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Bookmarks for August 6th through September 8th

paperclypse — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:08:59 +0000

These are my links for August 6th through September 8th:

FreeMarket « Project Donut – A fun looking RPG
kung fu grippe — Color, Photos, and One Fuzzy Little Boy in a Field – This is an amazing early color photo.
The Mongoliad – Neal Stephenson's newest project.
Neighbor-to-Neighbor Time Banks – This is a pretty interesting idea. Looks like it might be worth looking into more. ++Local community stuff.
Lightspeed Magazine | Fiction – A nice looking online sci-fi magazine.
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

Bookmarks for July 27th through July 29th

paperclypse — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:04:30 +0000

These are my links for July 27th through July 29th:

Mac Tonnies recommended Nonfiction Booklists – A bunch of esoterica.
AGON: Competitive Roleplaying in Ancient Greece – Looks interesting.
Risus: The Anything RPG – A simple little RPG system. Quick and dirty.
Makers Tile Game « catalog « IdiotsBooks – Pretty sweet "puzzle" from Doctorow's novel MAKERS
How to Host a Dungeon – Pretty neat little dungeon generating game.
Wacchen: A nice place to watch video – Wacchen – Like Instapaper for video… I guess
How-To: Give Your Old iPhone New Life With Prepaid Data and Minutes –

Bookmarks for June 8th through June 21st

paperclypse — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:07:11 +0000

These are my links for June 8th through June 21st:

Pixel Art Gets a YouTube Documentary [VIDEO] – Looks interesting.
Surrealism Server: Surrealist Compliments For All – A source of endless entertainment.
How to Set Up OpenID on Your Own Domain – Still trying to understand this OpenID stuff….
handprint : color temperature – I don't know who Bruce MacEvoy is, but he's written this amazing essay on color temperature.
Tove Janssons HOBBIT illustrations – Pretty excellent
City of Heroes Forums – View Single Post – Issue 17 (April 28) Known Issues – Hopefully this will fix the freaking crashing issue.

Max Stories: So Many Rockets

shawn — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:27:42 +0000

There were lots of scary monster rockets. I can’t remember much about them, except that they liked chocolate. They did NOT land on a chocolate planet, but they did keep chocolate around for snacks. They would fly all around, and when they met each other they would say things like, “Hello scary monster rocket, how do you do?” and “I’m doing very well, thank you. And yourself?”

On Earth, there was a rocket in the junkyard. One day, a boy walked by and saw the rocket in the junkyard. The rocket was lonely. The little boy ran to get all of his friends, and the painted the rocket red. Bright red. And then they took the rocket home.

The rocket said, “We can all go flying in outer space now!” but the boy said, no. They had something else to do. But I can’t remember what that was, because I think I fell asleep.

Max Stories: Bill the Monkey and Bob the Dog (Part N)

paperclypse — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:58:36 +0000

Bill the Monkey said, “Let’s go flying today. What do you want to fly?” Bob the Dog said, “Let’s go flying in pigeons.” So they went looking for pigeons. They found one on the street, and went flying with him. They flew to a castle, and then they played with a ping pong ball and paddle, but the bird flew away with their ping pong ball. The bird had a bag with a scary monster in it. The scary monster lived in the bag, because it was his house. The pigeon shook the bag to get the scary monster to come out. When it did, it looked all around for a snack. When it found a snack, it went back to its bag.

THE END

Max Stories: The Watercat

paperclypse — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:51:37 +0000

It’s a funny thing. There was this cat who liked to swim. His name was Watercat. Sistercat said, “But don’t you hate it when water gets in your eyes when you get your hair washed?” And Watercat said, “No. I just close my eyes up tight and the water doesn’t get in there.” And Sistercat said, “But when you go swimming in the pool, how do you see with your eyes shut tight?” Watercat said, “When I go swimming in the pool, I wear swimming goggles.” So Watercat took his swimming goggles and his swimming shorts and went to the swimming pool. First, he went to the locker room, and he put on his swimming shorts and his swimming goggles. Then he took a cleaning off shower. Watercat walked very carefully and slowly around the pool until he got to the high diving board. He waited patiently for his turn, and then climbed carefully up up up up the ladder to the top of the diving board. At the edge of the diving board, Watercat looked way way down, and he was scared a little bit, and excited a little bit. And then he jumped, and dove way way down, and landed in the water with a big splash that got everyone wet. But in the water there was a scary monster. The scary monster chased Watercat. Watercat swam as fast as he could and jumped out of the water. It’s a good thing Watercat could swim so fast.

THE END

Max Stories: The Hippo and the Toucan

shawn — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:38:17 +0000

Once there was a hippo. He was round, and had big flat teeth. A scary monster came around and said, “Rawr!” The hippo was scared and ran away. The scary monster chased the hippo. The hippo ran fast, but the scary monster ran faster. The hippo was so scared, that he climbed a tree. Even with his flat, flat feet, he climbed up a tree. But the scary monster climbed up right after him. At the top of the tree, the scary monster ate the hippo. He even ate the hippo’s flat, flat teeth. A toucan flew by. A beautiful toucan. The toucan saw the scary monster, and was scared a little bit. The toucan flew away. The scary monster changed to look like a toucan, and he said, “Hello toucan!” The toucan flew over to the scary monster and said, “You’re a beautiful toucan.” The toucan and the scary monster ate some peanuts and a banana.

THE END

Bookmarks for April 25th through May 21st

paperclypse — Tue, 25 May 2010 04:08:26 +0000

These are my links for April 25th through May 21st:

The Abominable Charles Christopher – Episode One – An interesting looking webcomic.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Annotations – Exhaustive list of references (note: it helps if you have the books handy)
Wolverine – Search Zappos.com – Brand of shoes highly recommended by AD.

Falling with a banana

paperclypse — Tue, 25 May 2010 03:53:23 +0000

Round and round the fountain he goes, barefoot and with a banana in one hand. I, feeding Alice on the grass.

It rained a lot and the puddle was deep and wide.

Round and round he goes, faster and faster.

Max come here, I say. He does. Let me roll up your pants so they don’t get wet, I say. Okay, he says, with a smile on his face.

Til whoosh! Splash! He slips and falls.

The entire back of his pants are wet.

I look over and Alice is pouring the baby food into her lap.

I take off Max’s pants, and round and round he goes.

He does slow down a bit at the puddle.

Bookmarks for February 21st through April 16th

paperclypse — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:01:02 +0000

These are my links for February 21st through April 16th:

Paul Krugman interview with Charlie Stross –
An Overview of International Science Fiction/Fantasy in 2009 –
Eschaton Lite – "The purpose of this document is to produce a playable version of the game Eschaton as presented in Infinite Jest."
DzignSpace :: Goodnight Forest Moon – Good Night Moon + Star Wars
500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Mark Twain at Stormfield, 1909 (Edison film) – Early film clip of Mark Twain walking toward the camera. Excellent.
Evolution for kids – Evolution toys. Looks fun-ish.
Neglected Books: the list – A list of great, though neglected, SF/F writers