Category: Awareness

Our latest release is now online. There are so many new things to do and try:

* Check out the potions, spells and wearable items in the new shops.
* Play the hundreds of new games at Game Planet and Spacies.
* Try creating your own mission, or play missions made by others.

* Set up novel ways to open gates, or make puzzles, using item interactions.
* Buy an island, and create an adventure for you and your friends.
* Embed SmallWorlds in your community site or social network page.

A new high quality WordPress theme every month.

Stanford is offering iPhone classes online for free – The Fall 2008 quarter will mark the beginning of a new class: CS193P iPhone Application Programming. We're getting ready for an exciting and new class focused on the iPhone application development using Cocoa Touch.

A nostalgic C64 mystery here: The manual for Mental Blocks claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. I thought that had to be a typo, since every single mixed C64/IBM or Apple/IBM diskette I have ever seen is a “flippy” disk where one side is IBM and the other side is C64 or Apple — until I looked at the FAT12 for the disk and saw that tons of sectors in an interleaved pattern were marked as BAD — very strange usage.

Cappuccino was implemented using a new programming language called Objective-J, which is modelled after Objective-C and built entirely on top of JavaScript. Programs written in Objective-J are interpreted in the client, so no compilation or plugins are required. Objective-J is released alongside Cappuccino in this project and under the LGPL.

Tibetan debates involve two parties: a defender (dam bca' ba), who answers, and a questioner (rigs lam pa). The roles of defender and questioner imply very different commitments, as Daniel Perdue explains: “The defender puts forth assertions for which he is held accountable. The challenger raises qualms to the defender’s

You can photograph or scan designs you've drawn by hand using a pen and paper, and make them physical objects and send them to you in the mail.