The Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol.
Year: 2001
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From this thread What Stephen
From this thread What Stephen ‘Mathematica’ Wolfram’s been up to [Robot Wisdom], which starts with a rant about an interview with Stephan Wolfram, who wrote the legendary program Mathematica, I got to The Finite Nature Hypothesis of Edward Fredkin.
Apparently, Fredkin’s theory is that nature is finite, and can be modelled at the most basic level as a cellular automata. In simpler terms, nature is a computer program.
What he’s saying, quite simply, is that we may be living in The Matrix.
Sir Fred Hoyle, popular opponent of ‘Big Bang’ theory, dead at 86 [from CNN, via Boojie]
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Nice roleplaying stuff on the
Nice roleplaying stuff on the Blackgate Publishing site, including a generic RPG called Jazz that is influenced by Fuzion, Storyteller & Champions/HERO.
Also on that site is a fancy fan page for a famous (well, familiar) movie extra, The Golden Horde: The Al Leong Fan Club.
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John Kim, maintainer of various
John Kim, maintainer of various rec.games.frp.advocacy FAQs and links, has some interesting material on his campaigns (as well as plenty of RPG theory), including this Ripper Game, a non-mythos Call of Cthulhu game set during the Ripper murders, which also features a William Blake Tarot (kewl!).