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DNA/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Infocom Adventure

DNA/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Infocom Adventure
History There was a time when computer games didn't have graphics. Or at least they couldn't have graphics and sound at the same time. They certainly couldn't have graphics, sound and enough content to keep even a human being amused for more than a few minutes. Then graphics games came along and the computer using portion of the human race forgot all about 500,000 years of language evolution and went straight back to the electronic equivalent of banging rocks together - the point'n'click game. Something strange has now happened. And now some news ... If you've read this far, congratulations, you clearly have one of the necessary requirements to play the actual game online. If you don't have Java, then may we suggest the BBC's rather excellent 20th Anniversary Edition? To avoid the dissapointment of a pointless quarter-megabyte download (and to prevent our poor server from being hammered by thousands of fruitless fetches) we moved the game to its own page. Enjoy!

The Kingdom of Loathing Where am I? The Kingdom of Loathing (or KoL, as it has come to be known by its player base) is a free, comical RPG, brought to you by the folks at Asymmetric Publications . KoL is currently in open beta -- it's open to the public to play, but it's not quite finished. More features and things to do are being added on a nearly daily basis. KoL is, and always will be, free to play, but donations are appreciated and rewarded. KoL is played from the comfort of your browser, and is adorned with a staggering array of stunning hand-drawn images. An Adventurer is You! Choose from one of six intoxicating character classes, including: Places to go, People to see The Kingdom is broad and deep. Danger! The Kingdom contains scores of terrifying monsters. Fat Loot! Hundreds of usable and equippable items fill the dungeons and wildernesses of the Kingdom, including: Meatloaf Helmet This is a helmet made out of meatloaf. Filthy Corduroys This is a pair of filthy corduroys. Gnollish Autoplunger eXtreme Mittens

Ghost Web Cams: Live Ghost Cams to Hunt Ghosts Ghost web cams are listed below that allow you to hunt for ghosts and the paranormal... Ghost cams monitor haunted hallways and rooms...if you see something out of the ordinary, then simply save the picture to your hard drive by "right clicking" and selecting "save as". Webcams now bring you a way to ghost hunt right from your computer! List of Popular Webcams for Ghost Hunting:Ghost CamerasWebsite devoted to keeping haunted places open to the public - watch for signs of haunting! Willard Library Ghost CamsThree Web Cams monitor three areas for the Lady in Grey and other ghosts. The Paranormal World Ghost CamTPW covers an 1843 castle with four web cameras. David's Ghost CamSix ghost webcams set up in a 100 year old Victorian house. Lincolnshire Ghost WebcamGhost webcam set up on the roof of an old cinema is very active.

Amanita Design English Pronunciation If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. English Pronunciation by G. Source Breaking News: Fake News Special! Puzzle Pirates Recent Database Breaches Teach Security Lessons -- The Hard Way Gawker, Epsilon, TSS of San Juan offer window into database hacks -- and how to defend against them [Excerpted from "Database Breaches: Lessons Learned From Real-World Attacks," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] If a hack successfully queries and exports hundreds of thousands -- or even millions -- of customers' records, you have a major problem that’s likely to cost your company millions of dollars in notifications, incident investigation/recovery, and lost business. According to the Ponemon Institute’s sixth annual U.S. Yet despite the threat, many companies still have no idea that their most important data -- especially databases -- are being pillaged. How do such major breaches happen -- and how can you prevent them from happening to your organization? Gawker.com The Gawker fiasco is one of the most highly publicized database attack of recent months, and the damage done to Gawker’s portfolio of blog sites was widespread. More Insights

Welcome to Improbable Island MoTD | Log In to see your Distractions | Report a problem | Enquirer - Blogs, Forums and Wiki | Twitter | Improbable Island Merchandise! How did I end up here? It's a question that you must have asked yourself at one point in your life or another. However, this time, you mean it literally. Or rather, you would, if you had gotten around to asking that question. You know that you're lying in grass. The unmistakable roar of a low-flying jet plane going overhead, and the muffled thumps of explosions in the distance... now, that's not so good. Reluctantly, you open your eyes. How did I end up here? You're lying on your back in the middle of a grassy clearing. About twenty paces ahead, the clearing gradually gives way into dense jungle. Except one. Think. Okay. You try to get up, to see just how big this wooden fort thing is, but a sharp pain in your head tells you in no uncertain terms to sit the hell back down again. As you collapse, the gates open, and a woman walks out. You frown. You shrug.

Belief in Nothing - StumbleUpon Nihilism confuses people. "How can you care about anything, or strive for anything, if you believe nothing means anything?" they ask. In return, nihilists point to the assumption of inherent meaning and question that assumption. Nihilists who aren't of the kiddie anarchist variety tend to draw a distinction between nihilism and fatalism. What is nihilism? As a nihilist, I recognize that meaning does not exist. In the same way, I accept that when I die, the most likely outcome will be a cessation of being. Even further, I recognize that there is no golden standard for life. A tree falling in a forest unobserved makes a sound. Many people "feel" marginalized when they think of this. Meaning is the human attempt to mold the world in our own image. This distanced mentality further affirms our tendency to find the world alienating to our consciousness. As a result, we like to separate the world from our minds and live in a world created by our minds. Nihilism reverses this process.

Immortality blows (fiction)@Everything2.com - StumbleUpon Man, I wish I'd never found that goddamn lamp. Stupid fucking genie. I just had to blurt it out, didn't I? "I wish I were immortal!" Half the time they can't even make you immortal, but Sim Allah Bim of the Seven Winds just snapped his fingers and said "It is done." Damn, was I stoked. Oh, it was awesome for a while. Mankind did some really amazing shit over the next couple hundred million years. But then they started evolving. But it seemed to keep getting hotter. Then there was this galaxy that was fucking huge in the sky. Now, the sun exploding itself was an even cooler sight than all those extra stars. So I waited. But then the damnedest thing happened. Now let me tell you, I thought it was cold on solid ground with no sun, but that was nothing. I landed on planets or even in stars from time to time. But eventually I drifted out of the galaxy altogether. About the time the last galaxies were going out, I started to feel like I was going faster. But that's where it ended.

The Museum of Unworkable Devices Physics Gallery Perpetual motion machine inventors do have principles. Unfortunately the physical principles they assume are often ones not obeyed by nature. Let's examine just a few. The principle of unlimited possibility. Anything is possible in nature. The "heavier on one side" seduction. Anything is possible Inventors assume that since we haven't looked at every part of the universe nor have we looked at all possible mechanisms or phenomena, we can't rule out anything. Those who think this way are much like the child who puts two blocks in a box, closes the box, shakes it, then opens it, hoping to find three blocks inside. The "heavier on one side" seduction. The most naive level of perpetual motion seduction is the notion that if a system has more mass on one side of the axle, then that side must swing downward. We can test its stability by turning the wheel to any position whatever. The earliest unbalanced wheel of Bhaskara underwent countless modifications and embellishments over centuries.

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