Follow my near daily trip through the internet from one topic to the next that it engenders, in the spirit of the old Encyclopedia Game.
My little project for meandering through the encyclopedic knowledge of the internet has been backburnered for a short time, but I thought I’d pick up where I left off in the Dutch colonies of Dutch Guiana and Dutch Guinea. Whither to go? I started in on the Dutch Colonial Empire, at one time scattered around… Read More Game On – Going Dutch
There we were, humming along with Strauss and suddenly we find ourselves proudly flying the banner of Flevoland – which is not, despite your initial reaction, an imaginary country – I feel like I’m in training for a Wiki Race, only I don’t have an end target, and I keep stepping outside of Wikipedia. So,… Read More Game On – Lake of Tears
Oh, the ways that this game convolutes. From my last post on the fantasy worlds of Asemic Writing… let’s see how the leaps and bounds went. Jorge Borges figured into the whole picture, based on his short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, which, while not Asemic Writing as it’s perfectly comprehensible in terms of language,… Read More Game On – The Big Z
Oh, there were so many ways I could have gone after yesterday’s Lorem Ipsum piece. Could I have gone to Etaoin Shrdlu, another remnant phrase of typesetting days, specifically the Linotype machine? Certainly. But that’s just a foray into an older version of Qwerty, which we all know from typing on a modern keyboard. Of… Read More Game On – Fantastic Worlds
Yesterday I started off with a little “encyclopedia game” with a randomly selected Wikipedia page on Dog Latin. While there were many directions I could have gone from that page or the various other pages on the topic I pulled up, the most interesting one, and the one that caught my eye as it fulfilled… Read More Game On – Seeking Pain and Pleasure
Yesterday, doing my weekly run through of new videos posted on Ted.com I came across this fun little reinterpretation of the “encyclopedia game” (which, yes, some of us used to play when I was a kid – it’s the kind of thing that nerds do): …and, it got me thinking that it might be fun… Read More Game On