Text Adventure Games * Linguistics * The Fourth Dimension * Fractals

 

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"Let Huldah bless the silkworm - the ornaments of the proud are from the bowells of their betters" Christopher Smart's "Jubilate Agno"
http://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/jubilate/index.html

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
http://www.themagicanarchist.com

Blank Page http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/

Lucid dreaming techniques & research
http://www.lucidity.com

Usable memorisation tricks - if you can get past the advertising...
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_TIM.htm

Alan Krill: numerical memory systems, mnemonics, history & practise
http://placevaluenumbers.com/index.htm

Omniglot: writing systems of the world, and other places http://www.omniglot.com/

Atatatatatatattaattatattatatatta!!!
http://www.monkeyheaven.com

Milorad Pavic
http://www.khazars.com

Alejandro Jodorowsky
http://www.hotweird.com/jodorowsky/

Robert Anton Wilson
http://rawilson.com/main.shtml

Thomas Pynchon
http://www.hyperarts.com/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
http://www.hedweb.com

'Sacred texts' (broadly defined) from around the world
http://sacred-texts.com/index.htm

Scott McMahan: articles on Tolkien and his sources
http://cyberreviews.skwc.com/cr_more_tolkien_influences.html

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)
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/

 

Text Adventure Games

SPAG: The Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games (Reviews, introduction to modern text adventures, where to find them and how to play)
http://www.sparkynet.com/spag/

Free downloadable 'interpreters' to play text adventures written in Inform. With one of these, you can play the two games mentioned below, all free.
http://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/interpreters.html

Emily Short: interactive fiction, games and theory from the author of "Galatea"
http://emshort.home.mindspring.com/

Adam Cadre's "Photopia". Play this game too.
http://adamcadre.ac/photopia.html

Huge archive of text adventure games
http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXgames.html



Linguistics

Essays, conlang creation guide, etc.
http://www.zompist.com/

Rene Perelmutter: language, myth, folklore, etc.
http://glosses.net/

Links to some obscure languages
http://linguist.org/sp/LangAnalysis.html

Constructed languages
http://www.livejournal.com/community/conlangs

Guide to Japanese Pictograms
http://www.kanjisite.com

 

The Fourth Dimension

Eric Swab: Graphix and explanations of 4d geometry
http://users.adelphi.net/~eswab/

Excellent illustrated introduction to the regular 4d shapes
http://hypermaths.org/quadiblock/math/fdiint.htm

Interactive animations using 3d 'foldouts' to represent the tesseract and other 4d equivalents to the Platonic solids
http://www.weimholt.com

George Olshevsky: "Uniform Polytopes in Four Dimensions"
http://members.aol.com/Polycell/uniform.html

Jonathan Bowers: more 4d geometry
http://members.aol.com/Hedrondude/home.html

4d animations
http://dogfeathers.com/java.index.html

 

Fractals

Fractal links and pictures
http://www.fractalus.com

Introduction to fractals, gallery & links
http://members.aol.com/maksoy/vistfrac/Fracinfo.htm

Introduction to Julia sets and the Mandelbrot
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/julia/explorer.html

Fractal program with free trial
http://www.ultrafractal.com

Stephen Ferguson: free programmes for drawing fractals
http://www.eclectasy.com/Iterations-et-Flarium24/

Another downloadable fractal programme
http://www.apophysis.org

Fractals made with 4d algebras (quaternion & hypercomplex)
http://www.hypercomplex.or

 

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