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www.kickstarter.com/projects/2… This is a new artistic maze puzzle book from Matthew Haussler of www.matthewsmazes.com . It's just passed the 50% mark with 10 days to go and very much deserves to hit its $3500 target. The book itself is just a $25 pledge, with an astonishingly generous $5 international shipping fee for non-US backers.

Because three years between journal updates is apparently long enough. Anyway, I'm still working on maze 200, but I also wanted to plug a kickstarter project I backed today on a similar theme to my work here-

www.kickstarter.com/projects/m…

These look like really well done pieces and well deserving of some love and funding.

...And I've started uploading my mazes here. They'll keep coming so enjoy.

Seeing as, aside from the man with the plan (and occasionally a tan) Dan, I haven't received ANY comments, I think I'll make a journal entry with the main objective being to get people actually reading my stuff (couple of graphic things in there too. I think).

Scarlet Blades has now reached Chapter 14 and there's also a preamble for a story that's "like one of those text-based adventures you'd find on the Speccy or summat". It's called "The Tower" and it's something that I actually literally dreamt up one night.

Envoy!

Ian Blair's speech, as transcribed by the BBC- news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4443386…

Aside from being hugley London-centric, there are massive issues with this speech.

1) 90% of Britain's police force to remain unarmed.

REMAIN UNARMED!? What the fuck is this PC pansy [i]thinking[/i]? We need 90%, if not more, of Britain's police [b]armed[/b] and armed to the teeth. You don't stop terrorists by shouting "oy you, stop" and blowing a whistle. You stop terrorists by putting bullets in their heads and leaving them to rot on the streets.

2) a target figure of 40% of police officers to come from ethnic minorities.

Does this include the rapidly-shrinking ethnic group called the white person? Because I refuse to believe that 24 million UK citizens are from an ethnic "minority". Again, this is London-centricism at its worst- I was looking up the geography of Lincolnshire tonight. 98.5% of its population is of caucasian background [1]. My brother was obviously lucky to get a job as a cop when he did- if he'd waited any longer, Papa Lazarou would've been a more likely candidate than him.

Okay, okay, I know, but the more of this ridiculous political correctness I see, the more and more leaning toward the right I do.

[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolns…