Monthly Archives: September 2004

Call of Cthulhu Rules Booklet: free download

Now, I could tell you how cool it was in Rome. Or, how much work I’m doing right now. But, I have no time for that, now is the time to report about Chaosium publishing a free rules booklet as a PDF download. Their idea is to convert the masses into buying products from the Call of [...]
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OpenCourseWare

MIT delivers free knowledge in the form of their OpenCourseWare portal. a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT’s mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT’s values of excellence, innovation, and leadership. MIT OCW: Is a [...]
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EFF pushing BBC into CC’ing their content

Electronic Frontier Foundation Supports BBC’s “Creative Archive” – a press release telling us about the push from EFF to influence the UK government to Creative Commons the whole back-catalogue of the BBC. Imagine that. Cut’n paste. Mix’n match. Re-use. Remix. (Oh, that all sounded very mid-90s. I’ll stop now.) The prospect seems rather bright, though. I’d [...]
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Google sets, again

I am so impressed with Google sets, where I searched for these terms. I typed in the titles of a few big RPG products, and I was a amazed at the set Google Sets could produce. Very nice. Might be handy for idea-zapping with yourself.
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Free Danish university tool

This here is a report on a piece of Danish software called Scribo which is learning tool for those who are writing academia for the first time. It is only compatible with Win95/98.
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My man Fred

He is not an addict, he has no criminal record, and he is mentally stable. Someone made a really, really bad photo here.
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Blog software: bBlog and Snurf

A PHP implementation called [bBlog](http://www.bblog.com/about.php) is [Smary](http://smarty.php.net/)-centric. Neat. Look also at [Snurf](http://bdash.bluewire.net.nz/2004/08/02/snurf-a-python-based-blogging-system/), which is a Python-based blogging system. Snurf’s designer calls attention to [a W3 document](http://www.w3.org/TR/chips/) about problems any blog designer, or CMS designer could run into. He also [points out in a blog entry](http://bdash.bluewire.net.nz/2004/07/28/new-website-backend/) the problems he had with bBlog, what made him hack his [...]
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Evil humour and 80s Movies

[Vice Guide to Everything](http://www.viceland.com/issues/v11n7/htdocs/the_vice.php) was weird. The world becomes clear, in a sexist fashion. If more people thought these exact things about these things, what a world. Tiresome. Ah, but this here was funny: [The Ruthless Guide to 80s Action](http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/80saction/80saction.html) collects the greatest 80s movies from 1980-1992. And some goodies are there. Big sweaty men! Big noisy guns! [...]
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Accessible FORMs

The article ["An Accessible Method of Hiding HTML Content"](http://www.webaim.org/techniques/articles/hiddentext) shows some problems with screen readers, that is tools for those with visual disabilities. When creating websites for *everyone*, the small things matter.
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A Deleuze blog

[Intermezzo](http://www.aquasonido.net/current/) blogs his progress through Gilles Deleuze’s “A Thousand Plateaus”. He mentioned it in an Orkut group as an emergent trend amongst bloggers. I might do that someday: and all you see me type is some inane logging of what I read: I, an automaton of thought. Still, the idea of “blog as tool for [...]
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