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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Bookmarks for February 27th through February 29th

These are my links for February 27th through February 29th: Interview: The Making Of Dwarf Fortress – Dwarf Fortress is the most interesting game I've come across in a long time. Too bad the learning curve knocks you on your ass. garfield minus garfield – ….wow. A brilliant use of absence. Archisuits – Jogging suits [...]

Memories of Max

I’m well aware that these might only be of interest to me, but I’ve decided that I need to write down what I remember about Max so that I don’t forget it later. Hey, he might be interested in it too. –We counted 1234 over and over again through Sarah’s contractions. Kat said, “This baby’ll [...]

Bookmarks for February 24th through February 27th

These are my links for February 24th through February 27th: Chyrp – blog engine – Hell, I don't know if this IS a better "blogging engine" but I love love love their little character/mascot bird thing. The Fall: What The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Movie Could Have Been – This looks like it could be [...]

Bookmarks for February 23rd through February 24th

These are my links for February 23rd through February 24th: Locus Online: Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading: 2007 – A huuuuge list of science fiction and fantasy recommendations from 2007. (That is, published in 2007.) Андрей Кузнецов – (Andre Kooznetsov) – The page is all in russian, but deciphering what those images ARE is where all [...]

George Saunders’ The Braindead Megaphone: Essays

Huck and Tom represent two viable models of the American Character. They exist side by side in every American and every American action. America is, and always has been, undecided about whether it will be the United States of Tom or the United States of Huck. The United States of Tom looks at misery and [...]

links for 2008-02-22

Pandagon :: Then democracy asserted itself, just like that :: February :: 2008 This is pretty sweet. Thank god for college students! (tags: democracy inspirational)

links for 2008-02-21

Meet iPaper | Scribd Well, it certainly looks slicker than PDFs do….. interesting. Could be worth checking out (tags: documents publishing web flash) My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (Book) in Computers & Internet Whee. A free ebook. And all about LambdaMOO, which I use to frequent, long [...]

links for 2008-02-20

CRIME AND PUZZLEMENT John Perry Barlowe on the early “internet”. (tags: toread reference history internet) “This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them” (tags: visualization datasets wikis reference) Skyrates – online trading game An interesting game of delayed gratification. Travel in the game (a core mechanic) takes actual time [...]

links for 2008-02-19

Emerson on the Ravages of Time “We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent was a youthful effervescence which we have now lost.” Sad. (tags: writing quotes emerson) A really simple web thing for keeping track of things i want [...]

links for 2008-02-17

Skip the Tuition: 100 Free Podcasts from the Best Colleges in the World | OEDb (tags: education free podcasts downloads) John Cleese’s “Letter to America” “Dear Citizens of America, In view of your failure to elect a competent President and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective [...]