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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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.
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. Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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) … Continue reading
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.
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 … Continue reading