VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. SimCities and SimCrises - Transcript of the keynote for the 2017 International City Gaming Conference

   2024-11-22
   architecture/urban-planning city game/sandbox game/sim-city game/simulation politics research science-fiction society/demographics weather

   Permalink
   • Matteo Brittanti - How to get rid of homeless? - A 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called “homeless scandal” that affected the newly released game SimCity (Maxis/Electronic Arts, 2013)
   • Stanisław Lem - The Cyberiad
   • MIT - Urban Intervention Simulation (archive)
   • MIT - City Science Research Group
   • The Landlord's Game, a realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism
   • Invisible Cities, prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience
2. Arwes - Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework

   2023-07-22
   programming/css programming/javascript science-fiction

   Permalink
   • arwes/arwes
   • Docs
   • Playground
3. RTSL | Finishing Half-Life is just the beginning!

   2019-06-08
   community fps game game/half-life mod science-fiction

   Permalink
4. Rocannon: Vim for Ansible playbooks: omni-completion, abbreviations, syntax, folding, K-docs, and colorscheme

   2018-10-25
   completion configuration-management/ansible editor editor/vim programming/yaml science-fiction

   Permalink
5. GNU Terry Pratchett

   2018-10-16
   discworld fantasy gnu header literature nerd network/http science-fiction

   Permalink
   • http://discworld.wikia.com/wiki/Clacks
   • http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/genclacks.php
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2yt9j6/gnu_terry_pratchett/
   • https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/mar/17/terry-pratchetts-name-lives-on-in-the-clacks-with-hidden-web-code
6. Never-Before-Seen Concept Art from David Cronenberg's Total Recall!

   2018-07-04
   art movie science-fiction

   Permalink
7. FangleTronics: DIY Millennium Falcon

   2018-02-27
   diy science-fiction space spaceship star-wars toy wood

   Permalink
   • http://www.filthwizardry.com/2010/10/diy-star-wars-toys.html
8. Alain Damasio : « La science-fiction est le genre littéraire majeur. »

   2018-02-22
   book fiction novel science society story technology

   Permalink
9. Neal Stephenson - C R Y P T O N O M I C O N

   2013-08-26
   book cryptography development geek science-fiction security

   Permalink

   In the Beginning... was the Command Line

   Full essay: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/command.zip

10. Les noms des villages de France en version Geek | Ufunk.net

    2013-04-18
    détournement game science-fiction star-wars

    Permalink

    Darquevadaur !