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These are my links for September 10th through September 17th:

• TimeAPI – TimeAPI is an API to get dates/times from natural language queries based on Chronic.
• A list of all 22,802 words in the Scribblenauts dictionary. : gaming –
• Introducing JSTalk, an alternative to AppleScript – JSTalk's goal can described like this: JSTalk is to AppleScript, what Cocoa is to Carbon.
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• How do I clone all remote branches with Git? – Stack Overflow –

These are my links for August 29th through September 9th:

• Form constant – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – A form constant is one of several geometric patterns which are recurringly observed during hallucinations and altered states of consciousness.
• abhishek.geek.nz – Before you start learning Lisp – This article dispels some untrue preconceptions commonly held by novices venturing into Lisp.
• Focal point (game theory) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – In game theory, a focal point (also called Schelling point) is a solution that people will tend to use in the absence of communication, because it seems natural, special or relevant to them.
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• remi :: Rack Basics – If you’re a Ruby programmer and you’ve never directly used Rack before then this screencast is for you. This introduces you to the very basics of Rack.

These are my links for August 23rd through August 28th:

• Words for Webstock – Bruce Sterling –
• Jani's at the mercy of her mind — latimes.com –
• Tile Drawer – Tile Drawer makes designing and hosting custom maps simple and straightforward. The project lets anyone run their own OpenStreetMap server in the cloud with one-step configuration and zero administration.
• The Afterlife of Paper Redux « bibliostructures –
• The Boy Who Heard Too Much : Rolling Stone –

These are my links for August 14th through August 21st:

• How to load a greasmonkey script after AJAX-Request – Stack Overflow –
• BACK IN THE DAY Forget About Brendan Haywood –
• Profiles: Secrets of Magus : The New Yorker – Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women
• Tomorrow Museum » Archive » The Daily Death: When A Celebrity Dies Every 15 Minutes –
• Skynet – Skynet is an open source Ruby implementation of Google’s MapReduce framework, created at Geni.

These are my links for August 10th through August 13th:

• iPhone Sudoku Grab: How does it all work? –
• Ontic Oren » Go Daddy DNS & Heroku –
• Traders Profit With Computers Set at High Speed – NYTimes.com –
• Computer-trading worries grow as NYSE builds new datacenter – Ars Technica – The NYSE is building a massive datacenter in New Jersey that should significantly boost the percentage of stock market activity that's nothing but computers trading against one another for millisecond profits. Critics are worried that more such trading could destabilize the markets, or worse.
• The rise of no homo and the changing face of hip-hop homophobia. – By Jonah Weiner – Slate Magazine –

I just came across Golden Retriever, something I toyed with for a couple of days last winter. It’s a, even by my lax standards, quite weird concept of trying to create an interface to allow quick and easy retrieval of a data item on a spreadsheet cell, just by specifying the corresponding row (y axis) and column headers (x axis).

I seem to remember the idea was to eventually throw a XMPP/SMS/Command line layer in, so if you had, say, your weekly class schedule on a Google Doc Spreadsheet In The Sky, you could just do ‘Monday 5PM’ and get back ‘Biology’ or whatever. Or maybe you’d have your server passwords on the spreadsheet (don’t) and enter ‘ServerFoo MySQL’ and get back ‘XXYYZZ’ .

I also seem to remember it kinda worked, but that I couldn’t swear.

Google Reader screenshot

• When, if ever, do you want to star something but not share or like it?
• When, if ever, do you want to share something but not star it or like it?
• When, if ever, do you like something but do not want to star it or like it?

These are my links for August 5th through August 7th:

• defunkt's cijoe at master – GitHub – CI Joe is a simple Continuous Integration server. edit
• About Rip – Rip is an attempt to create a next generation packaging system for Ruby.
• USB Ubuntu NetBook Remix Install via Windows | USB Pen Drive Linux –
• Seven Lies About Lying (Part 1) – Errol Morris Blog – NYTimes.com –
• Modernizr – Version 0.9 is the initial public release of Modernizr. It includes tests for a variety of CSS 3 features and an HTML 5 element styling enabler.
• JavaScript dependency management and concatenation: Sprockets – Sprockets is a Ruby library that preprocesses and concatenates JavaScript source files.
• RSSted Development — The American, A Magazine of Ideas –

These are my links for August 1st through August 5th:

• Mario AI Competition 2009 – This competition is about learning, or otherwise developing, the best controller (agent) for a version of Super Mario Bros.
• Infinite Mario Bros! –
• Testing HTTP Digest Authentication in Rails : Light Year Blog –
• Matt Legend Gemmell – iPhone Development Emergency Guide –
• Wolfire Blog – Creating the illusion of accomplishment –

I’ve really enjoyed this Arte documentary featuring a conversation between two very influential game designers, each of them belonging to different generations and both sharing a bit of an outsider fame as well as a discontent with the current mainstream of the video game industry: Jason Roher and Chris Crawford.

The conversation sheds a lot of enlightening points about the craft and art of game design and is ripe with tidbits and references to explore: Little Computer People, Façade, Crawford’s current endeavour, Storytron, M.U.L.E., and many more.

Highly recommended if you are into narrative, digital storytelling, game design or simply creativity and innovation, and have 50+ minutes to spare:

Into the Night with Jason Rohrer and Chris Crawford from gmzzz on Vimeo.