Craig Grannell
@craiggrannell.bsky.social
Writer for hire. Mostly tech, Apple, games, retrogaming, design. Smashes out words for Stuff, Wired, TapSmart and others. He/him. GF/DF. Likes Lego and Mini Schnauzers. Email: hello at craiggrannell dot com // https://linktr.ee/craiggrannell
I guess Massimo Belardinelli was a fan of Battlestar Galactica back in the day.
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I guess Massimo Belardinelli was a fan of Battlestar Galactica back in the day.
My current two office Zoids are a 1980s Mammoth and a 1990s Ultrasaurus. (I always loved sauropods!)
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
My current two office Zoids are a 1980s Mammoth and a 1990s Ultrasaurus. (I always loved sauropods!)
I am very tired and this sequence in my feed briefly confused me.
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I am very tired and this sequence in my feed briefly confused me.
Photo of current status of Betteridge’s Law machine.
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Photo of current status of Betteridge’s Law machine.
My town, looking like a sci-fi movie earlier.
November 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
My town, looking like a sci-fi movie earlier.
Met Office old (left) vs new (right). Information density: gone. Symbol design: worse. Unnecessary acres of white space: present.
It looks like Temu Yahoo! Weather now.
It looks like Temu Yahoo! Weather now.
October 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Met Office old (left) vs new (right). Information density: gone. Symbol design: worse. Unnecessary acres of white space: present.
It looks like Temu Yahoo! Weather now.
It looks like Temu Yahoo! Weather now.
Device 6 is the best iPad game ever made. Although I should note these games aren’t lost to us… yet.
October 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Device 6 is the best iPad game ever made. Although I should note these games aren’t lost to us… yet.
And then, unfortunately, history repeated itself last summer.
October 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
And then, unfortunately, history repeated itself last summer.
It’s Brexit all over again.
October 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It’s Brexit all over again.
I always liked this strip but the second set of stories reads SO much better collected. In the Prog, I thought they were fine. Quite good, even. But these two hardcovers are superb. As you can see, mine is also on the shelf!
October 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I always liked this strip but the second set of stories reads SO much better collected. In the Prog, I thought they were fine. Quite good, even. But these two hardcovers are superb. As you can see, mine is also on the shelf!
Vast numbers of CDs, you say?
October 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Vast numbers of CDs, you say?
Huh. Found a free gift inside issue two. (Issue one didn’t have its one, alas.)
October 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Huh. Found a free gift inside issue two. (Issue one didn’t have its one, alas.)
@stevewmorris.bsky.social Tonight’s reading is a little bit different. :D
October 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
@stevewmorris.bsky.social Tonight’s reading is a little bit different. :D
Unless it’s the “don’t know” 6%, which is me. Although even on desktop, it’s usually dozens. Add in my mobile devices and, er, well. (This is restrained for me on iPhone!)
October 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Unless it’s the “don’t know” 6%, which is me. Although even on desktop, it’s usually dozens. Add in my mobile devices and, er, well. (This is restrained for me on iPhone!)
Not bad seats. :D
Looking forward to this. (Doubly so having booked the tickets last year and originally thinking they were for Oct 2024!)
Looking forward to this. (Doubly so having booked the tickets last year and originally thinking they were for Oct 2024!)
October 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Not bad seats. :D
Looking forward to this. (Doubly so having booked the tickets last year and originally thinking they were for Oct 2024!)
Looking forward to this. (Doubly so having booked the tickets last year and originally thinking they were for Oct 2024!)
What I want is these emulated versions of Space Invaders to look more like this.
September 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
What I want is these emulated versions of Space Invaders to look more like this.
I don’t have any baby goats dancing, but I can give you a quietly snoozing koala?
September 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I don’t have any baby goats dancing, but I can give you a quietly snoozing koala?
Back to fab covers again. Another genius. Which reminds me… I need to pick up Mick’s second Apex Edition. (I only have the first.)
September 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Back to fab covers again. Another genius. Which reminds me… I need to pick up Mick’s second Apex Edition. (I only have the first.)
Alan Grant must have been having a whale of a time with this stuff back then.
September 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Alan Grant must have been having a whale of a time with this stuff back then.
@stevewmorris.bsky.social Things have certainly changed from the old days of Dredd.
September 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
@stevewmorris.bsky.social Things have certainly changed from the old days of Dredd.
Kinda wish I could wave a magic wand and have this happen in 2029. (This is, please note, absolutely not any kind of prediction. I wouldn’t dare to hope the British public could ever do something like this under FPTP.)
September 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Kinda wish I could wave a magic wand and have this happen in 2029. (This is, please note, absolutely not any kind of prediction. I wouldn’t dare to hope the British public could ever do something like this under FPTP.)