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Infocom-related mishaps
dept. of side projects
Corduroy is a Python library for using CouchDB with Tornado.
book cover doodle
i have no idea why i made this…
scale error
coordinate transforms will always be a trial and error affair i'm afraid
the rules of the game
13 months and 11k lines of code later, i’ve finished up the choose your own adventure project. all told i ended up cataloging a dozen books from the early-to-mid 80s, looking for patterns in their construction and in the paths made by different readers through them.
these short, simple books had a surprisingly complicated structure with their interlocking pages & choices. as a kid the idea of writing one and keeping all those pages straight boggled my mind. what was lost on me at the time was that even a list of hundreds of page numbers can be comprehensible if it’s redrawn as a diagram. these days i feel like i approach everything that way.
so here is my look back at an obsession from my past, using graphical obsessions of the present to guide the way.
Bookmarks
Some photography that makes me very envious. Great stuff in the textural super-closeup/architectural vein
Cool. Now I don't have to enroll at MIT
Behind the scenes details about the awe inspiring Chris Ware/This American Life DVD
The best 2D platformer I've played in years. Makes me think back to Flood and some of the other Amiga games I wasted my youth on. (English translation only for PC so far...)
With all the hooplah over the New Games Journalism, I hope this blog gains a following. It's some of the smartest writing on games since the old days of Next Generation
Neat post, but more importantly points out there's a new DFW article in The Atlantic this month
An interview with the creator of the incredible NetNewsWire
Some very clever (and graphically amazing) soviet posters
metal cover versions of song from the soundtrack to Metroid (now featuring selections from Super Metroid as well)
So beautiful, even if it is relying on nostalgia to bring me to that conclusion
Telepathic control of lower lifeforms turns insects into your slaves...
Stealing the design language of 19th century botany plates to describe sockets, cords, and plugs.
William Gibson-style combination of impersonal, futuristic architecture made interesting by decay and human use (cf. image 27)
the question is whether the structure of spacetime will warp with the two of them in one conversation like this...
Scans of blank cassette tapes going back decades. There's some truly gorgeous stuff here (mostly from the 70s) and some crimes against taste that are just beyond comprehension (80s natch)
This has to be the most beautiful cassette cover i've ever seen
Found
Some really beautiful (i.e., non-overdone) flash animations