mjd | garden

Welcome to my digital garden!

Program your computer

• Programming in Lua, 4th ed. (pdf)
• The programming language lua (html): fast, portable, embeddable.
• Mom typesetting macros (html): make your text look pretty.

Play is movement for the brain

• Spellcaster (html): wave hands; cast spells.
• Wolfpack empire (html): internet wargaming from the 1900s.
• The mah-jongg FAQs (html): play with tiles.
• Card game rules (html): play with cards.
• Nomic (html): a game about rules.
• A visual history of chessmen (html): just what it says.
• Pandius (html): all things Mystara.

Netbooks

• The Guide to Herbs for RPGs (txt)
• The Netbook of Armour (txt)
• The Great Net Equipment List (txt)

Open your mind

• Common task (html): one possible roadmap for a humanitarian future.
• Hobonichi daily quotes (html): daily pondering.
• A Georgist's Guerilla Gardening Guide (html): grow things where nothing is growing.

Things are out there

• NASA Horizons ephemeris (telnet): find cosmic things.
• Atlas of the Universe (html): plan your trip.
• Habitable Worlds Catalog (html): find a place to settle in.

Get your steps in

• My Pikmin Bloom page (local link)

Interesting things

• Historical tech tree (html): mining, irrigation, and roads.

Interesting papers

• How complex systems fail (pdf)
• Dissolving the Fermi Paradox (pdf)
• Possibilities for SETI at High Energy (pdf)