Here’s something interesting from the GURPS Transhuman Space mailing list: a map of all the world’s known spaceports. Actually, these are just launching sites. And they list Palmachim as well. Heck, if Israel can have a launch pad, anyone can.
Here’s a useful article: Oliver Wrede explains UserLand’s weird and wonderful software (“Radio UserLand”) to people who haven’t been Davewatching for X years. Very worth reading if you want to understand the cool application I’m using to write this :o).
[Scripting News]
A couple of crisises which Superheroes could tackle:
Brazilian oil rig stabilised. The Brazilian state oil company says engineers have stopped its damaged off-shore oil rig from sinking. [BBC News: world]
Oil rigs are fascinating – giant structures at sea, they would be an excellent setting for an action scene, especially a sinking oil rig…
Struggle to reach US crash victims. Rescuers struggle to help victims of a train crash in remote Iowa farmland, in which one person died and 90 were injured. [BBC News: world]
Notice that in both cases, rescue operations are hampered by (a) weather and (b) geographically remote location (remote? that train crashed in Iowa!)
I could use either of these in my superhero scenario, Nephilim.
Still playing around with my export/import scripts. I’d like to know what in MyUserLandData.root really needs to be replicated – blog, categories and services seem to be the biggies.
Here’s a cool toy to play with, written in Flash: www.heromachine.com. It let’s you design costumes for superheroes or fantasy characters. Addictive.