> We *are* as gods and might as well get good at it. Quote from the introduction of the [Whole Earth Catalog](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_earth_catalog). Today I learnt how to use my wok better: **”hot wok, cold oil”** was the book’s credo. That is, they excerpted a book on sale and I learnt from that. If the heat …
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Theatre success: Christofer Bocker
My old friend Christofer – a fellow web application programmer geek – has written a great play, won an award for it. This dramatic success came out of almost nowhere. He has written great prose before, I have read some (is that still unpublished?), but his theatrical experience is limited. [SVD](http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/kultur/did_10438665.asp), [Nummer](http://nummer.se/), and [Dramaten](http://www.dramaten.se/default.asp?id=9936) go …
Call for Papers: Seminar on Playing Roles
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.
Just started a file for time-tracking
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 …
Jason is My buddy
I am a role-playing guy. I meet and converse with my kind. Sometimes *my people* are successful, they meet with fame, recognition, &c. Makes me happy. Jason notes his role-playing scenario [The Shab-al-Hiri Roach](http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/The_Shab-al-Hiri_Roach.php) has become a *bona fide* hit among the independent luminaries. In this thread at influential role-playing online community The Forge, Ron …
Control your PEAR with PEAR_RemoteInstaller
An alpha release of this PEAR package caught my eye: PEAR_RemoteInstaller. > Originally part of the 1.4.0 new features, > remote installation through FTP is now its own package. > This package adds the commands “remote-install” “remote-upgrade” > “remote-uninstall” and “remote-upgrade-all” to the PEAR core. Neato.
Computer game: Arcanum
I visited Göteborg, Sweden, last weekend, and I talked with Anders about computer games. I tried to remember the title of Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, and Wikipedia found it for me. Meaty articles on computer games. Enjoy.
Eponymous
Skara as action figure. Via: David. Ardala is the name of Emperor Morbius’ girlfriend in the Buck Rogers universe. (These names are also placenames in West Sweden, where I grew up.)
Freeform role-playing in dictionary form
[Tobias](http://blog.wrigstad.com/) and I have now condensed our thoughts on role-playing in the form of [a wiki](http://jeepen.olle.ter.dk/wiki/doku.php), but that fails to attract others, being hard to read, follow and use. Especially off-line. The solution was to rewite some of the material and to collect it in one, accessible place. We had already bought [jeepen.org](http://blog.jeepen.org/), and set …