Best Film on Newton’s Third Law. Ever.

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At Seton Hill, Christina Michelmore is about to speak on the Egyptian Revolution.

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Where Have the Good Men Gone? – WSJ.com

Yes, at other points in Western history young people have waited well into their 20s to marry, and yes, office girls and bachelor lawyers have been working and finding amusement in cities for more than a century. But their numbers and their money supply were always relatively small. Today’s pre-adults are a different matter. They…

Ludus Novus » Blog Archive » Fine-Tuned: Being Troy Sterling

I’ve just gotten around to playing “Fine-Tuned,” a 2001 work of interactive fiction by Dennis Jerz. It’s a fun piece about a 1920s dandy with an automobile and an opera singer given a strange job. I’m about halfway through, and the game reportedly ends in a cliffhanger (which is disappointing), but so far I’m impressed…

xkcd: Na (Make It Better)

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You can also see some marketing here. « Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling

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Choose Your Own Adventure books: How The Cave of Time taught us to love interactive entertainment. – By Grady Hendrix – Slate Magazine

The next time I introduce interactive storytelling, I might use this very accessible overview. But all of these efforts were eclipsed by the bedtime story Edward Packard told his two daughters in 1969.While telling his daughters their story, Packard, then a lawyer who was “never comfortable with the law,” asked them what happened next. They…

Hacking the WordPress Calendar Widget

I’m fine-tuning my WordPress multisite blog installation. A blog is designed to look into the past, not the future. While it was a simple matter to turn MovableType into a rudimentary course management system by simply post-dating blog entries, WordPress goes out of its way to hide future content. I use the plugin “No Future…