News You Can Bruise for 2012 July 5

(1) Thu Jul 05 2012 08:18 Month of Kickstarter #5: Sierra Seasons: Since yesterday was a holiday the crop of new projects was very small, and for whatever reason not that inspiring. It's proving difficult to meet my super-picky requirements for this year. I may go back to backing just one project a day. But for now, I went back to my starred projects and paged a few pages down in the "ending soon" list, and came up with these two cool projects:

• Sierra Zulu by monochrom, a fun-looking film which promises (the creators' promises, not mine) to be "the bastard offspring of Catch-22 and Buckaroo Banzai."
• This one was already funded, but A Game for All Seasons - 4½ New Games from Level 99 offers a funding level I find very reasonable for this project: two deck-of-cards games for $20.

No Month of Kickstarter Platinum today, but I did want to give a shout-out to PastPages, a site which I discovered through its founder's already-funded Kickstarter project (ending in 24 hours). PastPages archives images of the home pages of many news sites once an hour. News sites archive their stories, but don't archive the way they presented those stories when they were new. Archiving that presentation is something I've wanted since 2007 and never got around to it. Many thanks to Ben Welsh for stepping up.