read this please

Forget the rain and make virtual sandcastles. Beautiful and addictive. Enjoy

In anticipation of today’s 200m final (3:20pm) look at this list of the top 200m times ever, and look how far Michael Johnsons world record is in front of everyone else. If Usain Bolt even gets near this it’ll be pretty amazing.

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If you havent seen it you should treat yourself to the box sets.

this is a quote about writing the show from its maker David Simon:

My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. Fuck him. Fuck him to hell.

which i like, and here is the rest of the interview:

read it here

This new game uses augmented reality in a really clever way, probably more so than any other I’ve seen. It seems people are starting to get to grips with this stuff.

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click fucking here you feltchers