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Grimace (composer)
Grimace (also Grymace or Grimache) was a French composer active in the mid-to-late 14th century.
Grimace was active in the period of music history known as the ars nova and was probably a contemporary of Guillaume de Machaut, since his compositions lack the complicated rhythms of the Ars subtilior (Günther 2007). Grimace's birth and death dates ( Read more... ) -
The Accidental Gardener
I'm not one of life's born gardeners. Plants for me means twiggy things sticking out of neglected pots on kitchen window sills, and really nothing further. And that was much how I liked it. Every house I've lived in - at least, ever since leaving my parents', of course - has had paving slabs by way of a garden. In fact the flat me and cherade9 first moved ( Read more... ) -
DRAMA
Absolutely outstanding Internet blog drama starring seemingly half the staff of Infocom. -
I7 makes MUD.
So someone had the brilliant idea of getting Inform 7 code to compile into a MUD/MUSH/MOO or a "talker" as I prefer to call them. Having done that, they then disguised the announcement as an April Fool's joke. But it ain't, it really ain't, and you can submit your own Inform 7 creations and see them magically brought to life on-the-fly. Magnificent -
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IF names generator from r.a.i-f. Splices two existing IF titles to form a hybrid. Expect an IF competition in which entries are inspired by names from here, any moment ( Read more... ) -
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Ugh. I seem to be killing every part of the Internet I touch at the moment. In fact I probably killed YouTube too.
The server which runs my shell account and main email address has had a slight FS crash and I crashed the talker. And I've lost a lot of passwords, which I can't retrieve due to the email address not being available.
Bad.
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First-line lyrics quiz
The last one of these I did was a magnificent failure, consisting almost entirely of music that no-one has ever heard. However it occurs to me that my music player, Amarok, can be configured to produce weighted random listings, such that the songs that are most likely to come up are the ones I actually listen to the most: I wonder if that'll make ( Read more... )
