James Fenimore Cooper’s birthday
I was reading on the wires last week about an idea being put forward by a Scottish university. Apparently the academic leaders there are trying to encourage art students to get involved in the design of computer games with a project called ‘Dare to be Digital’. Personally I think the combination of students, art and computer games could be dangerous; imagine the titles they’d come up with after a few absinthe-fuelled brainstorming sessions. No son of mine is going to play Van Gogh Theft Auto or Jackson Pollock Ice Hockey when they come out on PlayStation 2.