(1) Fri Feb 03 2006 21:07 Ambiguously-Titled Project Gutenberg Texts:
Neither as interesting as you'd think on first glance.
Also of interest: The New York Subway: Its Construction and Equipment. And from the classics section I recommend My Bondage and my Freedom, which among other things includes a novel reason for not revealing spoilers:
Keen is the scent of the slaveholder; like the fangs of the
rattlesnake, his malice retains its poison long; and, although it
is now nearly seventeen years since I made my escape, it is well
to be careful, in dealing with the circumstances relating to it.
Fri Feb 03 2006 23:36 Shoot the Messenger:
Today instead of writing the book I wrote rules for a game (don't worry, Lyle is okay. I mean, don't worry, I got my book quota for the day done eventually). It's called Shoot The Messenger and it still needs some work, but it's got an interesting mechanic (simulating a language barrier using the inaccuracies introduced by online translation services) and a good source of paranoia. A lot of the games the Dispatch people come up with have a theme of paranoia. I wonder why that is. I wonder who else wonders why that is.
Fri Feb 03 2006 23:43:
I was pretty excited about Polynomial Hierarchy Collapse, but then the PDF loaded and it was just une histoire drôle like the kind I used to write for Segfault. Pretty drôle, though.
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