Archive 18. April 2008

BBC - Radio 4 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - in Flash with illustrations. Nice.

Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org - "From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the 'Infocom Drive' — a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I've ever seen, a treasure chest documenting the rise and fall of the legendary interactive fiction game company. Among the assets included: design documents, email archives, employee phone numbers, sales figures, internal meeting notes, corporate newsletters, and the source code and game files for every released and unreleased game Infocom made."

Nikon D3 Review - digital cameras are slowly getting to where we want them to be - in terms of features. The price is still beyond good and evil for these powerhouses.

Hourly wages below five euros gross - that's how the upswing and the reduction of unemployment figures work. Next goal: undercutting India and China in hourly wages.

The Flying Meat Wiki: Acorn - nice, there's a wiki with tips, tricks and plugins for Acorn. I like to use Acorn because it's a quick way to change images. And scripting is possible in Python, which is not to be sneezed at.

The Flying Meat Wiki: VoodooPad - There's also a wiki for VoodooPad. And after I saw that you can now script with Python there, I'll probably take a closer look at it. VoodooPad was already quite nice as a desktop wiki in older versions, but the current versions seem to have learned a lot of nice tricks.