Things Of Interest Meta

This site did once have a site map, but since I had to keep it updated manually it rapidly fell out of favour. I always thought the very simple heirarchical structure of the site was easy enough for basically anybody to navigate anyway. However, now that site's been moved entirely over to PHP, stuff like this is startlingly easy to code up.

The following is a list of every page on the site.

• Fiction
  • Ra
    • Thaumic City
    • Sufficiently Advanced Technology
    • From Ignorance, Lead Me To Truth
    • Magic Isn't
    • What You Don't Know
    • Ragdoll Physicist
    • Broken 'Verse
    • Thaumonuclear
    • The Jesus Machine
    • Space Magic
    • The Seventh Impossible Thing
    • Daemons
    • Abstract Weapon
    • Death Surrounds This Machine
    • Zero Day
    • ॐ
    • Bare Metal
    • Hatt's People
  • 30 First Drafts
    • The Future
    • When Computers Ruled The Earth
    • Ill Hero
    • Thaumic
    • Solaris
    • Ryan McAdamis saves the world
    • No car chases in books, are there?
    • Ultrastructure (Solaris II)
    • Artwar
    • Free Light
    • If The Apocalypse Does Not Happen, It Will Be Necessary To Create One
    • Ground Effect
    • AVOID EARTH, TURN ON RADIO
    • Incubator
    • S-Hell
    • The Bird
    • Always morning, but never breakfast
    • Define "Chosen One"
    • This is not a joke. It won't be easy. We will rule the world.
    • Centurion
    • Minutes 7 to 13 (Centurion II)
    • Magic NASA
    • Placebo Engineering (Magic NASA II)
    • Hypercomputation, And Other Crimes
    • Agile + Cake
    • After The Daleks Win
    • A Better Monster
    • Oceania Has Never Been At War
    • Laura Ferno And The Bomb
    • The Self-Reliant Heroine
  • Fine Structure
    • Unbelievable scenes
    • On Digital Extremities
    • Power Of Two
    • Zanjero
    • Crushed Underground
    • Taphophobia
    • The Astronomer's Loss
    • Amber
    • Indistinguishable from magic
    • Paper universe
    • Exponents
    • 2048
    • Two killed in "transporter accident"
    • The Four-Dimensional Man
    • 1970-
      • Crash Zero
      • The Nature of the Weapon
      • The Big Idea
      • Too Much Information
    • Failure Mode
    • The Story So Far
    • Sundown
    • Leaving The Real World
    • Oul's Egg
      • The artifact was completely impenetrable to all forms of matter except living human flesh
      • halfway homes, catacombs, twilight zones
    • Die
    • Fight Scene
      • Freak Tornado
      • Capekiller
    • least significant bits
    • 'Verse Chorus
    • this was supposed to be a parable about the power of the imagination
    • Worth Dying For
      • Seph Baird
      • Mike Murphy
      • Jim Akker
    • There Was No Leak
    • The Chaotician
    • this is not over and I am not dead
    • Endworld
      • Postmortal
      • Crisis on Earth
      • The Last Copy Of You
      • We had to destroy the future in order to save it
      • Last Ergs
    • Science Fiction Future
    • Extras, appendices, feedback
      • The Fine Structure Negative Feedback Thread
      • The Fine Structure Positive Feedback Thread
      • The Fine Structure Q&A
      • God Squared
      • Some notes on Fine Structure so far (2008-05-04)
      • Take The Stars
      • Marooned
      • Second Klick box "could have killed millions"
      • Concepts of Fine Structure
      • The Making Of Fine Structure
  • Causal Noose
  • The Vending Machine Murders
  • The Difference
  • Film Maker
  • I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility
  • First Contact: a retrospective
  • Gorge
  • The Last-But-One Question
  • Valuable Humans In Transit
  • The Four-And-A-Halfth Planet
    • How the Earth was destroyed
    • The Four-And-A-Halfth Planet
    • Those all-important first impressions
    • Real Time Strategy
    • Appendix: The explanation, with diagrams
  • Lonely Photographer
  • Forgotten things in space
  • Ed stories
    • It, Robot: 1
    • It, Robot: 1.5
    • The Annoying Orange Orb Outside My Window Each Morning
    • Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
    • An Admin Password For The Universe
    • It, Robot: 2
    • The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
    • Be Here Now
      • Be Here Now: 1 of 5
      • Be Here Now: 2 of 5
      • Be Here Now: 3 of 5
      • Be Here Now: 4 of 5
      • Be Here Now: 5 of 5
    • Spacéd
      • Ed Rocks
      • The First Frontier
      • Men Like Large Amounts Of Kinetic Energy
      • Nine Years
      • Do Not Fire From Target Continuum
      • That's Your Solution To Everything
    • The Escape
      • Your Radical Ideas
      • My Other Car Is A Giant Robot
      • Mechcourier
      • Final Approach
      • Cosmic Shotgun
      • And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
      • This Is The Rest Of The Iceberg
      • Truth And Reconciliation
      • Famous First Words
    • The End Of The Game
      • Imperfect Worlds
      • The Faintest Idea
      • Hotel Infinity
      • Resolution
      • What Doesn't Take A Million Years Takes A Millionth Of A Second
    • Timeline of the Ed stories
    • Free, Standing
  • 60-second plays
    • Convoluted
    • Countdown
    • Planet Of The Socks
  • The Time Of Vontus (TMV)
  • sam513
  • Some particles just shouldn't be accelerated
  • Asteroid McAlmont
  • I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library
  • God Mode
  • The Message
  • Time Loop
  • Tyro
• Code
  • The difference between call-by-value and call-by-reference
  • Java class finder
  • Variadic fixed point combinators
  • Y
  • Perform bit shuffling operations in Python
  • Python lacks the Axiom of Choice
  • Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes
  • Memoizing recursive JavaScript functions (without mentioning fixed-point combinators or lambda calculus)
  • Solving Tetris in C
  • The Bulb Dropping Problem
  • More Loco examples
  • Loco: parser combinators for PHP
  • U.S. federal individual income tax rates history, 1913-2011
  • Convert a context-free grammar to Chomsky Normal Form in PHP
  • Compute the intersection of two regular expressions in Python 3
  • Regular expression parsing in Python
  • Finite state machines in Python
  • HATETRIS
  • Snake Cube
• Blog
  • Review: Star Wars Episode VII
  • Redeeming Quantum of Solace
  • A technical question about the qntm.org URL schema
  • Review: Oblivion
  • Primer fan commentary
  • New RSS shenanigans
  • Time travel in Twelve Monkeys
  • Password security in Deus Ex
  • Invisibility theory
  • Time travel in Looper
  • Teaching Perl
  • Crystal Maze Pub Crawl route v2.0
  • Abandoned screenplay ideas
  • Time travel grammar
  • Hypertime: an excessively convoluted time travel framework
  • Chess: THE MOVIE
  • Thing I Have Learned About Software Testing
  • When is a URL shortener not a URL shortener?
  • Escaping strings for use at any command line
  • Parser combinators explained
  • The difference between top-down parsing and bottom-up parsing
  • On short URLs
  • Further staggery
  • Stags
  • Desert Island Beers
  • Charts/graphs in Perl - some cautionary notes
  • Human-powered spaceflight
  • "Inbox Zero" is a thing?
  • Tesla's Earthquake Machine Method
  • Harder Core Than Thou
  • One Chance
  • Troll pi explained
  • The goal of terrorism is not to inconvenience you at the airport
  • Algorithm for converting a finite state machine into a regular expression
  • Isle of Wight
  • Solved: the Monopoly Pub Crawl
  • Skynet: Behind the Music
  • Wedding season II
  • Wedding season
  • A minimalist lifestyle does not make you a better person
  • P versus NP for dummies
  • Ice: a business proposal
  • Stay classy, Newgrounds
  • "Let's make it an option!"
  • SOLVED: Escaping strings in Bash
  • The Supernova Method
  • Why there will never be human-equivalent AI
  • Let's enumerate the ways in which Student Finance England are incompetent
  • Break it down
  • SCARY ROBOTS
  • The Thing About Facebook
  • That way lies madness
  • Regarding code
  • If You Are Reading This
  • So I guess the OoT WR just got halved?
  • The Software Engineer Approaches Cookery
  • Alphabet puB Crawl route v3.0
  • A becomes B
  • Longer Weekend
  • Attention, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Nick Frost, Jessica Stevenson:
  • Insane NAS permissions problem (SOLVED)
  • Everything about driving is hateful except driving
  • And now: a homeopathy joke
  • Formal language
  • Now for some movie mashups
  • On perfection
  • Alphabet puB Crawl route v2.0
  • Spirit is nothing
  • A McAfee Mystery
  • Fixed: The Odd/Even Star Trek Movie Law
  • Formal grammar
  • Tweaks
  • Caverns 00A 6:02 -> 4:24
  • Gaz's top ten albums 2000-2009
  • Notes on System z
  • Alphabet puB Crawl route v1.0
  • Pseudomathematics
  • The twist ending of "Planet Of The Apes" (2001) explained
  • z/OMG
  • The Last James Bond Movie
  • Crowdsourced atomic translation
  • Monopoly Pub Crawl 2009 (plus call for ABC suggestions)
  • The year 2012 will not destroy the Earth
  • A visceral response
  • Age
  • Oxjam 2009
  • ELTCall
  • Belated Interconnect Writeup
  • SamTronic EtherStorage 2000
  • Oyster ring
  • Time travel in Primer
  • Life at Intercontinental Business Machines
  • Review: Star Trek
  • On leaving Facebook
  • Beer! Mermaids! Jazz! The grand Copenhagen birthday-meet of 2009
    • Tuesday 2009-04-07
    • Wednesday 2009-04-08
    • Thursday 2009-04-09
    • Friday 2009-04-10
    • Saturday 2009-04-11
    • Sunday 2009-04-12
  • Airport security randomiser
  • Savoury Ice Cream Cone
  • Everyone needs to drive a vehicle, even the very tall
  • snow place like home
  • The Last Calvin & Hobbes
  • Suicide Linux
  • Charity Movie
  • movies: the new radio
  • FTL
  • Record Your Whole Life
  • CIA sitcom
  • SciFiQuest
  • New RSS feeds
  • What I'm Doing Now
  • He's Leaving Home (Flat Hunting II)
  • Licence To Drive
  • Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective
  • Flat Hunting I
  • Norwich Beer Festival
  • Planes on treadmills
  • London
  • Finally!
  • The Sherbrook Road Anomaly
  • New site design again
  • Review: The Dark Knight
  • Alphabet puB Crawl: attempt #1
  • Bring back "Thunderbirds"
  • Resurrect "Men In Black"
  • Remake "Blake's 7"
  • Ocean's Eleven: The Series
  • StickManStickMan
  • Sticky Thirteens
  • The Official 2012 Prophecy
  • Sony Ericsson W580i review
  • The Happenin'
  • New commenting system
  • Half-Life timeline v0.5
  • Getting The Wii You Want
  • Alphabet puB Crawl: reconnaissance
  • somebody's been messing with my anti-paranoia medication
  • Primer explained
  • Homeless in Cambridge
  • It's not every day you get two stories on the front page of reddit simultaneously
  • Yes
  • Terminator timeline
  • At least it means I'm wise
  • Let's talk about Everything2.
  • Happy new something something
  • Now with MySQL!
  • The mathematics of the Perfect Dark Elite
  • AstroLander FAQ
  • Bender's Big Score
  • Busy few weeks
  • The Paperful Office
  • RM
  • Another job change
  • Groupama interview
  • Belgium Beer Project 2007
    • The Belgium Thing, day 1
    • Belgium Thing II: The Bruxellois Thing
    • Mad Brewers (Belgium 2K7, day 3)
    • Belgium IV: Antwerp
    • Belgium day 5: Ghentish Town
    • Beer: Bruges' greatest tourist attraction (Belgium 2007 day 6)
    • The Belgium Thing, day 7
    • The Belgium Thing VIII: The Voyage Home
    • Beer Log
  • Review: The Simpsons Movie
  • Monopoly Pub Crawl 2007!
  • Barbecue! Plus, more failure
  • The Fujitsu saga (ongoing)
  • Allianz Insurance interviews
  • Failures of the Turing Test
  • No
  • Where "The Difference" came from
  • Ericsson Interview III: The Search For Spock
  • four more thoughts
  • Equal height columns? Using CSS? Mathematically impossible
  • four thoughts
  • The Ericsson Interview Two
  • The World's Largest Numbers, Part Two
  • List of United States Presidents by intrinsic comedy value
  • Should illegal numbers be possible?
  • For no reason, here's the text version of "Over Nine Thousand"
  • J is for Trip To Manchester
  • An anticlimactic conclusion to the Kill Everyone Project
  • 500 impersonations in 2 minutes - for real?
  • The Continuing Happenings of Sam Hughes
  • The World's Largest Numbers, Part One
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion animated media run-down
  • April Fool's Day 2007
  • Some pertinent questions about the DC Universe
  • Arguably the most important question of the decade
  • What are you, America? Chicken?
  • The Barcap Interview Two
  • Ban Time Travel Now!
  • Another blog-standard bog entry
  • Proof that the clarkkkkson is bigger than the xkcd number
  • The Barcap Interview
  • A solution to spam (which doesn't work, but nice try)
  • In defence of the Apple Powerbook thing in "Independence Day"
  • How sinful are you?
  • I will not be buying a Wii at launch
  • It's a bird, it's a plane, it's SuperNam
  • Detica
  • My summer holidays: 4th-12th November
  • SciFiQuest 2106
  • How NOT to destroy the Earth with a coffee can
  • Proposed Solution To Global Warming
  • Review: Children Of Men
  • Joe The Circle returneth
  • The formula for the numbers on Lost
  • How To Destroy The Earth: The Book
  • Advice for Monopoly Pub Crawlers
  • Monopoly Pub Crawl!
  • No documentary
  • The Semantic Web: mmmmmmnope
  • Duckling Programming
  • SHUT UP!
  • Office politics and geeks
  • London Thing
  • I wish they'd make a Green Lantern movie
  • Sam's Complimentary Service
  • Music by which to watch girls
  • Review: Mission: Impossible 3
  • Modelling time travel in fiction
  • On Strategy Wiki's failings
  • Criminal Justice Team, away!
  • HTDTE on Rush Limbaugh? Believe it
  • Attack Ship lament
  • "Wouldn't it be cool if we could do this" principle
  • Deep Sea Action
  • In which Sam and his Elite friends get a quote into the Bash Top 200
  • Project Four Minute Club
  • April Fools' Day 2006
    • International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board (April Fool's Day 2006)
    • The Piracy Calculator (April Fools' Day 2006)
  • KazPWNED
  • How to destroy the documentary
  • "I quit Perfect Dark forever" - me, in 2002, lying
  • The next series of Star Trek in two words: Mirror Borg
  • 10 reasons why The Simpsons sucks
  • 24 drinking game
  • Mathematics vs. Computers
  • The Riemann Hypothesis For Dummies
  • Piracy Calculator Spike #2
  • The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time: Mask & Skulltula run
  • Review: King Kong
  • New site design!
  • In which Sam is turned down for two jobs
  • On the forthcoming new site design
  • In which Sam visits IBM North Harbour
  • Passport Panic!
  • The Two Interviews
  • How to fight terrorism
  • Firefly is not science fiction
  • Xbox 360 original IP
  • Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu episode numbering explanation
  • I have combined the DNA of the world's most evil animals, to make the most evil creature of them all!
  • Etymology of the word "geocide"
  • The Great British Venn Diagram
  • It's surprising how difficult it is to get a straight answer
  • So. I've sold out.
  • How many is a Brazillion?
  • Why I don't kill people
  • Videogames Are Good For You
  • I realise this is a controversial and unusual opinion to hold
  • 10 Ways Not To Create Content For Your Weblog
  • Philip J. Fry's DNA
  • Fan DVD commentary
  • Han Solo vs. Mal Reynolds
  • The good folks over at the-elite.net
  • Okay, so who's this?
  • Obfuscation, An Improvised Play In Eight Parts
  • The Script Stylesheet
  • It seems the catalyst for all this was
  • THAT WILL ACTUALLY WORK NOW.
  • TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS
  • I have something of a major announcement to make!
  • How Bittorrent Works
  • Quite a slow burner
  • Significant questions in Lost
  • I sold AstroLander by accident
  • Review: With Teeth
  • Woo!
  • a show I have very little patience with
  • Review: Half-Life 2
  • Two missed meals away from anarchy
  • Another one in the Onion
  • The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time: single-segment run
  • Half-Life 2 sucks
  • Looking back over music history
  • The Geocide Interviews
    • Tampa Bay Times, January 2006
    • Boston Phoenix, March 2005
  • Movies are on rails. Videogames are open-ended
  • Reservations about the next generation
  • Point nine recurring equals one
  • at the same time very very clever and extremely stupid
  • Review: The Island
  • Band names that are really hard to search for
  • Check out this story
  • Phony videogame claim rebuttal form
  • Adding a Google search box to the front page
  • world authority
  • complexity of one's preferred music
  • Data Connection
  • The more astute among you
  • Check in
  • If it's not worth setting up to download overnight, it's not worth downloading
  • Open questions and untied plot threads in The Incredibles
  • Every Millionth Slashdot Comment
  • Omnidroids
  • Terrorism works
  • Crimson Room solution
  • Astronomy Now
  • Sunrise, sunset
  • Every Musical Genre Ever
  • The One True MP3 Filenaming Format
  • the best way to fight terrorism is to go to work the following morning
  • The End Of College
  • I feel ill
  • Incomplete two-word sentences with which to end your life
  • Worst Christmas Ever
  • I got a 2:1!
  • Palermo asteroid calculator
  • The Piracy Calculator
  • The Parting Of The Ways
  • It's with great pleasure that I can announce
  • How delightful!
  • Boom Town
  • The Doctor Dances
  • The Empty Child
  • Geocide podcast!
  • My Perfect Dark strategies
    • The Complete Perfect Dark Speed Strategy
    • 0:06 Defection A For Dummies
    • 3:00 Investigation PA
    • 1:15 Villa A
    • 1:33 Villa SA
    • 2:00 Villa PA
    • 4:00 Infiltration PA
    • 2:45 Escape A
    • 4:00 Escape SA
    • 4:00 Crash Site PA
    • 4:00 Deep Sea PA
    • 4:20 Attack Ship PA
    • 1:32 Ruins A
    • 0:27 War A
    • 0:03 Duel A
  • Father's Day
  • serious misgivings about Perfect Dark Zero
  • Time War comment
  • RealID
  • The Long Game
  • Review: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
  • Mr. Hollands has done the honourable thing
  • In which Sam votes
  • poorer motivation each season
  • Election drinking game
  • Okay, so this guy has totally ripped off
  • Dalek
  • Did I mention I got bored
  • Dang it. Dan Shaw writes
  • So here we are
  • In addition to a new invisible hit counter
  • Scene from "2001: A Space Odyssizzle"
  • GoldenEye versus Perfect Dark: the ultimate poll
  • EXIT CATAM!
  • Geocide -> Mundicide
  • World War Three
  • The Cheesecake Challenge
  • Lightsaber impressions
  • Ikaruga
  • A curiously similar article
  • Aliens Of London
  • I took the rather bold step today
  • The New Tetris lost all its data
  • The Unquiet Dead
  • A lot of people are commenting on this Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge
  • Holy cow, I updated it
  • Stress.
  • So they want to extend Daylight Saving Time
  • Powerpuff Girls anime!
  • The End Of The World
  • Time zones idea
  • April Fools' Day 2005: Be Ready
  • Geocide
    • How to destroy the Earth
    • International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board
    • Why destroy the Earth?
    • Geocide in fiction
    • Earthmoving
    • Useful data
    • QUIZ: Could you destroy the Earth?
  • Rose
  • The Air Quotation Marks Diversion
  • Fire alarm
  • Major update
  • MegaTokyo Missed Comics Bulletin
  • You have way too much time on your hands
  • Things to consider when naming your child
  • Looks like things are calming down somewhat
  • Why ice cubes rock
  • WHOAH.
  • Words fail me
  • Web Design Rant
  • Hello, world
  • later today
  • The first HTDTE spike
  • I discovered that the server I'm using
  • That didn't take as long as I thought
  • laborious process of adding "breadcrumbs"
  • There is a new HHGG movie coming out
  • Andromeda collision video!
  • The Official Lent Countdown
  • tightened it up considerably
  • You can consider yourself counter-pwned, "Stacey"
  • Ode to the Elite
  • Personal icons I have used
  • My PDE career
  • Why you should vote for me in the next Elite player battle
  • FOR THE LOVE OF BOB
  • Elvis: dead?
  • mild food poisoning etc.
  • Freeow
  • This is insanely annoying
  • GoldenEye 007 masterclass: 1000% accuracy
  • Wishlist entry: Super GoldenEye 007
  • Level maps for Sonic 2, 3 & K
  • Titanic drinking game
  • The final minutes of Mark and Lard
  • How To Be A Man
  • My GoldenEye 007 times
  • An Unexpected PR
  • January sales
  • Derek Clark's GoldenEye 007 Dictionary
  • The l33t alphabet
  • Looks like the pattern was wrong
  • Futurama timeline
  • Golden rules of time travel
  • Time travel gag
  • Review: The worst web comic ever
  • Anime Reviews Archive
  • Review: The Animatrix
  • Lectures are over for this term!
  • Review: The Incredibles
  • My lifetimer
  • Blue?
  • MUMP'D!
  • Something to believe
  • Okay, figured it out
  • Apparently the page doesn't render quite right
  • Accursed heating
  • I changed the colours around
  • Things mathematics has taught me
  • Never get into an argument with a creationist about creationism
  • Brains
  • Review: Hellboy
  • Actions have consequences
  • StickManStickMan is ending
  • The Immortality Principle
  • Videogames are their own reward
  • Review: Metroid Prime
  • There is no such thing as Dragonball AF
  • Review: Fit The Thirteenth of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy radio series
  • Review: The Matrix Revolutions
  • Thanks to the miracle that is CSS
  • The Leaf Game
  • Choosing an internet screen name
  • Bad Wolf
  • Review: Shaun Of The Dead
  • Continuity in The Simpsons
  • Lateral thinking puzzles, with solutions
  • The Zen Of Snorlax
  • Bagel incident
  • Cheese Vodka
  • Review: Equilibrium
  • Review: The Matrix Reloaded
  • Push Button Codes for Perfect Dark
  • Jitter
  • Making an F-16 from a cereal box, some Scotch tape, and a penny
  • Review: The Dark Side Of The Sun
  • Things to do on a bouncy castle
  • What is the next number in the sequence 1, 1, 1, 1?
  • Review: The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker
  • Culture ship names
  • Mathematics is the surest way to immortality
  • When I am king, Linear Maths will be the first against the wall
  • Things to consider before applying to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
  • Videogame clichés
  • Sitting eating a bagel
  • So I found a pattern in the stock market
  • The Meal Game
  • The Penny Game
  • Okay, so I lied
  • My Perfect Dark times
  • Smash a bunch of elderly PRs
  • Non-update
  • World record!
  • *jaw drops*
  • See my entry into the Five Minute Club
  • Now is the winter of our discontent
  • The 100% Update
  • My First GE Update
  • Agent under 30:00!
  • My PD debut
  • My first PDE post
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