Finished reading the Baroque Cycle

A trilogy of brick-shaped paperback books: that is what the Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle is. Having conquered it feels good. It’s been a part of my list at 43 things (which as of now only consists of 12 items, when the “Finish the Baroque Cycle” is checked off) for a long time. Now I look …

Bad hat? Just wrong genre

Bad hat Originally uploaded by Macmcmac. **Dogs in the Vineyard**, the Early-West Mormon gunslinger role-playing game has not yet larp-ified, to my meagre knowledge. The picture here, snipped from Flickr, is an excerpt from something completely different. For which the player’s outfit might be outright wrong. But: for a Mormon Judgment game, this would be …

Peter Brodersen creates GoogleMaps with streets for Denmark

Us Euros have been envious of the US/Canada GoogleMaps situation for quite a while. The option “satellite image” has been all we had for a while, and the other choices “map” and “hybrid overlay” have been missing for our part of the globe. [Peter Rukavina](http://ruk.ca/)’s tales of integrating GoogleMaps with existing data have been riveting, …

Test games, help this academic

Anders Højsted, Danish role-player and game researcher, needs a hand. A few good gamers are needed, to test some game-related things for his final paper. If you know someone who fits these requirements, or fit them yourself, don’t hesitate to phone Anders: 50 53 15 38 or email andersh@itu.dk. > Testere søges! > Vi er …

playsh: Flickr is a Glidr

Flickr is a Glidr Originally uploaded by ptufts. Coders Matt Webb and Ben Cerveny are digital age heroes, making a highly interesting thing with playsh, **the playful shell**. Matt [talks about it in his blog](http://interconnected.org/home/2006/03/15/playsh). Tech keywords: the Python programming language, the Twisted framework, fragments of Zope framework, parts of MOO game software LamdaMOO, SSH …

Mongrel: funky server

The [Mongrel](http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel/) web server project, in Ruby, by Zed Shaw, is taking shape. With some help from Luis Lavena, Zed’s making his lovely Mongrel run on win32, as a Windows service. The last mail I read at the mongrel-users mailing list had Zed oohing and aahing over the Ruby win32 library: Otherwise it’s incredibly cool. …