{"id":450,"date":"2009-10-13T21:49:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T01:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=450"},"modified":"2009-10-13T21:49:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T01:49:25","slug":"of-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2009\/10\/of-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People I know have been up to many things lately, and many of these surely deserve a full, thoughtful blog post. I won&#8217;t manage that, so the least I can do is mention that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Jason Scott <a href=\"http:\/\/ascii.textfiles.com\/archives\/1961\">continues to back up Geocities,<\/a> and, in the process of doing this, has posted page-heaps of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textfiles.com\/underconstruction\/\">under construction<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textfiles.com\/underconstruction\/mail\/\">email<\/a> icons. Warning: ginormous.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Nelson presented his new, uncanny, crapcredible game, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secrettechnology.com\/explode\/evidence.html\"><i>Evidence of Everything Exploding.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jason McIntosh has a great video about a non-digital game, <a href=\"http:\/\/gameshelf.jmac.org\/2009\/09\/episode-7---diplomacy.html\"><i>Diplomacy,<\/i><\/a> that he and friends did during a day-long session, wearing more-ot-less nationally appropriate hats.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><tt><i>zzzZRT: Unit compliance -- 0%. Unit appears incapable of mentioning people with any other first name. Attempting repair...<\/i><\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jill Walker Rettberg has a short and insightful <a href=\"http:\/\/jilltxt.net\/?p=2434\">video about blogging as a way of learning.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert Pinsky&#8217;s libretto was sung in a musical reading of Tod Machover&#8217;s opera <a href=\"http:\/\/opera.media.mit.edu\/projects\/deathandthepowers\/\"><i>Death and the Powers<\/i><\/a> at Cambridge&#8217;s A.R.T. on September 17. The workshop presentation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrepertorytheater.org\/inside\/blog\/death-and-powers-workshop\/4273\">(check out the photos)<\/a> was a major milestone toward a full production of the digitally augmented &#8220;robot pageant,&#8221; which I found zestfully written and very cleverly framed.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of people are playing and reviewing <a href=\"http:\/\/ifcomp.org\">Interactive Fiction Competition<\/a> games. <a href=\"http:\/\/yhlee.livejournal.com\/1585896.html\">A list of way-many reviews<\/a> was put together and is being updated by Yoon Ha Lee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People I know have been up to many things lately, and many of these surely deserve a full, thoughtful blog post. I won&#8217;t manage that, so the least I can do is mention that &#8230; Jason Scott continues to back up Geocities, and, in the process of doing this, has posted page-heaps of under construction &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2009\/10\/of-late\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Of Late&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,28,17,11,3,19],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archiving","tag-blogs","tag-digital","tag-games","tag-if","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}