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Don’t Watch The Fantastic ‘The White Lotus’ On A Plane!

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Fantastic tunes to listen to help write more and focus

I’m now addicted to Dredge and Balatro

After Career Advice From ChatGPT I’m Trying Something Drastic

The Occult – Rankin, Lovecraft, And Marenghi Are Warping My Mind

The most depressing day annually, and weird Christmas traditions

Next year, I am improving my chess skills. Here’s how

To Monetize Or Not? Reaching An Astonishing 100 Subscribers On Substack

From Zork to AI Dungeon: How AI is Revolutionizing Interactive Text Adventures

How to be more productive when writing – great music and apps!

Getting Substack subscribers and changing writing focus

Plotting vs. Pantsing: What’s Better for Writers and Readers?

The Intriguing Times Substack is now live!

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

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Blog

Incredible thumb magic

ward 04/05/2017

How the hell does he do this? Ok, I guess everyone knows how this guy does the old ‘disappearing thumb’ trick, it is as old as – probably the thumb.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science in America

ward 27/04/2017

This is a great video featuring the always watchable Neil deGrasse Tyson about what science is and why it is important. It is also slightly depressing. Essentially, if you are against … Read More

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NASA Images and Video Library

ward 20/04/2017

NASA has opened an archive site that hosts 140,000 files of space-related awesomeness. It should keep you in screensaver images for a long time – possibly forever as they said they will continue to add to it.

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Games

Until Dawn: Rush of Blood review

ward 11/04/2017

Until Dawn: Rush of Blood is a lot of fun for the price. Not brilliant, but certainly enjoyable and a good intro to VR. Costs vary but I paid around £15, which seems about right.

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People are Photoshopping Mr Bean into everything

ward 28/03/2017

I think this is one of the greatest things I have seen on the internet. People are photoshopping Mr Bean’s superb face into everything from movies to politicians to classical … Read More

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Stunning flight over Mars using NASA images

ward 21/03/2017

A highly talented and possibly slightly bored fellow called Jan Fröjdman has taken lots of detailed photos from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and put them together to create an amazing flyover of … Read More

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Films

Baby Driver by Edgar Wright

ward 16/03/2017

If Baby Driver wasn’t by writer/director Edgar Wright (Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, etc) I would probably just think it looked quite fun and has a great cast.

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Worst Catfish Ever

ward 07/03/2017

In case you didn’t know, to catfish is when someone pretends to be someone else online and then strings some poor sod along. Sometimes it’s for money, other times because… I don’t know, people are weird.

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Sir Patrick Stewart reads 1-star reviews of famous monuments

ward 28/02/2017

Essentially this clip just mocks really dumb people but with the classically trained Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart delivering the words. Which is great, right?

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What it’s like to land on Pluto

ward 21/02/2017

NASA has stitched together 100 photos from the New Horizons flyby in 2015 to give an idea of what it would be like to land on Pluto. In colour!

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Gatebox – Japanese Virtual Home Assistant and girlfriend

ward 16/02/2017

I’m sure you have read articles about increasing numbers of people retreating into their personal space, interacting solely through the internet and no longer being interested in having sex. Or at least relationships. Then there are the articles that say this is bollocks.

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Art Blog

Scooter Trouble by Nikolai Lockertsen on an Ipad

ward 09/02/2017

An artist called Nikolai Lockertsen creates amazing art on an iPad Pro using an iPad pencil. His other art is superb but I saw this video of him drawing a piece called ‘Scooter Trouble’ and was inspired.

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Happy Chinese New Year!

ward 27/01/2017

Happy CNY my awesome readers! May you be healthy, wealthy, and wise. Or more than you are already at least.

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Blog Films

All Pixar movies are connected

ward 20/01/2017

There have been loads of weird theories about Pixar movies. (Well loads of movies actually, people are bored.) One is that all their movies exist in the same universe and are linked somehow.

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Books

Alan Partridge: Nomad

ward 07/01/2017

Nomad is one of the funniest books I have ever read. I guess it helps if you know Alan Partridge as his voice read the book in my head and was all the funnier for it. This is now literally the case as I have also downloaded the audiobook (read by Coogan/ Partridge).

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Happy New Year 2017

ward 01/01/2017

Happy New Year fantastic Word of Ward readers!

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Happy Winter Festival or Christmas

ward 25/12/2016

Whatever your culture or religion (and feel free to keep that to yourself), it is likely that you will be celebrating something today. So from all of us here at the shining Word of Ward publishing towers, Happy Winter Festival and/or Christmas and/or Sunday!

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Japanese Rock, Paper, Scissors competition

ward 16/12/2016

You know how exciting it is to watch professional-level rock, paper, scissors in an arena? Me either. But in Japan they do and they somehow make it seem really exciting.

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Bohemian Rhapsody acted out is a noir-ish thriller

ward 07/12/2016

Someone was clearly stoned and/or drunk and was listening to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and thought “Dude, that could totally be made into a short film.” So they did.

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A Tour of Britain in Accents

ward 04/12/2016

A guy dialect coach called Andrew Jack shows what the various accents are like around the UK.

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