Interview with James Wallis of Hogshead Games, where he mentions his school chum Alex Scott, who wrote the impressive Tudor era RPG Maelstorm way back. This was a very cool and quirky game that came out in Puffin books sometime in the depths of the Eighties, and I think the publisher probably thought it was some sort of Fighting Fantasy style thing. As it is, it remains an oddity, a case where a mainstream children’s publisher brought out an Indie RPG.
Renee looks at software for building conlangs (constructed languages), including a cool program that generates glyphs for an alphabet and some that make up words. I played around with some VB thingie called LangMaker a long while back.
The latest version of Trillian does Hebrew. And it’s preeeety.
Nimster pointed me to Andrew Rilstone‘s reviews of the “Lord of the Rings” movie. The first is the niggly is Peter Jackson’s movie any good?, the second is the cool How to Mis-read Lord of the Rings. And yes, he liked the movie. But more importantly, he had clever things to say about it, and about Tolkien as well.
Does Hebrew work in Radio 7 as well? I’ve set radio.html.perfs.isoFilter to false, so let’s give it a go:
æä ðñéåï ìëúåá áòáøéú – åòí ñéîåðé HTML, ëîåáï.
Nope. It doesn’t work properly – the Hebrew is preserved in the weblog view, but is transformed into ´&agrav;&acrap; on my actual homepage.
So, that’s one good reason to upgrade (and pay).