The Wings Go Club has a bunch of PDF Go books including a beginners guide, commented games, and some interesting guides to making the most out of handicap stones (the latter are also available in .doc format).
If you prefer physical books and are in Australia, J.W. & S. Hardy have a nice selection.
A full clone of Super Mario Brothers has been implemented in Javascript.
If that doesn’t light your fire, try Lemmings in DHTML
James Randi has released the full text of his Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural online for free. James Randi hopes the move will boost sales of the print edition — via boingboing
When I decided to place the entire text … on the Internet, it was suggested to me that this could cut into the sales of the printed version. However, experience has shown that, in the publishing business, making a book available on the Internet only stimulates sales of the actual book! Another mystery
Derrick Hixson has submitted an amazing entry to the MacMod Mod Competition, a Millennium Falcon: complete with Mac mini and iSight. It even includes front USB ports. His modguide contains complete build instructions, and plenty of pictures
A police box has been discovered embedded in a brick wall in Glasgow’s east end. The Mark Two cast-iron box dates back to 1912, and is the oldest known example in the city. Glasgow Police Museum plan to rescue it, restore it to its former glory and put it on display from next spring. Meanwhile, new hi-tech police boxes are being introduced to Glasgow — via Doctor Who News
Thousands of German Harry Potter fans who could not wait for the latest JK Rowling epic to be published in their own language have translated the book in less than two days. The hobby translators
were too impatient to wait the 77 days required by German translator Klaus Fritz to complete the task and logged on to Harry-auf-Deutsch.de to finish the job in 45 hours — via BoingBoing
Some US libraries are using Microsoft Media DRM to automatically return audiobooks checked out of their catalogue. A patron with a valid library card visits a library Web site to borrow a title for, say, three weeks. When the audiobook is due, the patron must renew it or find it automatically returned
in a virtual sense: The file still sits on the patron’s computer, but encryption makes it unplayable beyond the borrowing period
The Ministry of Reshelving is a collaborative political prank / game in which participants move copies of books, such as George Orwell’s 1984, to non-fiction sections, such as US History or True Crime — via BoingBoing
Mark Forman, a podcaster, is reading Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom on his podcast with regular, chapter-by-chapter readings, mixed in with music — via boingboing
The DVD of Sin City came without any director’s commentary, so the Spoilers, a podcast of podcasters, made their own and released it as an MP3 intended to be played simultaneous with the movie. You could even load it onto an MP3 player and wear noise-cancelling headphones to the cinema and get their commentary instead of the film’s audio — via boingboing
The BBC views the piracy of a Doctor Who episode before its broadcast date earlier this year as a wake-up call about the demand for new technology
, in a refreshing change of opinion from most media/broadcasting corporations, who would damn this piracy without hesitation. They are forming plans to simulcast the television channels BBC1 and BBC2 on the web, as well as allowing users (only in the UK to start with, unfortunately) access to shows for a week after the broadcast date. Other BBC3 comedies are due to follow suit and become available on the internet first
As recently as this time last year, a podcast — a digital audio program that lives on the Internet — would have meant very little to most people. But today there are thousands of web sites devoted to the technology; major media outlets have started releasing some of their broadcasts via podcast; and even cult favorite Neil Gaiman has posted the first few chapters of the audio version of his Anansi Boys on his blog.
Scott Sigler‘s podcasting got him a deal with the publisher Dragon Moon Press after the publisher heard his audio version of EarthCore. And a new site, Podiobooks.com, has launched, with five titles already available for download. Its co-founder, Evo Terra, a podcaster for the online talk show The Dragon Page, notes that, as of this writing, 19 new authors have signed on to release free audio versions of their books through the site — via boingboing
A vendor in a Stormtrooper suit (with a plastic laser gun) at a Star Wars convention in Janesville, Wisconsin, was surrounded by police after someone called the police and said that there was an armed robber
in fancy white armour at the local Ramada — via BoingBoing
Christopher Walken for President 2008. Make of that what you will — via Warren Ellis
Charlie Stross just won the Hugo award for best novella for The Concrete Jungle. How can you not love a geek whose response to a Hugo win is a resounding w00t! Congrats Charlie
Two prominent science fiction authors have recently released their newest novels as free downloads to coincide with their in-store releases.
The first is Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, by Cory Doctorow. This is an unconventional story about an entrepreneur, who happens to be the child of a mountain and a washing machine, who gets involved in a scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless mesh network, among other things.
If you want to get hold of a signed copy, you can order it through Aust Gate. The overseas shipping is reasonably priced, but super fast. My copy was posted on Monday and arrived on Friday.
The second is Accelerando, by Charles Stross, which tells the tale of three generations of the Macx family, beginning with perptually-slashdotted venture altruist Manfred Macx, in the years leading up to and beyond a technological singularity — via Slashdot
It took four months work, to casemod a 70s Dalek. Power LEDs are in the yellow domes and the power switch is in the eye
The lightsabre used by intergalactic hero Luke Skywalker in Star Wars has sold for US$264,000 at an auction of Hollywood props that fetched far more than expected. The deadly laser sword brandished by actor Mark Hamill in the original 1977 film was the star among 550 pieces of movie memorabilia that went on the block and fetched a total of more than US$2.6 million
www.designersinhouse.com – a mailing list for all you inhouse web designers out there wanting to whinge to each other about your similar occupational gripes.
I often find it hard to get my company to pay for training/seminars, so I was surprised when my half-arsed request to go to Web Essentials 2005 was granted with a positive full arse, and one of my co-workers for company.
New macs are out: iBook and mac mini. That’s great Steve, but where the fuck is the Australian iTunes store?
I’ve finished Harry Potter 6 and I liked it alot. Aside from character names, I think the most used word in the book was “snogging” due mainly to Won-Won. This interview with JK Rowling over at mugglenet, is worth a read, but make sure you finish the book first.
I’m really loving savage chickens. Here’s one of my fave’s creativity.
patchoforange has very nice sketches, including cute kitties.
bye-bye
A study by digital music research firm The Leading Question, found that people who download music from peer to peer networks paid for four and a half times more music than regular music fans. Also that most of these people are extremely enthusiastic about paid-for services, as long as they are suitably compelling
. What is nice is that the BPI welcomed the findings that not all file sharers are actually evil… they still pledged to carry on the carrot and stick
approach though
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