Digital Humanities Quarterly: Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther’s Original "Adventure" in Code and in Kentucky “Section 2 of this article is a formal examination of Crowther’s original source code files, offering, for the first time, a clear understanding of Crowther’s innovative blend of simulation and fantasy, as well as a better appreciation of the creative contributions of Woods. Section 3 compares the game to maps of the cave site, presents photographs of an excursion to Colossal Cave, and offers testimony from experienced cavers. These key sources – the code and the cave, analyzed here for the first time – establish that Crowther’s original was not only faithful to the geography of the real Colossal Cave, but was also a fantasy remediation of that site.”
Struggle. He had a Vulcan father and a human mother — so there’s great logic and deep emotion and a great struggle between the two poles. That’s a great gift to hand an actor. It’s a struggle we all go through. Leonard Nimoy, on Spock’s internal life. ‘‘Star Trek’’ exclusive: The Spocks speak! | Star Trek | The Q&A | Movies | Entertainment Weekly | 2
For a while, Mr. Hoogestraat, sitting at his computer, stares at an image of his avatar sitting at his computer. Is This Man Cheating on His Wife? - WSJ.com
The visual voicemail is something that made me realize just how bad voicemail was until now, and just how accommodating we’ve become of truly wretched UIs. Information Week: Review: Two Weeks With An iPhone
I think it’s important, even now, to look at the ways African-American people tried to carve out a place for themselves in the Reconstruction period. It took an enormous amount of imagination and courage to do that, and it’s something people need to know and understand. The Kingdom of the Happy Land was a community founded by freed slaves in the western Carolinas mountains at the end of the Civil War. What remains is a small pile of stones, the remnants of a chimney.
These tips for keeping distracting people out of your office appeal to the productive misanthrope in me.
A lot of people who are down on the river a lot, they know who I am. They’re like, “Hey that’s the trash man.” And people come up to you, and they are like: “That’s so great that you’re picking up trash. How can I get involved?” And I’m like, “You see some trash, pick it up.” First Person Singular: Ezra Duong-Van, Volunteer with Potomac Riverkeeper - washingtonpost.com
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The Femmes were eating dinner at Doyle’s Seafood in Sydney. Ritchie ate a live lobster served sashimi style. When Gano saw the arms of the lobster waving around while Ritchie munched the raw flesh he called a taxi and went back to the hotel. The next day Gano announced he was becoming a vegetarian and has never eaten meat since then. VIOLENT FEMMES Band Info is full of tales seemingly too good to be true.
I did a recipe in “Red, White and Greens” for Pasta Poma Sarde al Mare: Pasta With Sardines at Sea. It’s a concept that I love. It means they’re in the sea – and not in the dish, which is vegetarian. Sometimes the Best Ingredient Is the One That Isn’t There - washingtonpost.com
Freakonomics Blog: If Public Libraries Didn’t Exist, Could You Start One Today?
Given the current state of debate about intellectual property, can you imagine modern publishers being willing to sell one copy of a book and then have the owner let an unlimited number of strangers borrow it? (via librarian.net by Jessamyn)
I just finished reading Book 7 and am now back online. apophenia: processing Harry Potter
NPR : Dean Reed: The Man Who Rocked the Iron Curtain — NPR’s Talk of the Nation with Reggie Nadelson, author of Dean Reed biography Comrade Rockstar.
Binary America: Split in Two by A Digital Divide - washingtonpost.com
Declare the Internet a public good in the same way we think of water, electricity, highways.
I’ve been honestly kind of freaking out about the spoilers this week. Eager for Harry and ‘The Hallows’ - washingtonpost.com
randomwalks/dj: David’s reblog is one of the only sites I can think of which I trust not to spoil my weekend.
Macintouch Reader Reports: iPhone
With the earbuds in, using the phone function, the caller’s voice is now comfortably in the middle of my head, in the center of my aural space. This makes talking on the phone SO much easier, since I don’t have to automatically shift my attention to one ear, and exclude the other. It feels like telepathy, really.
What a dramatic change in how I talk, done so simply, and found so unexpectedly…
“Fixing a small iPhone annoyance” with a bookmarklet which opens links in new windows.
Trying to schedule your sequestration this weekend so the end of Harry Potter isn’t spoiled for you? Me too. Let’s see. The book will be 784 pages, and I read about 300 words per minute. (How Many Words-Per-Minute Do You Read?) Now if I had a copy of one of the Harry Potter hardcovers handy, I’d count a few pages to get a figure for words per page. Anybody got a good guess?
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To do what I’m called to do, I need to have a human body. I live in a body in order to bring man closer to God.
This is the first time I have been needed in 2,000 years. This is a critical point. Only when mankind becomes one family on Earth will the doors to the universe become open to them. Seventeen years ago, a young man in Siberia realized he was the second coming of Christ.