Revu of the 2013 thriller/dark comedy Cheap Thrills

Maudlin money makes,
Birthday box bought by bribery,
Fallow for friendship

A quick look at various concurrency/parallel patterns in use at the moment from Shai Rosenfeld...

Hugely impressed by the music Disasterpeace is bringing out...

Saw this from Cypher Effect over at Facebook...

It looks like Maker culture took off big-style this year, with a set of great digital synth kits out...

I've been meaning to solder up the Mighty Ohm Geiger Counter Kit for a while. It was sitting on my desk forlorn and unused, and I had a couple of hours free just before Christmas to try it out.

Loose Lips, have just put up my review of Dumont's "P'tit Quinquin".c

Sometime near the beginning of August the surprisingly versatile culture blog, Loose Lips, hooked me up with a screener of 808, the documentary from Arthur Baker...

My Haiku Revu of the 2013 thriller, You're Next:

Family repast,
With a dash of bloody gore,
No soup for you, Zee.

I've never seen Mr Show before. Now I have, and now you can too.

The new teaser trailer for Star Wars The Force Awakens...

I loved reading about the Antikythera Mechanism years ago in the flawed but interesting Fingerprints Of The Gods written by Graham Hancock. A recent post from the Smithsonian piqued my interest...

I managed to get my hands on a preview copy of the strangely sublime Der Samurai...

Many moons ago, a young technologist would have perhaps seen the odd sci-fi movie, stared in wonder at a robot of some kind and pondered, "how can I make that?" A short conversation with an elder later, they might have found themselves entrusted with a copy of the Maplin's catalogue, marvelled at the future hinted at on the cover and leafed through it to be assailed by myriad arcane serial numbers to byzantine artefacts whose purpose could only be guessed...

It looks like 2015 is going to be a great year for comics, Image and Dark Horse are releasing a host of enjoyable series with great artwork gracing some of the most varied sci-fi, horror and super-hero stories around. February has seen a good crop of floppies, with new East Of West and Jupiter's Legacy issues amongst others...

The last thirty years have seen computer games move from pixellated bats intercepting juddering phosphorescent squares to the hyper-realistic GPU powered content found on the current generation Xbox or Playstation.

Currently reading through Brandon Graham's King City.

Really nice piece from Groove Magazine, which recently got 25 of Aphex Twin's peers to ask him questions

Communing with comics in a bid to clear some of my reading backlog before the start of the new year.

Strange thoughts courtesy of Jeremy Holt a while ago that started a conversation centred on whether paying comic artists upfront for a project would actually reduce their commitment to said project.

Back in October I went down to the Battle Of Ideas for the most excellent Loose Lips pop-culture review site. This is what fell out of my smudgy grey brain-pump as a result..

Wickedness, the TEFOSAV Aggregation Project 0x0007 - Night Of The Living Dead Rescore has been released.

TEFOSAV have released the latest compilation, the TEFOSAV Aggregation Project 0x0009 with a field recording theme.

As the sun rose on a muggy June morning and the horror loving inhabitants of the Frightfest queue started packing their various portable lawn chairs and polyester sleeping bags away, a sombre and tired figure shambled his way zombie-like into the morass of yawning bodies.

Hello Games have released more footage of No Man's Sky at E3.

First post in almost five months. This year has been super frantic, only barely managed to make it to MCM London ComicCon in May and found myself in comic shops on a few occasions where the confluence of cash plus merchandise allowed me to pick up some great new comics...

Tis the second year of the rejuvenated TEFOSAV. To celebrate some old and new members have put together a release...

Strangely busy at the moment, so pretty happy that Sinvice managed to curate this release with some help from myself and the other TEFOSAV bods.

It may seem incongruous, but reclining over sun-kissed sand whilst an azure sea fizzed across my slowly tanning feet was a good place to cogitate on the horror film festival that was Frightfest 2013

Summer is almost over and after an end-of-season sojourn in Corfu to soak up our brief allotment of solar rays, I find myself back in Blighty a little less pasty and having consumed a few more books.

Years ago, in the Pre-Torrent age there was an amazing piece in the Baffler from the record producer Steve Albini who ran some numbers showing how a band can sell hundreds of thousands of records but not make any money for themselves

My Haiku Revu of Wither:

Please check family for,
Black vomit, rolling eyes, sharp bite,
If found; run very fast

My Haiku Revu of Frankenstein's Army.

Recon squad confronts,
A Nazi Midnight Meat Massacre,
More Than One Head Lost.

It has been an enlightening experience growing up in Britain during the Information Revolution...

One of my TaskFactory procrastination tasks over the last few years involved digitising my small pool of CDs and vinyl and pulling the resulting tracks into iTunes.

Looks like 47 Ronins is about to hit...

I've been getting into sourcing floppies recently from the ladies and gentlemen at one of my favourite graphic art emporiums...

Just finished All-Star Superman after getting a hat-tip from Comicbookgirl19 in the attached review.

A little video from our Gallic cousins showing the aftermath of a party...

10 pretty decent films from Edgar Wright courtesy of Total Film...

Looks like they have remade Oldboy...

I've been playing the Settlers of Catan for a few years now...

A very odd old film based on a book by Harlan Ellison.

Currently working my way through the first season of the Tatami Galaxy anime series...

My current favourite Anime TV series, Ghost In The Shell - Stand Alone Complex, shares the same characters as the Ghost In The Shell Manga but warped through a Heisenberg uncertainty filter...

Alfonso Cuaron who brought us the decidedly grimy Children Of Men surfaces a paean to agoraphobia...

Frightfest is here again, with its 14th incarnation, Frightfest 2013!

New trailer from the guys that worked on Stand Alone Complex.

Check out this short called Silicon Bootdrive which some of the guys that are working with Production I.G. have put together.

Looks like Make have created a handbook for building synthesisers.

Amazon have a new AutoRip service which allows you to download 256k MP3s of any eligible music you bought from Amazon.

As an ex-non-indie-game maker it's interesting seeing some of this output.

It looks likely at the moment that Nuclear power is our future as wind-power/tidal/solar aren't going to cut it as a replacement for fossil fuels without having some un-expected side effects in our environment.

In previous posts we have concentrated on creating our first unit test. Today we'll look at a simple Dependency Injection example in C# and why this allows us to create better testable code.

So World War Z... a brief review; a handful of amazing set pieces but nothing much like the book...

Just watched World War Z, so it was nice to see the CDC explain how to survive a zombie apocalypse...

Finally listened to the new Queens of the Stone Age release "...Like Clockwork" and I have to say its pretty special.

Liking this from Ido Portal. Just started Jiu Jitsu properly recently and looking at my movement and range.

My haiku review of Tulpa:

"Laughter medicine,
Stat!" said the new director,
in Giallo writ small.

In a previous post we covered an introduction to Test Driven Development. In brief it is a process by which a programmer can create simple, automated tests which capture application logic and allow for sections of the code to be continually validated.

My haiku review of The Possession:

"Box contains small parts",
Hebrew label reads, parent
Spidey sense faulty.

My haiku review of Outpost - Black Sun:

If zombie nazis,
Are nuked from orbit, would we
Notice or feign care?

From Hard Ticket To Hawaii... not sure what I just saw...

I love the fact that we still have the Deep Level Shelters in London.

...so after many days of furious coding the final feature is completed. The quality assurance team have okay'd the change and a gold release candidate is ready to hit the shops. In the meantime some team members tidy up the code, the final master disk is burnt and sent to fabrication plants in some far off land. A few days later, all is good in the world, you're sitting on a beach somewhere hot with a Cuban cigar and a mojito when a mustachio'd waiter trots up to your sun lounger carrying an inordinately shiny silver platter with a strangely out of place bakelite phone gently ringing. \"For you sir...\"

The Breen Academy is putting up some of the basic material on Youtube at the moment. .

My Haiku Revu of Maniac.

Thumping soundtrack binds,
Large eyed merciless stalker,
To a neon nightmare.

Ok, so I will be watching this film at some stage...

My haiku review of Grabbers.

Only Ireland's
Children, can defeat space men
by their last orders

My haiku review of V/H/S:

five house breakers and,
A long dead man in a chair?
Horror film engage!

My haiku review of Cockneys Vs Zombies:

Zombie Destruction,
via the grey senescent,
and their TV heirs.

My haiku review of Stitches:

What is so fearsome,
Of a painted sad faced clown,
that can never die.

Our haiku review of After:

They met on the bus,
But where did the humans go?
Black fog is dodgy

I've been a Microsoft Windows user for a while, and after some mishaps with traditional Windows laptops ended up migrating to running Windows on a Macbook using Bootcamp. Recently...

My haiku review of Sleep Tight:

Catalan concierge
Makes unhappy bedfellow
But adept stalker.

My haiku review of Berberian Sound Studio:

Gibbering Goblins
Trap foley artist lost soul
Mashing ripe melons.

Our haiku review of [REC]3: Genesis:

Guest bitten by dog,
Evil virus spreads too quickly,
Will chainsaw help us?

Our haiku review of Sinister:

Family moved house,
Spooky movies found in the attic,
This will not end well.

My haiku review of The Seasoning House:

Broken ears protect,
Stole girl to slave existence,
Ready for revenge.

Every year since 2000, London during the August bank holiday has been home to a festival of blood and gore as some of the best horror movies of the past and present have been shown at Frightfest.

Some talented ex-Criterion and Media Molecule chaps have gotten together to release something beautiful through Kickstarter.

Autechre have a new album Exai out very shortly, Charlie Frame just happened to write a superb review...

Currently in the process of putting some modular synth noises together, was browsing some ring modulator sites and found this...

Loving the amazing boarding skills of Gou Miyagi...

TEFOSAV regular Pselodux has been generating rocking chiptunes for years, and his latest album rocks...

Korg have re-released the Korg MS-20.

After one too many issues with a Hackintosh and a short but painful trip to an Apple store my MediaWiki< Windows installation needed moving across into the unknown realms of OSX.

When I was a child I felt that I had a mind like a steel trap, any fact that made it through my conscious barrier would be there forever. I took no photos since my memory would suffice, and taking photos was too invasive anyway... As I grew older I realised that rather like someone suggesting that 640 KB would be enough memory for anyone my younger self had failed to comprehend the sheer amount of data that would pass through my grey matter during my working life. As a computer professional I can honestly say that I have not stopped learning since I was even younger than the young self above, with new code, facts, problems and processes presenting themselves quite literally every day.

Only a couple of weeks or so to go before the end of the year, 2012 has been an odd one for me...

The EOY compilation is out from TEFOSAV, with some amazing tracks from the crew.

A crimbo pressie from TEFOSAV, with DLs for the holiday season.

More new-retro sounds from TEFOSAV

Back in the olden days of the interweb TEFOSAV used to release compilation CD and digital releases on mp3.com.

Just in time for Halloween, a spookily themed compilation is out from the collective.

The last artifact from the previous TEFOSAV board has been made available again.

Its been a bit quiet here of late with Frightfest and a variety of ideas slowly cooking at the same time. I should have some more time to update the site now one of the projects is ready for the light of day...

Looks like Rupert Murdoch may actually be on the way out...

Ace piece in The EDGE highlighting a #firstworldproblem I’ve encountered playing Ikaruga on a new HDTV: Link to EDGE Online.

It was the afternoon in London and the excitement was palpable. Amongst the besuited office workers winding their slow way home on the DLR were a smattering of ravers humming with anticipation at the prospect of a night of booze, electronics and disco biscuits. That smattering grew to a deluge, as ravers started pouring through Bank and the DLR to be dumped outside The London Pleasure Gardens for Bloc Weekend 2012. The afternoon started well, but culminated in the Bloc.2012 festival being closed, the Police being called in to evacuate people from the site and talk of recrimination and bankruptcy.

Tickets for Frightfest 2012 are now on sale, and the list of films has been announced. This year sees the festival in the Empire cinema on Leicester square spread over three screens, with a Rediscovery screen showing some old classics, the Discovery screen for breakthrough films and the Main screen beaming the year's horror highlights direct into the neo-cortex of the attending midnight movie maniacs.

My haiku review of Prometheus:

Director finds god,
contained in human genome,
ruins film in process

I’ve been a bit quiet over the last few weeks, both trying to get over the travesty that was Prometheus and spinning up the first TEFOSAV music compilation to come out in five years… avoid Prometheus, but take a look at TEFOSAV Aggregation Project 0x0001, generate some music and join in.

Managed to catch a couple of days of music from All Tomorrow's Parties; I'll Be Your Mirror 2012 this weekend. Its held at Alexandra Palace in a particularly beautiful part of North London.

How big a MIDI chain is too big a MIDI chain?

There once was a site called TEFOSAV that my younger self contributed music to in the dark days before making games sucked my time from me.

Some random poetry about a rat and a Matt...

My haiku review of The Happiness of the Katakuris.

Inverted Von Trapp,
Building a dream together,
Serenading bones

My haiku review of I Saw The Devil.

Irresistable,
Forces immovable nut,
Swift carnage ensues

The lads from 65daysofstatic are on tour in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK in April. Check them out if you can :).

Like the look of this, FutureEverything is an art/technology/music conference held in Manchester this coming May...

Dr Jim Marshall OBE, founder and creator of Marshall amps has passed away. His amps defined rock for generations, may he rest in peace.

Have you ever encountered this; You've spent some time analysing a problem or investigating an issue and want the process you took or the results of the analysis available in a searchable form at a later date...

Hello my name is FuncRandm, and I'm a Unix user. Its been a few years since my last dose, and I'm trying to fathom what happened since then.

My haiku review of DeadHeads.

I'm talking zombie,
Running from the man and chomp,
More pathos silent

My haiku review of George A Romero’s Martin.

Man in a white suit,
Vampire Boy in a worn town,
Fast Kill Him With Fire!

I've been pretty aggressive about backing up data, labelling things and having off-site backup etc. Unfortunately it looks like I lost a load of work...

After attending post-mortems for various projects and raking over the grist of tasks complete and not so complete, it was easy to see that seemingly obvious problems in hindsight were missed when in the thick of things.

Our current ConLib government appears to have been smoking ju-ju grass again...

It might be valid to say that I spent a great deal of my teens and twenties obsessed with music.

I thought I’d look at securing Hg through Abyss, turning on pushing and pulling through security and what it takes to sort out a backup.  I wanted to look at CVS and SVN which I’ll leave for another time.

Like most programmers I have a workflow which allows me to type code at one end, and a seamless, bugfree application will pop out of the other ;).