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defective yeti — Good Gift Games Greatest Hits edit / delete

Suggestions for board games to buy for other people. (Tested. Works.)

to amusements board-games games shopping ... on 31 December 2012

Fogarty's Cove edit / delete

There's a comment to the effect that Fogarty's Cove doesn't exist on the map in the sleeve notes for Stan Rogers' classic album. This appears to be an attempt to fix that problem.

to amusements canada folk music stan-rogers ... on 12 December 2012

God N Locomotive Works edit / delete

A comprehensive set of articles on how to perform Mayan calendrical calculations using Python, and other interesting stuff. Includes some very pretty Mayan bitmap icons.

to amusements icons maya python time vietnam ... on 07 December 2012

Retro Reading: The Game Novellas Homepage edit / delete

An impressive collection of novellas that came with 80s games.

to amusements etext games novellas retrocomputing ... on 25 November 2012

orangeduck/CPP_COMPLETE edit / delete

(Via david.) Turing-complete computation in the C preprocessor. Neat.

to amusements c obfuscated preprocessor ... on 18 November 2012

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 75% edit / delete

That's the president of Lake Wobegon, presumably...

to ag0803 amusements comics statistics ... on 12 November 2012

Pathetic Motorways edit / delete

Like that site that collects awful road junctions, except without the junctions.

to amusements roads travel ... on 12 November 2012

The Cutting Room Floor - The Cutting Room Floor edit / delete

"The Cutting Room Floor is a site dedicated to unearthing and researching unused and cut content from video games." I am going to close this browser tab now and go and do something productive.

to amusements games prototype ... on 29 October 2012

THE WORLD DREAM BANK: PLANETOCOPIA edit / delete

Mad. Very well-written. Absolutely fascinating. The gimmick is: take the Earth and change the parameters a bit -- rearrange the continents, or raise the sea level -- and then work out what effect it'd have on weather systems, local climates and ecologies. He also does the same for various terraformed Marses and Venuses -- the latter being particularly impressive.

to amusements climate earth ecology maps mars venus ... on 28 September 2012

Vim Koans | Arabesque edit / delete

I like these.

to amusements editor vim ... on 28 July 2012