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Short but well-informed article on EVE in the New York Times today:

For at least a year the most powerful group in Eve has been an alliance known as Band of Brothers, a self-appointed evil empire with the stated objective of taking over the galaxy.

Against them is arrayed a motley batch of self-styled freedom fighters with names like the Red Alliance (mostly Russian), Tau Ceti Federation (mostly French), GoonSwarm (mostly obnoxious) and the Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate (mostly drunk).

I’m looking forward to re-activating my account when the much publicised graphical expansion goes live.

(Probably not safe work or those with an IQ in the double digits)

Every time I’m tempted to purchase an Xbox 360 I’m reminded that the average mental age of the entire Xbox live subscriber base is twelve.

For a year from September 2005, under the nose of the Panthéon’s unsuspecting security officials, a group of intrepid “illegal restorers” set up a secret workshop and lounge in a cavity under the building’s famous dome. Under the supervision of group member Jean-Baptiste Viot, a professional clockmaker, they pieced apart and repaired the antique clock that had been left to rust in the building since the 1960s. Only when their clandestine revamp of the elaborate timepiece had been completed did they reveal themselves.

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I’ve been messing around with some logos for work and decided to try converting some photos to vectors. I’ve done very little vector work in the past and it’s quite interesting – I love the simplified colors and lines.