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Yahoo! Search Web Services: Doing what I've been wanting GWS to do for forever (images, news, etc.)

myelin: urlstemmer: Thanks a lot

License Distribution: compare with the past

City of Bits Usability Blog | Usability & User Experience UK | Louise Ferguson: music recommenders have it pretty easy compared to books or movies

TheServerSide.com - TSS Featured Entry: ties in pretty well with my forbidden anti-unit-testing prejudices

snarfed.org :: snipsnap-notfound: "real similarity matching heuristics"

The New Yorker: The Critics: Books: okay, *now* i get it

My Adventures in the Breadbox: Carrot Habanero Soup: yum

FreePop: See how much there is

Wiley::Beginning Python : whee!

Freefall - Satellite Simulator & Screen Saver: looks fun, mac only

: Design Pope-choosing game as per Making Light

: "the other polyamory made me want to have a negative number of partners just to spite it"

O'Reilly Network: Hacking Books with Safari Web Services: They're like mushrooms

I Caught You A Delicious Bass .com: Napoleon Dynamite Dance Video And Soundboard: So fake it's not fake

Hot Potato Online: could be fun

The Life of Games, page 31 - Game Profile: Lemma: Also check out the lists of games in the bibliography or whatever

Advanced Internet Technologies : Hey, kid, work faster

ReportLab - Open Source Software: Works really well once you figure it out

stairjumpman.tk: It is indeed awesome

Babala: Wait, are those flowers growing out of the heads of snakes?

Metal Öpera - A Harlekin-Maus Game: Eventually each cliche on earth will have a corresponding rpg

Welcome to Gode Cookery: I really think we need to bring the spirit of the middle ages to modern haute cuisine.

http://highmoon.gerdsmeier.net/index.php: I just love games that take place in the universe

Secret Maryo Chronicles: news: Surely changing the name is enough.

Gotham Gal: Xmas: Ice cream cake with a glaze

http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~koller/papers/dlws01.html: That's just crazy talk

Cursed GTK: It comes with a terrible curse! It's GTK!

PyGE Home Page: you get a free ride for combining two things i like

50 Strategies for Making Yourself Work: Since the last time I saw this I became a real writer and now it doesn't seem so difficult

Visions of Xanadu: see the light

Permutationen: Wait, can you use the text of finnegans wake without having to be furtive about it?

http://tom.bbcity.co.uk/notcon/dannyobrien.txt: I forgot to make danny give me this talk so i could write it down properly

Welcome to ExtremeToysForBoys.com!! Extreme Adventure Capital of the World!: "Wherever your extreme side takes you"? Maybe this site is not for me after all.

:: Glest ::: it won awards and everything (looks windows-only)

Common REST Mistakes: Need to think about 3 and maybe 4

Arianne - A Multiplayer Online Role Playing Framework to develop games - : "Find jobs to do" -- I like games where you go around being helpful (not sarcastic like all my other del.icio.us "i like games where" comments)

NLL, Naval Logistics Library: Need to feed 100 people? Work on a boat? This is your web application!

Matrix URIs - Ideas about Web Architecture: This makes a lot of sense

SFGov: Superior Court: Instructions for Civic Center Courthouse: Am I gonna have to check this every day?

Happy Bath on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: That's one happy elephant

Data-Enter The Matrix:

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Arianne - A Multiplayer Online Role Playing Framework to develop games - : Oh yeah, there's a whole architecture here, thanks Brendan

Wired 7.10: The 20-Ton Packet : Definitely the most awesome article ever to appear in Wired

Air2Water - pure drinking water, water machine, water from air, water cooler, water system: Frickin awesome

How to make chalkboard paint: Amazing!

Liquid Magic Wall Magnetic Paint - Science Gifts - Edmund Scientifics: Today I'm all gee-whiz about everything!

Pacific Yurts-Original Modern Yurt Manufacturer: A card for these guys was on elisha's desk

Diary Of A Madman : Sumana points out that I could do these projects now

The Well-Tempered Plot Device: Nick Lowe: Bad writing ACTION!

: Need more blades for the Gilette SensorExcel(TM)

David Galbraith: Silent Dyson spheahs blocking electromagnetic raidiation? That was my oidea!

TrekToday - Blalock Calls 'Enterprise' Finale Appalling: No wonder you wipe people's memories! Your final episode is appalling!

Twin Draft Stopper: Hmm, but my drafty door is a sliding door. What to do?

Proxy List: More tools should have built-in proxy juggling support, I suppose

http://www.blockland.us/blockland/i: looks delightful

Roots of the REST/SOAP Debate: "Furthermore, this pattern is re-invented over and over again."

Antique Roman Dishes - Collection: From the Apicius book I saw yesterday

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~pazzani/Personalization/ali-kdd04.doc: Maybe it's so lame *because* it uses minimal server resources?

Songs made up in the car, a mishmash of styles and references, put into a meter I use too much already, but fun, part N:

Hello, my darling Clementine
Your eyes are dead but they still have that shine
Now you've come back just to make yourself mine
My darling 
Clementine

You walked on the river, or should I say in
Your shoes pulled you down, you were soaked through the skin
Now you've come back just to do yourself in
My darling 
Clementine

Razors are messy, a gun's hard to get
If you play with water you're bound to get wet
Take my advice and collect the whole set
There's lots of interesting ways to die
My

Clementine, I'll never be sure
What all your methods of suicide were
Here's hoping you come back as something with fur
My darling
Clementine

Lyrics and Music: With inevitable NIH lecturing. Exegesis: "brine" indicates salt water, but you wouldn't drive ducklings to the ocean unless you were very cruel, so it's just a rhyme. the setting of a canyon makes a river the most likely body of water. Also I like the "now she's dead, I draw the line" verse, which I'd never heard before.

Virgin Mary? Casino pays $10,600 for pretzel: Congratulations on acquiring a pretzel that looks like the friggin' treble clef sign, guys.

Atlas Games: Charting New Realms of Imagination: For Kevin

ynnen's GeekLists!: This guy's lists are great

Blood-and-Cardstock.com: Games - X-Machina: Which winter is "this winter"?

Scratch euro characters: é è JaƧques

Diplomatic Mission: Not a type of game you see that often (I can't believe I'm still wasting time on this site)

Cosmic Encounter: Yes, I am getting work done.

Lehman's;kitchen accessories:crocks, bells, woodworking tools, ice cream makers, axes, wooden toys, kitchen gadgets, kitchen store, oil lamp, apple peeler, food processing, blacksmith tools, fireplace stove: Just what I need, "home butchering"

Star Trek Blooper Downloads: from amygdala

Sears Archives Home Page: down now but should be interesting

PIEBALD - official site: Awful site design, good music

:::: the official EDEN ROW web site ::::: There's probably a connection

Croquet Project: If I'd solved all these problems I wouldn't go working on 3D graphics as well...

Fractal Food : Is there anything that family of vegetables can't do?

1-World Globes - The Moon: Get this for mom (she doesn't read this so it's safe)

http://craphound.com/etech2005-lifehacks.txt: They (are) live!

: "The real hero is almost always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else." -- Eco page 122

Open Clip Art Library :: openclipart.org: I could make a game w/these graphics if I were crazy enough. (I probably am)

Suck: Daily: "when you enter [a mall], you step out of time and off the map, into a new but always familiar meta-territory: the Shopping Zone." As seen in Jake Berendes West Covina

BrickLink - The Unofficial Online LEGO® Marketplace: At last I can obtain that white-suit spaceman that has eluded me for years (though all the specimens on offer seem of poor quality)

Time Meddler: This will be the game that makes our fortune, Leonard me boy. Time travel game! In other such games you experience time travel from the perspective of a human: you turn back the clock to a specific point and relive events from there. In this game, you are a four-dimensional being! To you, the timeline looks like the pages of a flip book spread out before you. Like a Trafalmadorian you can reach out and touch any of the segments of a timeline that strike your fancy. Unlike a Trafalmadorian you can change events. Changes have ripple effects into the future.

The game board looks like a 2d grid. The squares contain people and objects in different states over time. That is, the x axis is stepwise "time" and the y axis is stepwise "state of person/object #n". Your job on each level is to meddle with the timeline to achieve a certain result (eg. to make two people fall in love). You can insert items into the timeline, move objects around, etc. Every time you do something at time k, the timeline is redrawn from k+1 onwards. Maybe you have a limited ability to affect peoples' minds (you can make Alice think "I'll go for a walk" but not "On second thought, I'm in love with Bob!"). With the right modelling the possible actions and resulting events could be very flexible.

It is a turn-based puzzle game because of course it makes no sense to have any time-related operations since the whole point is you exist outside of time.

How do I know this game will make our fortune? TIME TRAVEL, DUH!

Next time on "game design personal notebook theater": Captain Compliance! The game where the object is to get permission to play the game!

Probably not going into the book: You may have seen (or eaten) prepackaged vegetarian food that imitates various types of meat. Think of a blocking function like time.sleep() as a particular kind of meat (say, bacon), and Twisted's non-blocking callLater() as the vegetarian equivalent. Someone who wants to experience different kinds of meat, yet stay a vegetarian, is in the position of the Twisted team. They want to support all kinds of activities, but they don't allow any blocking function calls. If you want to make a blocking function call inside Twisted code (eat some particular type of meat), you either need to find a non-blocking implementation that does the same thing (a prepackaged vegetarian equivalent), write one yourself (create your own approximation), or do without.

Bread Pudding: Our Search for the World's Best: All rise for the honorable Bread Pudding

China History Forum, online chinese history forum (Powered by Invision Power Board): "Imperial rules and guidelines"

Matt Croydon::Postneo 2.0 » Mobile Screen Scraping with BeautifulSoup and Python for Series 60: Next on Fox: Everybody Loves Beautiful Soup

L.A. Daily News - Their Opinion: I had an "NPR announcer" sketch along these lines. "Kkhoasei Kkhuitiaairrez works for the Los Angeles DPW. When he emigrated from Teeehwhaauna he had only a few dollars to his name, but now he can afford a two-bedroom house in La Habra..."

http://www.rogerbinns.com/isbg/isbg.py: Useful reference program for doing imap with Python. Also seems useful for its intended purpose.

Chrisman, Arthur Bowie --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia: This guy's stuff is great, with Twain-style humor, but who knows how many of the stories he just made up

moshez: Stories From a Conference: PyCon after-action report. "People were... banging each other for no good reason." I sure picked the wrong year to skip PyCon!

2 Elephants: Audubon Zoo, New Orleans, Louisiana on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: so cute

2 Elephants: Audubon Zoo, New Orleans, Louisiana on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: so cute

The Nameless Dread: I'm pretty sure this is better than all previous attempts to recaption Family Circus cartoons

Index of /~bnc/feynman: Cue Leonard/Kris Feynman impersonation: "Yeah this is Dick Feynman! What's it to you?"

uploadr.py: Nice starter script. I guess I should use flickr instead of my own, abandoned photo directory

Ludemetic Game Generator: Oldie but goodie. Gave me "Wardriver". Old BoogaBooga memes, turned into games! ("Wargame, Medieval, Space Exploration")

HTML REDIRECT: Maybe I should show this to mom

The Linux Game Tome: Two years later, he has the last word

Unicode Chart - IanAlbert.com: Looks like a job for bittorrent

Exult: I wasn't interested but I am now

: MARS NEEDS WOMEN

Index of /library: This guy needs to meet Peter Hodgson

DFA | Office of Income Tax Administration | Individual Income Tax Forms: After this, Arkansas will be out of my life forever

leafy: Home : It's like they're trolling to be in a Software Roundup

Frog and Toad Photographs and Calls: ribbit

http://photos8.flickr.com/7803411_f6e1563bfb.jpg: SO CUTE

Wired News: Camping Out for the Grokster Case: "At least, we'll have veto power over new technologies!" "Not so fast!" "Holy crap! It's SETH DAVID SCHOEN!"

Happy Hooking: PyConDC 2005: Actually very similar to what Inform provides

XHTML Quick Reference Guide: Home: This will put an end to people emailing me about NESTABLE_TAGS once and for all.

FormEncode/Validator: Oh, don't be modest, Ian

SWILL: MY HUSBAND'SWILL

The Apache Derby Project: Looks pretty cool if you're into java

SourceForge.net: Project Info - Tux Math Scrabble: Like so many things, sung to the tune of 'zoot suit riot'. From Riana.

Pad2Pad - Free PCB design software - Printed circuit boards manufacturing & PCB assembly: Events are rapidly overtaking my ability to write my story about the cutting edge

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