Curveship: Interactive Fiction + Interactive Narrating
february 2011 by bkerr
Curveship is an interactive fiction system that provides a world model (of characters, objects, locations, and things that happen) while also modeling the narrative discourse, so that the narration and description of the simulated world can change. Curveship can tell events out of order, using flashback and other techniques, and can tell the story from the standpoint of particular characters and their perceptions and understandings.
lit
if
python
weird
february 2011 by bkerr
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Reloaded).
december 2008 by bkerr
Peter Watts weblog.
lit
sf
rifters
weblogs
december 2008 by bkerr
The New Yorker | Onward and Upward with the Arts: Future Reading -- Digitization and its discontents, by Anthony Grafton
computer lit lib text context archive libraries teh-googe informons qnalitas writing printing marginalia scanning edu research retrieval infinite perfected digitized future
november 2007 by bkerr
computer lit lib text context archive libraries teh-googe informons qnalitas writing printing marginalia scanning edu research retrieval infinite perfected digitized future
november 2007 by bkerr
Digital Humanities Quarterly | Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original “Adventure” in Code and in Kentucky
august 2007 by bkerr
Pretty awesome. If you get bored (but you won't) make sure to read the "Photographic Walkthrough" section.
lit
text
games
if
narrative
cartography
mapping
spelunking
adventure
remediation
colossal-cave
clock1
clock2
the-dome-is-unclimbable
via:vielmetti
august 2007 by bkerr
Twitter / TwitterLit
may 2007 by bkerr
"Twittering the first lines of books so you don't have to."
twitter
lit
books
micro
introduction
may 2007 by bkerr
No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July
april 2007 by bkerr
"ok, here i go. I'm going to make this whole website right now on this dry-erase board." Maybe "I ache for storms" for this decade.
lit
text
serial
hypertext
design
writing
marketing
♥
!
micro
everything
april 2007 by bkerr
Brian Flemming's Weblog
april 2007 by bkerr
Co-author of "Bat Boy: The Musical."
lit
film
etc
weblogs
april 2007 by bkerr
Liana’s paperdoll blog | Rheya’s white beach dress from Solaris (book)
march 2007 by bkerr
"I read Solaris carefully, but all we know is that when Rheya returns, she wears a white beach dress. No visible fastenings -- the buttons are ornamental -- and short sleeves that hide the evidence of her suicide."
lit
sf
solaris
rheya
harey
mimoid
ultra
teleology
terror
solipsist
incompleteness
tragedy
march 2007 by bkerr
Oztrading.net | The Oz Library
march 2007 by bkerr
"(almost) complete readable online library of OZ magazines - Enjoy!"
magazine
psychedelic
retro
lit
graphic
design
obscenity
magic-theatre
march 2007 by bkerr
Google Search | "Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years.
google search fun lit sf neal-stephenson snow-crash imagination planning baddest-motherfucker martial-arts-monastery colombian-drug-dealers revenge disease streets crime
march 2007 by bkerr
google search fun lit sf neal-stephenson snow-crash imagination planning baddest-motherfucker martial-arts-monastery colombian-drug-dealers revenge disease streets crime
march 2007 by bkerr
Foreign Office | Children of Men
february 2007 by bkerr
Media + multimedia + interactive media from "Children of Men" -- nice to get a closer look at some of the micro details in a very hectic haptic happening movie.
media
advertising
ui
interaction
design
future
lit
sf
politics
february 2007 by bkerr
The New Yorker | The New Disorder, by David Denby
february 2007 by bkerr
Film column from 2007-03-05 magazine. Hypertext / cut-up / synchronic movies, as directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
hypertext
movies
cut-up
film
smash-word-lines
smash-control-lines
cyclical
cybernetics
psycho
narrative
lit
february 2007 by bkerr
The Futurologician Congress
february 2007 by bkerr
Joshua has seen the future and it is tagtagging, friendzilla, and netdriving. Oldie but goodie.
lit
sf
language
wordie
fun
via:revgeorge
february 2007 by bkerr
Post Cards in the Soft Machine
february 2007 by bkerr
"As it happens, the phrase 'post card' appears over and over again in the flow of short, post-card-like notices that make up large parts of The Soft Machine." turns into punch cards in the 2nd part of the cut-up trilogy.
burroughs
post
card
break-through-in-the-grey-room
media
social-media
lit
language
process
february 2007 by bkerr
The Electronic Revolution II, by William Burroughs
february 2007 by bkerr
"Cutup techniques could swamp the mass media with total illusion." END OF THE WAR GAME
burroughs
immediast
control-towers
control-machines
word-falling
photo-falling
break-through-in-the-grey-room
cybernetics
feedback
media
social-media
metacrap
information
writing
lit
communication
process
language
language-is-a-virus-from-outer-space
end-of-the-war-game
february 2007 by bkerr
The Electronic Revolution I: Feedback from Watergate to the Garden of Eden, by William Burroughs
february 2007 by bkerr
"In the Electronic Revolution I advance the theory that a virus is a very small unit of word and image. I have suggested now such units can be biologically activated to act as communicable virus strains."
burroughs
immediast
control-towers
control-machines
word-falling
photo-falling
break-through-in-the-grey-room
cybernetics
feedback
media
social-media
metacrap
information
writing
lit
communication
process
language
language-is-a-virus-from-outer-space
end-of-the-war-game
february 2007 by bkerr
Babel-17 | Oort-Cloud
february 2007 by bkerr
Thanks Paul and Richard, this is pretty awesome (gotta do something about that theme though)
onoff
algol
fortran
oort-cloud
open
lit
scifi
february 2007 by bkerr
Grand Text Auto | Beavers All
february 2007 by bkerr
Nick Montfort <-- assistant professor of digital media, MIT.
text
hypertext
lit
if
edu
february 2007 by bkerr
RolandHT
january 2007 by bkerr
Background on / justification of the project.
lit
text
hypertext
comparison
interface
song-of-roland
january 2007 by bkerr
Roland's Corpus / RolandHT
january 2007 by bkerr
Load in your XSLT-friendly browser (Firefox or Opera) for a super engaging exploration of Roland in text <--> culture.
lit
text
hypertext
comparison
interface
song-of-roland
xslt
january 2007 by bkerr
THE OLAF STAPLEDON ONLINE ARCHIVE
december 2006 by bkerr
"This site attempts to host works by Olaf Stapledon that are out of print. Now you've found it, click on the 'Online Works' section and enjoy!" AWESOME
lit
sf
past
december 2006 by bkerr
Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala
november 2006 by bkerr
A story from the "Wikipedia Brown, Boy Detective" series, by Adam Cadre.
lit
wikipedia
fun
november 2006 by bkerr
Urban Oasis | Oh, Irony! Oh, Beautiful Muse!
november 2006 by bkerr
An Arthur Miller -- Charles Walgreen connection/irony on U-M north campus.
umich
annarbor
theater
lit
labor
edu
past
november 2006 by bkerr
History 131: The One Ring and its Influence on Novel Applications of Modern Middle Earth
november 2006 by bkerr
Check out the class schedule and the sample exam.
lit
edu
fun
via:msittig
november 2006 by bkerr
Charlie's Diary: "The book is not that interesting, as tales of desperation and survival are actually quite common."
november 2006 by bkerr
"What do the public really think of literature? Here are some examples, in the form of reviews culled from the reader comments on Amazon.com."
lit
peer-production
amazon
book
review
fun
via:srah
november 2006 by bkerr
Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories
october 2006 by bkerr
"33 writers. 5 designers. 6-word science fiction."
lit
sf
microcrap
october 2006 by bkerr
Matt's 31st Birthday (Battlestar Galactica Cakes) - a photoset on Flickr
october 2006 by bkerr
The Resurrection Ship cake is probably my favorite.
lit
sf
bsg
food
october 2006 by bkerr
Wikipedia | Cylon, Wisconsin
september 2006 by bkerr
"Cylon is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 629 at the 2000 census."
lit
sf
names
wisconsin
september 2006 by bkerr
App After App or A zoology of next year's web applications
september 2006 by bkerr
Slides and notes from Matt Webb's presentation @ BarCamp London.
web
ui
design
classification
lit
sf
fun
september 2006 by bkerr
McSweeney's Internet Tendency | Social Security Denies Gregor Samsa's Disability Claim.
september 2006 by bkerr
"You listed the following impairment(s) on your SSI application: I AM A GIGANTIC COCKROACH / DEPRESSION / BACK PAIN"
lit
fun
cockroach
september 2006 by bkerr
AlterNet: WorkPlace | A Jungle For Meatpackers
september 2006 by bkerr
Eric Schlosser's Upton Sinclair retrospective.
food
commerce
labor
lit
past
september 2006 by bkerr
Wikipedia | De Selby
september 2006 by bkerr
Your favorite fictional philosopher.
wikipedia
philosophy
philosopher-madman
lit
destruction
etc
september 2006 by bkerr
The "Verbs Bad" Manifesto
september 2006 by bkerr
"Without verbs, pretty good imitation of Yoda! And nothing more! No more erudition, no more delicacy in language! Language a broken mirror, litter of fragments on the page!"
language
lit
writing
fun
via:everyone
september 2006 by bkerr
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
june 2006 by bkerr
"...is a community effort to catalog works of fiction. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection content listings, and fort
lit
sf
fiction
bibliography
past
future
via:ryanmax
june 2006 by bkerr
Adam Cadre on "White Noise"
april 2006 by bkerr
Naturally he'd have something interesting to say about everybody's favorite over-studied novel.
lit
criticism
if
etc
april 2006 by bkerr
ANOTHER WORLD - Site officiel
april 2006 by bkerr
And here's the (incomplete) English version of the site.
games
lit
sf
past
april 2006 by bkerr
ANOTHER WORLD - Site officiel
april 2006 by bkerr
Official site (in French) of the classic game known on these shores as "Out of This World."
games
lit
sf
past
april 2006 by bkerr
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