Once mastered, Words can be constrained to five or less Characters.
Experienced players, may choose to restrict Words to exactly five Characters.
Grammar, Language and Structure can be ignored, or remixed, for poetic effect.
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Our overseas adventures begin in September. As I will be working while abroad, I wish to compile a collection of essential Windows tools to bring along on CD. (I'm hoping that the majority of these tools will be freeware.) Along with this CD, I will bring The Ultimate Boot CD, (as well as this Windows-based boot CD.)
What freeware/shareware applications do you consider essential? Submit your list as a comment.
Please forward the permalink for this post to your friends, so that they can contribute as well.
Here is the preliminary tools list:
Blogging as constrained writing. When else do I write?
- Emails
- Shopping Lists
- The Odd Poem
A roundup of constrained writing on the web. Constrained Thinking: From Network to Membrane.
"This thesis discusses the importance of the book as image, object, and text. [With] specific examples as they pertain to the publishing of books in general and to Daniel Richler's Kicking Tomorrow (1991-3) in particular" - Image, Object, Text
The translation of Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone into Ancient Greek.
How to Read a Philosophy Paper (including this one.)
Chomsky for Philosophers.
The Philosopher's Game - A description of the fascinating game, Rythmomachy.
Flatland - A romance of many dimensions - By Edwin A. Abbott 1838-1926.
Prophetable colors - A look at the Color Marketing Group. "The CMG is a trade organization, with 1,500 members drawn from a bunch of different industries. Twice a year they get together in Alexandria, VA, to come up with long-term and short-term color predictions."
"A thousand goals have there been so far, for there have been a thousand peoples. Only the yoke for the thousand necks is still lacking: the one goal is lacking. Humanity still has no goal" - Nietzsche and the Body of Knowledge - The philosophy of archaeology.
J(erome) D(avid) Salinger - Uncollected Writings.
Narratech - Storytelling in the digital age - Theory Links.
Informal Music Analysis: A Critique of Formalism, Semiology, and Narratology As Discourses on Music.
Syntactic Theory of Visual Communication, Part One. ("There can be no words without images." -Aristotle)
Dirk Gently's I-Ching Calculator.
For the math nerds: Autologlyphs.
40 remixes of original Nintendo soundtrack material.
The evolution of western thinking about nature. Our quest to distance ourselves from the earth.
Subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale.
The robots are coming. The robots are coming.
Self-reference : "This entry is about self-reference, so (inevitably), it refers to itself." - From the BBC's guide to life, the universe and everything: h2g2.
Also found at h2g2:
- English Strong and Weak Verbs
- The Development of Our Alphabet
How's that for constraint? ;)
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If programming books read like why's (poignant) guide to ruby, I would smile more often. (Related: why the lucky stiff)
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If you use del.icio.us, flip: Extispicious, is an "automatically recombinant memeplex. [...] Tags are scraped from a quiet corner of del.icio.us and cached for a day."
It started with this diagram and this script.
Extispicious visualizations can get very complex. (Check the second image.)
I use spurl to ping my links to del.icio.us. Manually entering a category, with each del.icio.us update, would lead to a more complex map with low-weighted links.
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Jack Kerouac - Dean Moriarity - Poetry for the Beat Generation.
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The much hyped book, The Rule of Four, centres on a 15th-century manuscript, The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Although the book is a work of fiction, the manuscript truly exists.
"The action of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili takes place in a dream. The books opens on the hero, Poliphilo, who has spent a restless night because his beloved, Polia, has shunned him. At the break of day, he finally falls into a deep slumber and his 'Hypnerotomachia,' or, as it can be roughly translated, 'struggle for love in a dream,' begins."
The above quote was taken from this e-book, which explores the mysterious manuscript.
A scanned copy of the HP is also available.
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I want to learn Latin. Previously, I posted a link to TextKit, an online source for free Ancient Greek and Latin e-books. Since then, I have discovered the following:
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Icon Semiotics: A Common Visual Representation.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Video Lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman. (Related: E-Textbook for this course.)
The sixteen first rules of fiction.
Alternative Handwriting and Shorthand Systems. (Related: Handywrite)
GAlib - A C++ Library of Genetic Algorithm Components.
Numerical Recipes in C - An online version of this must-have programming guide.
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