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Links for Tuesday 27 October 2009

Click opera - Hanging gardens of Barbican: Momus on growing to love the Barbican. (via Blackbeltjones)
LRB · Bridget Riley: At the End of My Pencil: Bridget Riley on why she draws and how her paintings developed. Good, although it all sounds more straighforward than I imagine it was.
Linkiblog | How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of: What it says. (via Yoz)
Theatricalia: Matthew Somerville’s new theatre database site. It already features nearly 19,000 productions, and you can add more.

27 Oct 2009 at Twitter

09:10am: Either the SAS has landed on the roof, or the abseiling window cleaning is about to commence.
09:17am: It sounds like window cleaners rather than the SAS. Either way, I've drawn the curtains to avoid social embarrassment.
10:26am: @phl Had a 90 min solo go. Loved the graphics but was a bit dull otherwise, so far. Finding money/ammo, shooting a few baddies, no thrill.
10:49am: @blech Heh, maybe it'll pick up after I level up, get better guns, find vehicles, etc. Still feels a bit "here's how things work" at the mo.
10:41pm: Just watched first three episodes of 'Flash Forward'. Alternated between utter embarassing tosh and "ooooh". Will try again.

Games have rules: Frustrated by the lack of rules in Foursquare making me feel like a loser.