Interactive Fiction Writing Month

Interactive Fiction Writing Month (Feb 15 – March 15) This is the blag for Interactive Fiction Month 2009, an attempt to lure beginners into learning Inform through a series of easy tasks with concrete deadlines, and to promote discourse on game design in general. Similar:Keyboard Shortcuts for Novelists Use the command-alt functions to add s…AestheticsMy…

Coraline — My Quick Review

I bugged out of work a few hours early today so I could meet up with the family for a matinee showing of Coraline. The local theater had a rather defensive home-grown sign explaining that the extra $2.50 they were charging per ticket pays for the cost of renting the 3D projection equipment from Disney.…

‘Sexual Depravity,’ Student Fees and the Student Press

News about a free-speech dust-up in the department where I used to work at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire: This fall, the English department, the publication’s then “administrative home,” voted unanimously to sever its ties to Flip Side, citing, in a statement, interest in “fostering the responsible use of free speech and the mutually respectful community…

Is That an Emoticon in 1862?

What appears to be a smiley winks out from an 1862 transcript of a speech by ==|;o)> NY Times City Room Similar:How do I cite generative AI in MLA style? | MLA Style CenterWe ask students to cite encyclopedia art…AcademiaA #neovictorian #steampunk ship-of-the-line needs a dramatic flag and a conveniently locat…AestheticsOver time, Google has made…

Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering

A nifty little primer, compiled by Nate Piekos. CROSSBAR I This is probably the biggest mistake seen amongst amateur letterers. An “I” with the crossbars on top and bottom is virtually only used for the personal pronoun, “I.” The only other allowable use of the “crossbar I” is in abbreviations. Any other instance of the letter should just…

Text satire pushes Guitar Hero's buttons

Cantina The current management of this rather seedy venue doesn’t much care about appearances, apparently. Nonetheless, it’s become one of the hottest spots in the area, attracting surly alcoholics from all around. A variety of local acts, the vast majority unrelentingly terrible, play here every Tuesday night. Coincidentally, it’s Tuesday night. A host of unsavory-looking…

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a horde of the undead in possession of insatiable hunger for the brains of the living must be in want of a Jane Austin remix.(via) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies covers the same ground as the original masterpiece – only that ground is full freshly-vacated graves.  The “strange…

Revolution, Facebook-Style – Can Social Networking Turn Young Egyptians Into a Force for Democratic Change?

When I sat down in the middle of January with an Arabic-language translator to look through Facebook, we found one new group with almost 2,000 members called “I’m sure I can find 1,000,000 members who hate Israel!!!” and another called “With all due respect, Gaza, I don’t support you,” which blamed Palestinian suffering on Hamas…

www.whitehouse.gov/blog

The URL says it all. www.whitehouse.gov/blog Similar:Writing a news story calls on different skills than writing a traditional essay.Updated an older instructional handout w…EssaysStudents Learning about First Amendment FreedomsIn an opening lecture for my journalism …CultureUpdated a post about Sarah Rush — the "launch when ready" crew member from 1979 Battlesta…I recently noticed that a…

Socialization at the Zoo

“The Zoo and the Carnegie Science Center are my two favorite places in the world!” chirps my daughter from the back of the van. “Can we go to the Science Center instead?” “No, honey, we’re driving to your penguin class,” I tell her. She grabs her brother’s arm. “Both of us?” she asks. “The two…