Rayman Origins brings Rayman back where he belongs: the world of 2D platforming. When I saw the game for the first time at this year's E3, I knew it was going to be something special, but I also knew it was going to be hard to find an audience during the release-packed month of November.

The game is beautiful, and since that beauty comes from the animation and art style, it's going to look good a week from now, and just as good five years from now. 2D animation in video games relies on artists to look good, not just on visual effects that date a game to a particular generation.

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This cartoon by Clay Bennett from The Chattanooga Times Free Press relates to the Greek debt crisis. The various euro zone countries are portrayed as statues. Greece is a discus thrower, preparing to throw a discus marked 'debt'. The other countries are cowering in fear.

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A nice visual metaphor for the threat which Greek debt poses for the rest of the EU.

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Computer scientists from Sweden and the United States have applied modern-day, statistical translation techniques—the sort that are used in Google Translate—to decode a 250-year old secret message.

The original document, nicknamed the Copiale Cipher, was written in the late 18th century and found in the East Berlin Academy after the Cold War. It's since been kept in a private collection, and the 105-page, slightly yellowed tome has withheld its secrets ever since.

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The OccupyLSX protest camp celebrates its first week today with a variety of activities. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for St Paul’s Cathedral which was forced to closelast week over safety fears.

Although events have remained peaceful, the Dean of St Paul’s has asked for the protesters to withdraw and allow them to continue normal service, citing fire, health and safety issues. Occupy disagree, expressing in a statement on their website that they had done everything they could to accommodate the Cathedral and reiterating their intent to stay put.

Today’s anniversary celebration included an invitation to come and meet the people involved with the protest (an offer already taken up by the Guardian who sent a reporter down to spend the night and exchange witticisms with passersby), a public assembly with updates from Occupiers around the globe, a roundtable discussion on the economic state of the nation and an address by writer and activist Nawal el Saadawi from Tahrir Square. It will not involve donations to St Paul’s though, according to this somewhat nose-thumbing statement from Occupy:

We also understand that some individuals were in the process of arranging for a contribution to be made to St Paul’s in recognition of their hospitality. It is a shame the Cathedral authorities have decided to take this action before those preparations came to fruition, as we expected them to in the next 12 hours.

Boris Johnson and David Cameron have also been issued with an open invitation, though we suspect the protesters may have a long wait. Though taking into account the notoriously enduring peace camp at Parliament Square and the Occupy protesters’ determination to remain indefinitely, time could be on their side.