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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
strikingly similar situation to what the music business is going through twenty years later
i'd thought they'd disappeared for good but the cassette archive maintainers are back
about as thrilling as finding another half hour of metropolis
the `multimedia' feature has great commentary too (plus animated maps of transit lines)
Bauhaus to Our House-style jeremiad dissing the new kids on the museum scene and calling out chain-artists.
nicely thought out flickr ui. really changes the way you interact with the data
radiohead performed by a zx spectrum + friends. beautifully done and perfectly filmed
gorgeous hi-res scans of some of the best pictograms ever. all hail otto
amazing use of old timekeeping mechanics to create a clock that's anything but typical
i really can't get enough of this infocom history stuff
nifty sortable interface for exploring timestamped photos
“by 2023 the number of stored bits will surpass Avogadro's number”
the typographic equivalent of ‘just between you and i’
realizing how great interactive fiction could be if it was capable of passing the turing test
air traffic control simulation. you very quickly discover how much smaller 7+-2 is than necessary.
deep voodoo. tell me how this is preferable to having a script that generates these?
onstad is asking questions about writing text adventures. can't wait to see the final result.
any glossy magazine article that talks about singular value decomposition is okay in my book.
argh, why did i lose the password for the brandeis proxy server, why? (awesome sparring scientist action in the comments)
author's journal from the development of the best game of the c64 era
640 modifier keys should be enough for anybody
from before the d.o.e. decided information begat thoughtcrime
Found
the noises that chip makes are so distinctive