damerell

Many of these answers are woefully inadequate.


Ansible refers to Dave Langford's multiply-Hugoed monthly SF fanzine. It's a useful mix of an events calendar, births and deaths (mostly deaths, alas), and funnies. It's also a term for FTL communications devices in lots of SF.
B-movie was a goth club in London. It was really good, with lots of old faces from the Slimelight. Sadly, however, a venue change gradually strangled it to death.
Car-free is fairly self-explanatory. I think private motor cars are a blight on society. As such, it would be a bit hypocritical for me to use them, and I don't have room for any new vices.
Discordianism is not a spoof religion at all, oh no. Anyway, I hear it works even if you don't believe in it.
Elite is Braben and Bell's classic videogame from 1984, years ahead of its time. Space trading, open ended universe through procedural generation, 3D... it was like nothing anyone had seen before. Now Braben squats on the rights to stop anyone doing anything useful with them and promises to release Elite 4 some time before the heat death of the universe.
Gema is a round yellow character from Digi Charat, long suffering and put upon. weds and I invented^W discovered a vast quantity of additional facts about gemas, including their great love of beer.
Irn-bru is a very odd orange drink from Scotland which makes a serviceable hangover cure.
NetHack is a roguelike game. The first one's free. Actually, they're all free, which makes it very dangerous. What is a roguelike game? Well, it's a game like Rogue, oh soddit, you can use Wikipedia.
Ranting is something I love to do.
Real ale is something I like to drink. Traditionally British beer is kept with live yeast in the cask where it undergoes a secondary fermentation. It is served cool, but not cold, in order that you can taste it. American beer is served icy cold for a related reason.