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 …
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Mr. Jonsson & Mrs. Carbonelli
Mr. Jonsson & Mrs. Carbonelli Originally uploaded by Luisa Carbonelli. “Yup, we are happy”, is Luisa’s caption to the picture. So true. Thanks, all of you lovely people, for celebrating our love.
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, …
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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 …
Lightweight Copenhagen bus
Lightweight Copenhagen bus Originally uploaded by daen. Daen notes that we’re getting new buses, perhaps. I’d like to see how they’re different from the bus stock we now ride in. But hey, upgrades are cool.
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 …
No Criticism Allowed
No Criticism Allowed Originally uploaded by reinvented. Maybe something for upcoming [Fastaval](http://www.fastaval.dk).
French Fry-Encrusted Corndogs
John and My Brother with French Fry-Encrusted Corndogs Originally uploaded by newleypurnell. I needed to share this with you, but it’s not even my friends. Via [Jason Morningstar](http://www.meekmok.com/sassy/2006/02/06/bring-them-here-now/).
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. …