Posts from — October 2004

New Gaming Club More Than Just Fun and Games:
At Ohio University, student video-game enthusiasts are teaming with technology officers to design a sprawling computer game called “Project Asylum.” (The Athens News)

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this is one way to go about it…..

Coyote Craft – Web Development & Design, Lake Tahoe

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i hear these folks do good work.

goped () – video

who will win….. king of the underdogs.

The Chronicle: 10/29/2004: Video Games With a Political Message

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ian’s in the chronicle, he’s doing good work.

and see what he does with it….

Fixed WordPress:
Since Jeremy didn’t respond the way I had hoped to my request to fix Vector J!, my installation of Wordpress that I stopped using last spring, I figured I’d fix it myself. No asking questions, reading stupid manuals or searching…

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i did respond precisely the way he wanted me to… the problem was that he was not aware of his true wants yet…. all those false consciousnesses competing at once…..

Delicious Library:Delicious Library, via Julia (thanks, Julia!)
Run your very own library from your home or office using our impossibly simple interface. Delicious Library’s digital shelves act as a visual card-catalog of your books, movies, music and video games. A scan of a barcode is all Delicious Library needs to add an item to your digital shelves, downloading tons of info from the internet like the author, release date, current value, description, and even a high-resolution picture of the cover. Import your entire library using our exclusive full-speed iSight video barcode scanner, our Flic® Wireless Laser Bar Code Scanner, or (the slow way) entering the titles by hand. Once you have all of your items in your Mac, you can browse though your digital shelves, check stuff out to friends using Apple’s built-in Address Book and calendar, and find new items to read, watch, and play using Library’s recommendations.
Visual card-catalog, eh? This I gotta see.

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sounds nifty, but most of my books would have to be typed in i’d guess.

Play Supreme Court Survivor:
Anupam Chander (who is both a blogger and Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law) and JD student Ryan Walters have designed a little web site they call the Supreme Court Survivor game. Their objective is “to highlight the importance of the 2004 presidential election to the preservation of civil liberties in this country.”

Anupam, a charming person whom I met at a conference not so long ago, wrote me a nice note asking me to publicize it, so here it is.

There’s no doubt that the next President will shape the court for a long time: there are liberal, conservative and fence-sitting Justices who are likely to retire. But, cute as it is, I have to wonder whether this game is entirely in good taste, and if as a pure tactical matter it’s the best tool to raise consciousness about this critical issue. It seems to me that there’s some danger it might backfire given the Chief Justice’s coincidental illness.

Meanwhile, if there’s an easter egg in there, I can’t find it.
Update: When you tire of that one, and still want a political online game, you can play Enjoy the Draft’s Spring Break Fallujah: The Game. I am still stuck on the first level, myself.

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well, it is something to play i guess. i wish we could emphasize the importance in say the nyt and similar papers, but no one seems to care that much.

Wanted: A Few Good Blacklists:
This is ultimately one of those questons in the vein of “what’s the best kind of gas mask,” but the comment spam’s been coming fast and thick of late and Jay Allen’s centralized blacklist doesn’t seem to be getting updates:…

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what we need is a nice distributed list

Work on Brit Library’s Free Software archival crawler!:

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this is about the iipc, which i help to work on. http://netpreserve.org is the url