I am employed!
Stef's redesign is too cool.
Article on the only Kubrick film I haven't seen (well, post-"Killer's Kiss", anyway):
On first glance, Barry Lyndon seems to make the least sense of any Kubrick movie; juxtaposed against better-known, better-liked Kubrick movies, its very existence still seems incredible. But when you’re dealing with a major artist like Kubrick, sometimes the most anomalous choices reveal the most about the body of work.(Thanks Robot Wisdom.)
Echelon FAQ. (Thanks Dad.)
Huh. Brig is right: with the new Spyonit.com redesign, there is no way to add a new spy--at least not one that isn't in their meager browsable selection of pre-built spies.
The FAQ reads: "Add an Instant Spy using the box that appears at the
bottom of the Home page." But nothing like that appears on any page.
What the hell?
So you want to be a computer game developer? (Thanks Absolute Piffle.)
Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia. (Thanks Absolute Piffle.)
Occupational Outlook Handbook. (Thanks Absolute Piffle.)
Absolute Piffle. (Thanks Absolute Piffle.)
Happy Science Songs! (Thanks Pop Culture Junk Mail.)
You realize that BrainLog is just a metablog. Did I neglect to mention?
Bookmark dumping ground:
- Interactive Fiction Archive, fast comprehensive web-indexed mirror of ftp.gmd.de/if-archive.
- rec.arts.int-fiction FAQ.
- Interactive Fiction at About.com.
- Interactive Fiction Library.
- Textfire's IF Competition results.
- Interactive Fiction MUD Home Page.
- The Infocom Gallery, a comprehensive museum of Infocom text adventure games.
- Another excellent Infocom gallery.
- Inform Home Page. Inform is the ultimate programming language for writing interactive fiction, and compiles to Z-Code (compatable with Infocom's original data formats).
- The Inform Game List, a comprehensive list of text adventure/interactive fiction games written in Inform (pretty much all available for free).
- Inform Library Patch Site (charting patches to the Inform programming libraries).
- Archive of reviews of IF competition games.
- Scans of every issue of The New Zork Times, Infocom's text adventure newsletter.
- XYZZYnews, an occasional newsletter for the IF community.
- ZPlet, a Z-Code interpreter in a Java applet, with examples.
- Interactive Fiction Design, part of the Interactive Fiction Research Library.
- Glk IF interface standard [geek].
- Glulx 32-bit Virtual Machine for IF, an extension of the ZCode format.