The Greys

It’s taken a long time to get there, but Google are now indexing the content of SVG files.
SVG is a vector graphics format which is similar in structure to the code that makes up an HTML web page. As well as the obvious graphical elements, SVG files often also include text (such as the speech [...]

There are two people responsible for The Greys, and the other one – Vince – had a landmark birthday (that he doesn’t like to talk about) at the weekend. Vince and I don’t usually buy presents for each other – he generally forgets my birthday (despite it being the day before his daughter’s), and I [...]

If you’re a fan of classic sci-fi TV shows – and let’s face it, if you’ve ended up here then there’s a good chance that you are – check out the Sci-fi Airshow website. I just hope they find the time to add The Liberator to their collection at some point, as everyone knows it’s [...]

After the first couple of episodes of FlashForward I came to the conclusion that most of the characters were complete idiots. Now that I’ve watched the whole series, I can honestly say that my opinion of the characters hasn’t changed much: they’re still idiots.
That said, by the time it finished, I was actually quite enjoying [...]

I’ve just got back from Collectormania in Milton Keynes, where the staff were kind enough to put some of our flyers out.
If you’ve come to this site as a result of getting a flyer there, first let me thank you for taking the time to have a look. Beyond that, here is the quick potted [...]

This is nominally a sci-fi based site – but sci-fi and fantasy are essentially the same thing, it’s just the mechanics that differ. Sci-fi has lightsabers, force fields and slave girls in metal bikinis. Fantasy has swords, magic spells… and slave girls in metal bikinis. As Arthur C Clarke famously wrote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology [...]

The winners for this year’s Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase have been announced, and unfortunately (for us, at least) our submission, “Ubuntufied Flying Object” didn’t make the cut (even after a quick change of clothes). Congratulations to the two guys who did get in, and whose works will be gracing many thousands of ISO downloads come [...]

Microsoft recently released a developer preview of what is to come in Internet Explorer 9, and I’m pleased to say that they’re (finally) starting to seriously catch up with all the other browser manufacturers when it comes to modern web standards support.
Of particular relevance to this site is that they will (finally) support SVG natively [...]

It appears that our original “Ubuntufied Flying Object” comic has been translated into Spanish.
We’re more than happy to have our comics translated – but it’s a shame that the translator only did half a job. We make the SVG files for our comics available so that anyone can translate them properly – by replacing the [...]

Our most recent comic strip, Ubuntufied Flying Object, was also our submission to the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase. We decided to go with a Ubuntu-themed comic, with a bonus punchline of “Linux for human sentient beings”, based on the wordmark and tagline that Ubuntu has used for the past six years.
Of course Murphy’s law has [...]