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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
Do we believe this? Is there any reason the stores would put this information on the shelves rather than in a spreadsheet?
Photos comparing scenes from 1938 and today. Some heartbreakingly beautiful architecture was parkinglotized...
A nice walkthrough explaining a procedure that couldn't be more complicated and tedious if it tried
Inspired latvians stenciled successive frames of an animation onto various city surfaces then animated photos of their graffiti
Some incredible tools for converting opentype fonts into forms usable by TeX
Super neat utility to add omniweb-style prefix searching to the location textfield in safari
The adobe bookstore in the Mission will display all its books sorted by color for one week
A blog apparently devoted exclusively to criticism of the New Yorker and other nyc print media
Just ridiculously cool. The fact that it's useful may be thought by some to undermine said coolness, but I am willing to live with it.
Beyond surreal. A trippier Dark Castle recast as a lightly-interactive adventure game.
The bush campaign has declared referring to history illegal. The bombing will begin in 5 minutes...
Wow. That's an incredibly dramatic decline. It also says something that it's so staggering to see him speaking quickly and coherently in the 94 footage...
So is the obsessive accumulation of powers just to make up for (with a sledgehammer) incompetence? Or is there another reason...
God damn it's nice to see something actually inventive in the world of video games. Unsurprisingly Electronic Arts had nothing to do with it...
A truly beautiful animation, with politics that make me feel slightly better in these days of dread over the possibility of bush's reign continuing
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nifty coffeetable book on ancient PCs. Nice that the layout even looks like a mid-80s ad spread from Byte or NeXTWorld