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tut tut, it looks like rain

see also: http://del.icio.us/kwill/
(to transfer these links there, one day)

d@vid's page of things to come back to on a rainy day (officially shelved projects, as opposed to things I'm actively pretending to work on)

projects

CLAWmarksUnbound?

• CLAWmarks online

beatnik

• compiler

CLAWnet -> SchpatCON? weekend

• PmWiki - spon/members/games groups
• blog engine/plugin
• moving light?

LARPs

Shaman Convocation

• Sorcerer LARP, with Perry
• gotta get to that "work on the damn LARP again" stage, prolly December

Universalis LARP writing

• got the idea, got to develop the framework

The Archchancellor's Hat

• Discworld
• Yancke

LARP about a whole bunch of people meeting in a forest

• Yancke

link storage area

a temporary area for dropping links to read later (if ever) & links that had their moment

comix related

• http://www.scottmccloud.com/ (da guru!)
• http://www.simpleweblog.com/comics/archives/000900.php (critical non-fanboy review of Comics & Sequential Art)

gaming (general)

• RolePlaying.Co.Za yay! it grows!
• http://www.pagga.net/ - UK LRP community
• http://www.larp.com/ - "as featured on salon" ;P
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LARP - includes overview of and links to bizarro European stuff
• http://www.larplist.com/faq.php newsgroup FAQ
• Battling Stereotype article posted on physical CLAWsNoticeboard for about five seconds
• ]] - Leading contrarian thinker Gary Pelino cast doubt today on reported sightings of Issue #25 of Places to Go, People to Be.

TheForge related

• http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=9517

-] http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=9337

• http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=9453

-] http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8112 (no myth)

  * http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=6275
]  - http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=4994 (star wars example)

• ]] - finally an inkling to the jargon (note "gnarliburr"! motivation to worry about ]] again :) - not intended as an introductory text, though, so I'm thinking maybe an _Introduction to the Big Model article for CLAWmarks

Sorcerer related

• ]] - a bit specialised to wow about and I'm not a fan of ~PmWiki, but it's so damn useful (portions of the Sorcerer text really need clarifying, which portions depend on your angle of approach) - and hey, doyce keeps other wikis, including FireflyWiki

-] http://www.anvilwerks.com/index.php/Anvilwerks/TheKeysOfUriel (scenario)

• http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=6353 (what else can demons do?)
• http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=5571 (questions about demon powers - Sorcerer is not a teaching text)
• Art-Deco Melodrama threads
  • http://indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=753
    ] - http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=753&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

] - http://indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=770
] - http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=770&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 ] - http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=770&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30
] - http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=770&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45 ] - http://indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=828
] - http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=828&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 ] - http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=828&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30
] - http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=828&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45 ] - http://indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=876 -] http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=7912 (modern necromancy + one sheet)

  * http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8079 (continued)

• http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=11183 (mythic past/haunted present)

prog related

• ]] (programming on too much espresso, daddyo)
• perl
  • http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/littperl/index.htm (essential! "The 10% you need -- for 90% of your work")
  • http://faq.perl.org/ (I actually didn't use these next two)
  • http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/ (PDFs?, bleh)

wiki related

• http://intertwingly.net/slides/2004/etcon/19.html

-] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ShortestWikiContest (*)

• http://intertwingly.net/slides/2004/etcon/64.html

-] http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/FrontPage

• (*) don't you think this is a better uri? not-changing-existant-uris notwithstanding I would much prefer http://claws.uct.ac.za/wiki?TableOfContents

-] http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Wiki_science_HowToStartAWiki

• http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000644.html

-] TikiWiki features: http://tikiwiki.org/TikiFeatures -] MediaWiki? (wikipedia) features: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_features -] PmWiki features: DavidSeaward 18 January 2006, at 07:00 PM SAST

• TWiki? features: (pending, checkout http://www.twiki.org/ and (example) http://wiki.trmfineart.com/bin/view)

web] related

• A List Apart

 * Jeff Zeldman

• Dive Into Accessibility

 * Dive Into Mark (not that mark pilgrim)

• http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/index.html (thanks campey!)

 * Eric Meyer

• Super Ragged Floats
• dmoz categories Games:Conventions:Africa and Games:Roleplaying:Clubs:Africa (which I edit)

previous links of the moment

(that don't fit into the categories above)

• academic orcs

-] angst shopping centre (no, really)

• dalai lama personality test "Your description of Coffee (headache) is how you interpret sex." :D
• ]] -- deliberately provocative; warning, includes Schwarzenegger pr0n (also, referer scripts)
• five geek social fallacies

-] footnotes & queries (via DuncanSellars) strange tales of the underground from the BBC

• Geek Hierachy Chart http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchartbig.gif behold, all of geekdom!
• ]] <Adam> w00t!
• ]] scifi + open source = geekout
• ]] ("As you can see, the same science of Game Theory that I and my fellow Defense Department tacticians used to defeat the Godless Soviets during the Cold War can be used to defeat Godlessness here in our own land.")
• Ghost in the Shell 2: pity it suffers the flaws of the original - Perhaps the worst thing I can say about Ghost in the Shell 2 is that it actually made me think, "Ya know, I guess those Matrix sequels weren’t all that bad." - (yes, *that* John Tynes)
• hear the primal scream of the universe: ]] (via bloopwatch.org)

-] Nokia unveils mid-air message (via /.) just when I thought we'd hit the "with fins" stage of development (cf. the car industry & the cadillac) - more useless cellphone technology - looks kinda fun though

• ]] (nbc10.com news story) whip the bunny! (no more right-wing fundamentalist links after this)
• ]] (bruce sterling on sf + postmodernism)
• surgical mask fetishist becomes first man banned from british hospitals (via wikipedia)
• Today in Alternate History

-] Wikipedia? font of collaborative wisdom, including entries on elections?, , Scott McCloud?, roleplaying?, ansibles?, the kind of maths stuff that Tim reads all the time?, Janet Jackson?, crazy website specific manual stuff that you can read and read and read?...