Interactive Fiction Language

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Interactive Fiction Competition Opens

Interactive Fiction Competition Opens 04/17/2004 09:59 PM

Zinc Interactive Fiction Interpreter

Zinc Interactive Fiction Interpreter 06/23/2004 10:51 AM
2003-05-16: Zinc 1.01 Released

FML: Fiction Markup Language

FML: Fiction Markup Language 01/16/2004 11:33 AM

When is someone going to come up with Fiction Markup Language — an XML spec solely for annotating fiction? For example:

Take perhaps the greatest novel ever written: Ian Fleming's 1953 classic "Casino Royale." Let's break this down from a big chunk of text to make up something more usable.

Obviously, you could mark the chapters and section numbers, but let's go further into the actual content of the narrative. Begin by surrounding all spoken text with tags. For example:

Perhaps you can have another attribute for "target" to identify to whom he's speaking. Then I could do an XPath query to find everything James Bond said to Vesper Lynd in the entire book.

And how about locations? Surround passages with their physical location, like the casino floor, Bond's hotel room, etc. (where appropriate — wouldn't work in all situations). I could then use XPath to find all the unique locations in the book (this would be great for the globe-hopping James Bond novels).

Identify "action" passages and mark them. How about the death of a character? Mark them so I can immediately find out where Le Chiffre was killed and read how it happened.

Introductions of characters are another thing. Mark the first appearance of each character so if I can't remember who someone is, I can go back and find where they first appeared and who they are.

I'm reading Tom Clancy's "Politika" right now, and I can hardly keep track of everyone. It'd be handy to be able to print a "report" showing who everyone is. (A good ebook client implementation of this would know what page the reader was on and not report anything past that page as to not spoil anything.)

Maybe mark the beginning and ending of pages as they appeared in the original publication. And have some way for an expert to insert commentary about the text.

James Bond novels are one thing, but imagine if someone did this for, say, "War and Peace". It would be like Cliffs Notes embedded in the text of the book.

There's unexplored potential here. I can't be the first person to think of this. (And another question: is this just an attempt to completely suck the soul right out of fiction? Should we just leave it the hell alone?)

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Interactive Language Training on a Chip

Interactive Language Training on a Chip 09/23/2004 02:41 AM
New Technologies from Sensory allow English Lessons on Handheld Devices [PRWEB Sep 23, 2004]

GLE (interactive Graphics Language
Editor) 4.0.8 (Default branch)

GLE (interactive Graphics Language
Editor) 4.0.8 (Default branch) 03/19/2005 03:22 AM
GLE (interactive Graphics Language Editor) is a high-quality graphics package for scientists, combining a user-friendly interface with a full range of facilities for producing publication-quality graphs, diagrams, posters and slides. GLE provides LaTeX quality fonts together with a flexible graphics module which allows the user to specify any feature of a graph (down to the line width of the subticks, for example). Complex pictures can be drawn with user-defined subroutines and simple looping structures. Current output formats include EPS, PS, PDF, JPEG, and PNG.

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Changes:
This release features one executable "gle" instead of one for each driver "gle_ps" and "gle_svg". It now outputs to .pdf/ .png/.jpeg. There is support for LaTeX expressions in GLE scripts using the command "tex" or the macro "\tex{}", and support for bitmap import. There are options "impulses", "steps", "fsteps", and "hist" for the graph command "dn line". There are new options for the box commands and the key module, new functions "format$" for formatting numbers, "pagewidth()", "pageheight()", "width(name)", "height(name)", "pointx(name)", and "pointy(name)", and a new command "print" for writing to the command prompt.

2ndNature, an Interactive studio,
Launches Several New Interactive
Projects for Corporate Clients in the
Northeast U.S.

2ndNature, an Interactive studio,
Launches Several New Interactive
Projects for Corporate Clients in the
Northeast U.S. 02/05/2005 09:49 PM
2ndNature, a Central New York-based website design and development studio has recently completed several interactive projects for clients that include VIYYA Technologies of New Jersey, ChaseDesign of Skaneateles, NY, Adirondack & St. Lawrence Railway of Utica NY, QPK Design of Syracuse, NY, Terakeet Corp., of Syracuse, NY, PPC/John Mezzalingua Associates of Syracuse, NY, Welch Allyn of Skaneateles, NY. [PRWEB Feb 4, 2005]

Focus on the Family and Digital Praise
Unveil Two New Interactive Computer
Games Based on Adventures in Odyssey;
One of America’s Most Popular Family
Radio Shows Comes to Life in Interactive
Computer Games

Focus on the Family and Digital Praise
Unveil Two New Interactive Computer
Games Based on Adventures in Odyssey;
One of America’s Most Popular Family
Radio Shows Comes to Life in Interactive
Computer Games 06/30/2004 03:04 AM
New game titles announced for ages 8 and up; Titles based on Adventures in Odyssey radio show. [PRWEB Jun 30, 2004]

Fiction

Fiction 08/06/2004 02:49 PM
The Shore, a short-stor y by Richard Ford.

Best fiction of 2003

Best fiction of 2003 01/11/2004 03:47 AM
Salon's picks for the year's finest novels include off-center tales of the '70s, the slavery era and the Lewis and Clark expedition, a battle with troublesome software code, and the purgatory of boarding school.

When Is a Fact a Fiction?

When Is a Fact a Fiction? 08/27/2004 02:11 PM
Microsoft's "Get the Facts" campaign is getting the company in hot water again. This time it's the British Advertising Standards Authority questioning Redmond's claims of superiority over Linux. Microsoft is shrugging off the criticism as much ado about nothing.

Samurai Fiction

Samurai Fiction 04/17/2005 06:15 AM

After an unusually busy Saturday morning, putting out a fire related to load balancing for a client and trying out an integration test for a milestone due Monday, I watched Samurai Fiction.  Boy, what a stupid boring movie.  It's only enjoyable spot was the aging ninja.

Hypertext Fiction

Hypertext Fiction 04/25/2004 11:01 AM
Howard S. Becker: A New Art Form: Hypertext Fiction

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The Fiction Bitch

The Fiction Bitch 09/09/2004 06:12 PM
Fiction Bitch "The Fiction Bitch doesn't want to encourage new writers. She wants to weed out terrible writers before they go on to bore millions of innocent publishing house interns to tears."

Legal Fiction

Legal Fiction 12/24/2004 01:08 PM
Publius€™s post .. concludes .. piece

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" Which Author's Fiction are You? "

" Which Author's Fiction are You? " 11/13/2003 03:07 AM

SCO DoS attack: fact or fiction?

SCO DoS attack: fact or fiction? 12/14/2003 03:28 AM
Since SCO first reported the DDoS attack against, some serious doubts have arisen about the veracity of their claim. What's the true story?

Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind?

Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind? 08/17/2004 01:37 AM

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“Wandering through the exhibition room at a science-fiction convention in Boston a few months ago, I saw plenty of reprints of golden-age SF classics for sale. But I also encountered paintings of half-naked people battling dragons, vendors hawking crystals and a folk musician warming up for a recital. Where is the science in science fiction? I wondered. Whatever happened to envisioning the future? Anthropologist Judith Berman, who recently surveyed a crop of science fiction published…

"Science Fiction Museum"

"Science Fiction Museum" 06/13/2004 02:39 AM

Pulp Fiction -- new RSS reader for Mac
OSX

Pulp Fiction -- new RSS reader for Mac
OSX 04/19/2004 09:45 AM
Coming to beta for Mac OS X on May 1st: a new RSS reader called "Pulp Fiction." Link (thanks, Jean-Luc )

It's only fiction, but is it legal? |
csmonitor.com

It's only fiction, but is it legal? |
csmonitor.com 07/30/2004 05:26 PM
Legality explored of Nicholson Baker’s fact-based argument (in fiction) for assassinating Dub-Dub .. New novel by acclaimed author examines the moral argument for killing President Bush .. Is it illegal to write a novel about killing the President?

csmonitor.com/2004/0730/p11s02-bogn.html
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Truth- More Annoying Than Fiction!

Truth- More Annoying Than Fiction! 08/30/2004 01:35 PM

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Well, having run down the rest of the page referenced in my revised “Rumor?” post, it appears that those little Microsoftians have been busy. Unfortunately, they’ve been busy figuring out ways to break Windows XP under the guise of ‘improving’ security. As you go down the page you may start to wonder why Windows XP works at all after installing the SP-2 patch. Something that I think will catch Messenger users by surprise, since I…

Which Author's Fiction are You? -
Quizilla

Which Author's Fiction are You? -
Quizilla 11/12/2003 11:33 PM
Which Author's Fiction are You?

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Science Fiction and Religion

Science Fiction and Religion 01/19/2004 10:41 AM
I was reading an interview with Ted Chiang, and the first lines struck me: All science fiction is fundamentally post-religious literature. For those whose minds are shaped by science and technology, the universe is fundamentally knowable. Faith dissolves, replaced by a sense of wonder at the complexity of creation.What do you think of this?

Truth is stranger than fiction

Truth is stranger than fiction 07/15/2004 11:56 PM
Well, unless you're reading Phil Dick, at least. Just sent Python::Bytecode 2.6 to CPAN (knowing, bluntly, that I broke the tests) because the translator now works, at least for simple programs. Woohoo! My first victim program was simple--the test shipped with Python::Bytecode. So this: a = 2 b = 3 if a: print a, b c = a + b print cdoes, in fact, print 2 3 5Go figure. I'm not sure which is more bizarre--the fact that it works, or the fact that I actually wrote correct Python code. (By the time this is all done I'm going to...

New Futurismic fiction online

New Futurismic fiction online 09/01/2004 07:49 AM
Cory Doctorow: Jeremy sez, "I just posted a new story from Tom Doyle called 'Art's Appreciation' to Futurismic Fiction. The title character is the kind of psychotic violence-prone anti-hero we'll all be cheering for if the spammers, the ad flacks and the copyright goons get their way." Link (Thanks, Jeremy!)

DateTime-Fiction-JRRTolkien-Shire-0.01

DateTime-Fiction-JRRTolkien-Shire-0.01 12/07/2003 06:25 PM

Futurismic's new fiction from a Campbell
nominee

Futurismic's new fiction from a Campbell
nominee 08/01/2004 05:01 AM
Futurismic is a group blog run by a bunch of great sf writers, who've raised a modest sum of money that they use to pay for science fiction stories which they publish on their site. They've just put up a new one, "Benno On Hollywood," written by one of this year's Campbell Award and Hugo Award finalists, Jay Lake.

He’s not a bad guy, our Benno, out cruising for chicks on Sepulveda or trying to score some vaca blanca on Hollywood. He’s local color for the tourists who still come, even now, with his shaved head and the Santeria tattoos his Auntie Bone put down his scalp and neck and on across his back and arms. The skulls and goats and twisty barbed wire can all be seen through the grubby wife beater with the tiny manga girl hand-drawn on the front. Three Lincoln pennies dangle from one ear, each on its own wire hoop — stabbed in by hand, no spray-on painkiller shit. Other ear’s got a vintage plastic cattle tag from the late twen-cen meat industry.

Link (Thanks, Jeremy!)

Computer virus, fact or fiction?

Computer virus, fact or fiction? 06/04/2004 10:25 AM
A hilarious novel about a computer genius forced to create a virus to make ends meet. Based on real events. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2004]

Hugo nominated fiction online

Hugo nominated fiction online 05/11/2004 03:17 PM
Here's a list of this year's Hugo Award nominees, with links to the full text of the nominated works for those that are online (all the short works but one are on the Web! None of the novels, though). Link

Female Webmasters - Fact or Fiction?

Female Webmasters - Fact or Fiction? 12/19/2004 03:07 PM
"Just curious to know if there is any female webmasters."

SCO and Microsoft: Sorting the fact from
the fiction

SCO and Microsoft: Sorting the fact from
the fiction 01/04/2005 01:08 PM
ZDNet Jan 4 2005 5:12PM GMT

Cyber Blackmail Fact or Fiction

Cyber Blackmail Fact or Fiction 12/30/2003 04:59 AM
Imagine someone sending you a e-mail message threatening to Blackmail you by saying that they will either wipe your computer...

Hugo-Nominated Fiction: 2004

Hugo-Nominated Fiction: 2004 05/12/2004 12:44 PM
Hugo-Nominated Fiction for 2004 Includes links to free stories .. links to on-line versions

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Fiction foreshadows reality in EU case

Fiction foreshadows reality in EU case 12/28/2004 05:11 AM
After months of anticipation, a judge last week rejected Microsoft Corp.'s bid to suspend two key European antitrust remedies. But long before that, a separate case involving a company called Macrosoft provided some reliable clues to the decision. That was the thinly veiled name of the imaginary corporation in a fictional antitrust case concocted by London's Financial Times newspaper. The paper conceived the scenario for purposes of a hypothetical question that it posed to Bo Vesterdorf, a judge in the European Court of First Instance, in an interview more than a year ago.

MSNBC - Fiction: New Snack Attack

MSNBC - Fiction: New Snack Attack 12/25/2004 05:00 PM
grab the goldfish cracker cover .. New Snack Attack .. May 24

msnbc.msn.com/id/4980531
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First Unofficial k5 Fiction Challenge:
Nov. 30, 2003

First Unofficial k5 Fiction Challenge:
Nov. 30, 2003 11/07/2003 06:36 AM
The K5 fiction section is much derided for a) not belonging on a tech/culture site and b) offering only low quality drivel by uninspired hacks. I am not here to try to convince believers of either of these propositions otherwise. I am here to offer an entertaining proposal for those who believe neither. I present to you: THE FIRST UNOFFICIAL k5 FICTION CHALLENGE

DateTime-Fiction-JRRTolkien-Shire-0.02

DateTime-Fiction-JRRTolkien-Shire-0.02 12/07/2003 06:25 PM

Is Science Fiction About The Future
Anymore?

Is Science Fiction About The Future
Anymore? 09/11/2004 10:46 AM

Military Draft - Fact or fiction?

Military Draft - Fact or fiction? 04/13/2004 02:02 PM
Men aged 18-25, have you got your lighters ready? It's going to be d raft time soon, according to the Nader campaign. The Selective Service denies it.
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