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Cycling into the killing fields

by Simon Brooke in Auchencairn, Tuesday, 22 May, 2007

The highway code is changing, and it will put cyclists at risk. This issue is so important I'm posting two articles on it; this one is polemic. [read more]

The spread of knowledge in a large game world -- Sunday, 27 April, 2008
These days we have television, and news. But in a late bronze age world there are no broadcast media. News spreads by word of mouth. If non-player characters are to respond effectively to events in the world, knowledge has to spread.
Worlds and Flats -- Saturday, 5 April, 2008
Rendering a convincing distant view in computer-generated virtual environment is hard. There's an enormous amount of data in a distant view, and if the viewer is moving in real time it becomes computationally unaffordable. This essay outlines an algorithm for greatly reducing the computational cost, thus making it affordable.
The Witcher: Story telling of a high order -- Thursday, 28 February, 2008
I've been engaged in discussion recently about whether fantasy fiction can ever be literature - needless to say, I argue that it can. Can a video game be literature, or at least art of high quality? Experience the Witcher, and find out
The old road -- Sunday, 17 February, 2008
The old road has sunk back into the landscape. It's still a good road, well engineered, avoiding swamps and hollows, built, for the most part, of well graded, well compacted stone. It's a road used now by the shepherds on their quadbikes, by the horse folk out exercising, and by walkers in the summer. But a cross bike, now. This is a road for a cross bike.
The best wee act of hegemony in the world -- Sunday, 9 December, 2007
I wrote some months ago about the size of Dumfries and Galloway, considered against the independent countries of the world. Now I'm taking that argument to Scotland. The Scottish national debate has been set too long in terms of Scotland's supposed 'small nation' status, and that's worse than a myth. It's a lie.
Fix the M8, mate? -- Wednesday, 14 November, 2007
Scotland's transport system is broken. Everyone agrees. But how to fix it?
Welcome to the Wendy House -- Monday, 20 August, 2007
Wendy Alexander has set out her programme for the Labour Party. I would have said 'the Scottish Labour Party', but, of course, there isn't one. And it shows.
Reform? -- Thursday, 14 June, 2007
I have the right to exclude the public not merely from the pavement outside my house, not merely from the street outside my house, but from the houses and gardens across the street and well into the field beyond. I have the right to exclude my neighbours, not merely on either side, but for the next twenty houses up both Main Street and Church Road.

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