| Text Adventure Games * Linguistics * The Fourth Dimension * Fractals
"Let
Huldah bless the silkworm - the ornaments of the proud are from the bowells of
their betters" Christopher Smart's "Jubilate Agno" Feral Children http://www.feralchildren.com/en/index.php Zeno's Paradoxes (Ancient Greek philosopher who proved that motion is impossible) http://www.mathpages.com/rr/s3-07/3-07.htm How
to levitate Blank Page http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/ Lucid
dreaming techniques & research Usable
memorisation tricks - if you can get past the advertising... Alan
Krill: numerical memory systems, mnemonics, history & practise Omniglot: writing systems of the world, and other places http://www.omniglot.com/ Atatatatatatattaattatattatatatta!!! Milorad
Pavic Alejandro
Jodorowsky Robert
Anton Wilson Thomas
Pynchon William Morris Internet Archive http://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/index.htm David
Pearce: extropian style philosophy, online book The Hedonic Imperative + interlinked
hypermaze of scientific abstracts relating to the biochemical mechanisms of Pleasure
+ interesting & various links 'Sacred
texts' (broadly defined) from around the world Scott
McMahan: articles on Tolkien and his sources Wyrd Folk (some music) http://www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/ Ancient
Greek Music (listen here to genuine music of ancient Greece, all the tunes which
have survived)
SPAG: The Society for the Promotion of Adventure
Games (Reviews, introduction to modern text adventures, where to find them and
how to play) Free
downloadable 'interpreters' to play text adventures written in Inform. With one
of these, you can play the two games mentioned below, all free. Emily
Short: interactive fiction, games and theory from the author of "Galatea" Adam
Cadre's "Photopia". Play this game too. Huge
archive of text adventure games
Essays,
conlang creation guide, etc. Rene
Perelmutter: language, myth, folklore, etc. Links
to some obscure languages Constructed
languages Guide
to Japanese Pictograms
Eric Swab: Graphix and explanations of 4d geometry Excellent
illustrated introduction to the regular 4d shapes Interactive
animations using 3d 'foldouts' to represent the tesseract and other 4d equivalents
to the Platonic solids George
Olshevsky: "Uniform Polytopes in Four Dimensions"
Jonathan Bowers: more 4d geometry 4d
animations
Fractal
links and pictures Introduction
to fractals, gallery & links Introduction to Julia sets and the Mandelbrot Fractal
program with free trial Stephen
Ferguson: free programmes for drawing fractals Another
downloadable fractal programme Fractals
made with 4d algebras (quaternion & hypercomplex)
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