- Reading A Book More Than Once Has Mental Health Benefits | The Mary Sue
- Introducing Playfic – Waxy.org
One for the "when I've got some spare time" file. If it really is as easy to generate interactive fiction as the example here makes it look, then I might take a serious stab at it one of these days.
- Why Mass Effect is the Most Important Science Fiction Universe of Our Generation | Pop Bioethics
So anyone that's spoken to me in the last couple of weeks knows I'm a bit obsessed with Mass Effect. This article does a really good job or articulating a lot of the reasons why. It does contain (generally broad picture) spoilers (with one or two specifics), so if you haven't played them, and think you might yet do so, you should avoid it until you have. But if you have played it, or aren't planning to, and are at all interested in SF, or in issues regarding representation of minorities in media, or in the potential of games as storytelling media, then I recommend reading this.
Tag: existentialism
Bookmarks for July 8, 2009
- Alex's Stuff – Why web design sucks in '09
Look, I know I go on a lot about IE, and most of you are sick of it, but the gods honest truth is that using IE actively stifles innovation on the internet, because we have to spend so much time working out how to support it that we don't have the time or budget to get on with anything really interesting. Until Microsoft either take the web seriously enough to implement some proper fucking standards, then using IE is actively hindering the rest of us getting on with inventing the future. Even if you don't care about viruses, please stop it, or urge the people who are making you use it to stop it – I will happily provide supporting documents to counter *any* or their arguments about "business" or "security" reasons.
- Just for Laughs -Jean Paul Satre's Lost Cookbook
"Still working on the omelet. There have been stumbling blocks. I keep creating omelets one after another, like soldiers marching into the sea, but each one seems empty, hollow, like stone. I want to create an omelet that expresses the meaninglessness of existence, and instead they taste like cheese. I look at them on the plate, but they do not look back. Tried eating them with the lights off. It did not help. Malraux suggested paprika."
Bookmarks for February 25, 2008
- Developer’s Guide – Google Chart API
This might come in handy at some future point – I’ve been working on a graph-heavy project for a client, and it would have been ace to have this available when we started.
- garfield minus garfield
They say: “Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?”
They’re right, and it’s superb. - List of Cheatsheets
Most programmers I know have one or two of these to hand most of the time. I’d like to take time to go through them, anhd work out which ones best fit my needs.
- Tip: Prevent iPhoto from opening when you plug in your iPhone – (37signals)
The camera on the phone is for quickblogging while out and about, and I email the pics I want off it so it’s a pain to have to close iphoto every time I plug the thing in. Here’s how to stop it.