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Zero Punctuation : Painkiller
Yahtzee is a British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer with a sweet hat and a chip on his shoulder. When he isn't talking very fast into a headset mic he also designs freeware adventure games and writes the back page column for PC Gamer, who are too important to mention us. His personal site is www.fullyramblomatic.com. Yahtzee is a British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer with a sweet hat and a chip on his shoulder. When he isn't... more
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The Escapist : Zero Punctuation: Call of Duty 4
This week on Zero Punctuation, the most requested review of all time, Call of Duty 4.
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Maze escaper is arrested in Texas
Wow. HOW do they do it. We're not having money nicked off from politicians. Anyhow, A Maze escaper has been arrested at a border patrol in the United States, American officials have said.
He was arrested by officers at a border checkpoint in southern Texas on Monday night.
The US Border Patrol have refused to identify him, but said he was awaiting deportation.
It said he had been serving a 23-year prison sentence in Northern Ireland on charges of possessing a bomb and a firearm.
The man produced an out-of-date immigration document at the Sarita checkpoint near Brownsville.
The man was identified through fingerprinting after a search of his background through the Joint Terrorism Task Force and Interpol.
"The subject was arrested and is pending deportation proceedings back to his country of origin," said the US Border Patrol.
'Biggest search operation'
Ronald D. Vitiello, chief patrol agent for the Rio Grande Valley Sector, said: "The primary purpose of checkpoint operations is to support enhanced national security efforts that deter, detect and prevent the threat of further terrorist attacks against the United States.
"Consequently, law enforcement partnerships, coupled with Border Patrol checkpoint operation, continue to be a reliable means of detecting people who would attempt to enter the United States illegally and threaten the integrity of border security."
38 republican prisoners escaped from the Maze in 1983
The biggest jail break in the UK history took place from the high security Maze prison on 25 September 1983. On that day 38 republican prisoners escaped.
Prison officer James Ferris died of a heart attack after being stabbed while attempting to stop the jail break.
Security forces mounted the biggest search operation Northern Ireland had ever seen within minutes of the escape.
Ten of the prisoners were recaptured in the first few hours, but the remainder went on the run.
In 1997, a republican prisoner escaped from the jail disguised as a woman, during a Christmas party.
The Maze prison closed in September 2000 as a result of the Good Friday Agreement's early release scheme. Wow. HOW do they do it. We're not having money nicked off from politicians. Anyhow, A Maze escaper has been arrested at a border ... more -
How to Be a Wizard: The art of geocaching
The description of my first cache read "Ammo box hidden in the woods." The person who hid it provided clues, suggesting the cache was in a wood, near a pond, close by my house. Using the GPS one night, I determined that, yes, the coordinates were somewhere in the something-acre wood, and no, I would not be going in there at night. But I had a point of reference. I knew it was somewhere to the west of me. Returning during the daylight hours with a friend ("Never go off into the woods or remote locations without a partner," says the website, "especially when Geocaching. We don't want you focusing on your GPS unit and walking off a cliff."), I circled around to the west of the woods, and, like magic, my GPS indicated the cache was now to my east. We started walking. The description of my first cache read "Ammo box hidden in the woods." The person who hid it provided clues, suggesting the ... more
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Clive Barker's Jericho
This week's Zero Punctuation takes a long, bloody look at Clive Barker's Jericho (by Clive Barker).
Yahtzee is a British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer with a sweet hat and a chip on his shoulder. When he isn't talking very fast into a headset mic he also designs freeware adventure games and does the occasional feature for Australia's Hyper Magazine. This week's Zero Punctuation takes a long, bloody look at Clive Barker's Jericho (by Clive Barker). ... more
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