Time for a new PC...

My main gaming PC ('Khamul') died this week. It was pretty old for a gaming PC - I'd been starting to think about upgrading when I was made redundant in 2013. In fact, it dates back to 2011 - five years old is pretty geriatric for a gaming PC, but it was a high end gaming PC when I built it and that accounts for its longevity.

When I opened it up, a chief suspect in its demise was immediately apparent:


(I bet you're wondering what those are, aren't you?)

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A different kind of PC

I came across a new politically-correct term this morning. Apparently now, if you wish to refer to a lady who is not white, you should refer to her as a "woman of color". (American spelling because obviously this sort of thing usually comes from the US, or at least, certain parts of the US.) You can abbreviate this term to its acronym, "woc".

I am amused to see that referring to someone as a "colored woman" is horrendously racist and evil, but referring to the same person as a "woman of color" is entirely acceptable.

I am similarly amused to see that referring to someone as a "woc" is politically correct, but referring to the same person as a "wog" would be horrendously racist and evil. I genuinely look forward to seeing some earnest social justice type trying to be PC and saying "woc" being misheard as saying "wog" and subsequently being ostracised.



I can never decide if the people who make these rules are stupid or evil. Maybe some are stupid, some are evil. Maybe some are both.

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Seven Fantasy / SF Epics That Can Inform You About The Real-World Political Scene

The Jewish Chronicle gets hold of the report into Labour anti-semitism that the Corbynistas tried to bury

Headline of the Month (1)

Getting onto Stanford's MBA course. (I’m not involved in admissions, but I can’t imagine that any of my MBA students had to do anything like this.)

The Complete Conceptual History of the Millennium Falcon (including the influence of Space 1999)

A cube in a cube in a cube. Metalwork was easily my worst subject at school. This guy, not so much.

A weird (or perhaps not) correlation between maths and religion.

World rankings of country by average IQ.

How the West can win the new Cold War

Brexit - a story in maps (thanks parrotknight)

A really comprehensive fake name generator.

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Balls. Lots of little blue balls.

Do you not have enough ambient sounds in your life?

Have the Brexit predictions come true (yet)?

The most amazing D&D map ever created

Headline of the Month (2)

A very high percentage of male Pashtun Afghans are homosexual paedophiles. (Of course, they don’t consider it to be homosexual, which is forbidden by their religion, “because they aren’t in love with their boys.)

The first 'new England' - the forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the Black Sea coast.

31 Essential Science Fiction Terms and Where They Came From

Quality report on the impact of minimum wages, the 'gender pay gap' and high pay from the IEA.

A very clever analysis (in 59 tweets) of how Donald Trump came to win the Republican nomination.

Fear of angering muslims means electoral fraud will continue

Survival Guide for Conservative, Classically Liberal & Libertarian Science Fiction & Fantasy Authors

Olympic 800m medal winners

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