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Oddities

Secret City Beneath Tokyo

The Japan Times Online – Seven riddles suggest a secret city beneath Tokyo.

bq. Shun claims to have uncovered a secret code that links a complex network of tunnels unknown to the general public. “Every city with a historic subterranean transport system has secrets,” he says. “In London, for example, some lines are near the surface and others very deep, for no obvious reason.”

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Software and Programming

Onyx RSS Parser

ReadingEd.com [v2] has some really cool use of RSS, using his own RSS parser written in PHP, Onyx.

I’m looking for ways to extend Feed my quick RSS hack thingie, which uses this I notice there’s also an RSS parser in Pear, the PHP library.

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Roleplaying

Jazz

roleplaying as jazz, or rather as jam sessions. Me trying to frame stuff I read on the Forge in terms of the “gaming is like playing in a band” metaphor. My thinking about player concerns and play (as opossed to prep) as central leaks out.

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Resources short

Futhark Runes

Runes. What they mean, and a cool font

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Roleplaying short

Mak Attax

Ken Meyer’s cover paintingfor Break Today, the Mak Attax sourcebook for Atlas Games’ Unknown Armies.