Against entropy.
Hey, role-playing writing is hot these days. Now also: Call for Papers: Seminar on Playing Roles, held *for free*, people, in Tampere, Finland, March 23-24 in 2006. It is the fine folks from the [Hypermedia Lab](http://www.uta.fi/hyper/) at the U of Tampere who organize it. So, if you have a thought for a paper, and want …
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Danish role-playing author Peter Brodersen does some modern art out of American propaganda materials. Neat. **Update:** More art, now in the form of [a traffic analysis](http://cancan.ter.dk/mrtg/threat.level.html) of the Threat Level of the Homeland Something-something of the USA.
Using text files is a killer thing. See Hobix—a Ruby-driven, text-file oriented blog system. Or 43folders.com—a lot of the stuff on its wiki is just file-fiddling stuff. No binary formats. Tip for geeks: If you install the GNU coreutils for Windows you can do things like: pear list|grep XML PEAR is a PHP programming library …
For clarity: This offer is outdated, and this post is kept for archive reasons. Best of luck finding an apartment, folks. Bye. My friend Ladislaus is going to Copenhagen. He needs to find a place to stay in Copenhagen. And would like to let his apartment out to someone. Maybe that is you? > Am …
Gotta get me a keyboard with LEDs instead of normal keys. The keyboard can then show small images on the keys, or rather, inside them. Optimus keyboard is it. Special keyboard layouts like Photoshop and Quake are shown. I wonder when someone comes up with a “betterment” of `emacs`’s keybindinds. Via E Hammersley.
Moira, “modern fantasy” live-action role-playing game. It is already played, and here is the organizers’ letter to the involved. A kind of post-mortem. There are pictures, courtesy of Gabriel. > “All magic replaced by half-bad grainy photos with no focus. May give a hint on how this bizarre fairytale reality was manifested.” Joc told large …
Ladislaus Horatius skriver högst personligt och med ett härligt tilltal på Kalla linjen. Eftersom du kan läsa det här kan du också läsa mer personliga texter. Och hans idé om en salong: jag tänder på alla cylindrar. Fridens! (Och visst längtas det till Vadstena ibland.)
In the area of learning more Ruby and teaching others about its greatness, I did some uncovering yesterday: Shortly: RDoc is amazing. The :include: _somefile_ statement is a powerful way of keeping your README and your code rather separate. If that is what you want, then you can put the long, descriptive story about your …
Why The Lucky Stiff did it as FOSCON. His The Starry Afternoon session is documented in pictures at flickr, so you all can see what he looks like. (Ruby fans: Don’t miss shots of Rich Kilmer and Matz either!)
Me and Luisa found a few new hits in boardgaming during our vacation. ## Lost Cities Lost Cities is a two-player card game of exploring lost cities. A German design, without the use of language on the cards. Came with Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish translations of the short rules. Learning the game was a …