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Wonderful paper about the creation and development of Crowther’s “Adventure”, and also the real Colossal Cave in Mammoth, which almost certainly inspired the geography of the game-cave.
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“The challenge is to create the openness needed for good ideas to surface, while simultaneously cultivating the feedback and criticism necessary to resolve open issues.” Tell me about it.
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What it says on the tin. Delightful. “You’re a piece of work, Charlie Branaski… you try to fly your kite, you play baseball, you drink all night and you’re lousy at all of it.”
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Gosu is a 2D game development library for the Ruby and C++ programming languages, available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
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Some useful examples for using RSpec with controllers.
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pdf-to-html conversion utility, in C.
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“…HG Wells, had [this] huge, leisurely ‘here and [now]’ from which to contemplate what might happen. Wells knew exactly where he was and knew he was at the centre of things.’ Wonderful William Gibson quotation.
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“He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden”.
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Stupid U3 software. Storage media should not be autoloading software or using stealth-partitions, and it shouldn’t want Windows to uninstall it. Naughty.
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jCodeViewer is a jQuery plugin which allows you to turn any div, textarea or pre tag into a simple Code viewer in an inobtrusive manner.
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“making fun of bad punctuation since 2005”.
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Long, perhaps overlong, interview with Gillen on Phonogram, but there’s some good stuff in there.
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“Nintendo hasn’t truly gone backwards technologically. It has simply innovated in a different way.” Good Forbes piece pulling together the usual threads on what Sony’s really up against.
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“This is a game that requires explanation. That statement is already an admission of failure”. A game that simulates the nature of a marriage through abstract, rather than realistic, means.
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“For Mac users who want a simpler way to create lists. TaskPaper is a simple to-do list application that helps you stay organized. Unlike competing applications, TaskPaper is based on plain text files which offer you paper-like simplicity and ease of use.
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“…everyone’s got a fucking camera in their hand and, I don’t know, is there no sanctity left for live performance with going to a show and seeing it with your own eyes and remembering it?”
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Useful tutorial on using Low Pro to make forms accessible.
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brothercake does the CSS-redundancy malarkey but as a Firefox extension. Which is definitely more immediate/accesible than my version… but still only handles individual pages. Great to see the idea in so many formats, though.
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Impressive (if fixed-width) grid-based CSS framework. Looks natty; I should check it out, I feel.
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$99 desktop that has 4gb of internal storage and uses S3 for the rest. Distributed thin-ish clients, much like were promised in the golden age of Java. Etc, etc, etc.
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“European settlers found it difficult to accept that a continent as large as Australia could have no great rivers comparable to those of Africa or North and South America.” Beautiful, incorrect, cartography.
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Genius little flash game that looks a bit like a side-scrolling collect-em-shmup, but turns out to be something far more irritating and hilarious