Nice ha-ha-only-serious keynote talk from DjangoCon 2008. Touches on a fair bit of stuff that isn’t django-specific.
Blast from the past! I have vivid memories of carousels full of these tiny boxed games at Games Workshop in the days when they sold more of other people’s products than they did of their own.
WoW player successfully re-purposes MMO addictiveness to lose 100 pounds by putting together a “walking desk” (gaming PC mounted on a treadmill).
Odd but interesting flash game. Identify letterforms and shapes through a 1D window into their 2D world.
Hi-res patch to go with Fallouts 1 & 2, as recently purchased from GoG.com by me.
A nice clear guide to unravelling the syntax of the W3C’s (X)HTML definitions. Helpful for getting to the bottom of what’s allowed where.
Great, funny, autobiographical talk on growing up painfully nerdy, by the father of BioShock.
An account of how we ended up with every browser pretending to be every other browser and, consequently, a warning against browser-sniffing over capability-sniffing.
Art Book that was originally destined for the limited edition of the game, available as a free PDF download. Interesting to see how many blobby, mutated, tentacle monster cliches they managed to sidestep.
The original proto-RPG was an off-battlefield, negotiation & intrigue based spin-off from historical wargaming. Created in 1967 by David Wesley (later to become a major in the US Army), and played by Dave Arneson (later to become co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons).