VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. SimCities and SimCrises - Transcript of the keynote for the 2017 International City Gaming Conference 2024-11-22

   tags: architecture/urban-planning, city, game/sandbox, game/sim-city, game/simulation, politics, research, science-fiction, society/demographics, weather

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   • 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

   tags: programming/css, programming/javascript, science-fiction

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   • arwes/arwes
   • Docs
   • Playground
3. RTSL | Finishing Half-Life is just the beginning! 2019-06-08

   tags: community, fps, game, game/half-life, mod, science-fiction

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4. Rocannon: Vim for Ansible playbooks: omni-completion, abbreviations, syntax, folding, K-docs, and colorscheme 2018-10-25

   tags: completion, configuration-management/ansible, editor, editor/vim, programming/yaml, science-fiction

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5. GNU Terry Pratchett 2018-10-16

   tags: discworld, fantasy, gnu, header, literature, nerd, network/http, science-fiction

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   • 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

   tags: art, movie, science-fiction

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7. FangleTronics: DIY Millennium Falcon 2018-02-27

   tags: diy, science-fiction, space, spaceship, star-wars, toy, wood

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   • 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

   tags: book, fiction, novel, science, society, story, technology

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9. Neal Stephenson - C R Y P T O N O M I C O N 2013-08-26

   tags: book, cryptography, development, geek, science-fiction, security

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   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

    tags: détournement, game, science-fiction, star-wars

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    Darquevadaur !