Jason Scott's Weblog
I will be in Vienna, Austria from the 11th of September through to around the 20th at an event called Paraflows, put on by a group by Monochrom. If you live vaguely close to Vienna, now’s your hot chance to meet me. (I’m looking at you, Philipp Lenssen!) This will only be my second trip […]
So during my time at PAX this past weekend, I was able to shoot a Frontalot video for the next album. There are plans for me to do four of them, although you know how plans are. I finished editing the first version of this video this week, with color and lighting tweaks awaiting me […]
This is about playing video games and watching a movie. On its face, not a particularly unusual-sounding day, but this was my favorite collection of videogames and I’d been waiting for over a year to see this movie. The event is, as I’ve ranted about in the past, the semi-annual Game Day hosted at Luna […]
I don’t normally create weblog entries consisting of a smattering of opinion followed by a link elsewhere. I consider this lazy and barely putting myself above a shell script in terms of enhancing your online time and experience. But sometimes, you just have to hand it to someone and also take some time to hold […]
This arrived in my mail, as pure uncut History. If you care much about RBBS or knowing a little more about Andrew Fluegelman, this will be of interest to you. (The first episode of the BBS Documentary is dedicated to him.) Note that RBBS predates the IBM PC – a version on CPM existed in […]
People who have been enjoying the cool, refreshing, and steady stream of intelligent postings from me over this past year are probably now concerned that I am dead, depressed, or yet another mummified corpse piled on top of the realm of the Defunct Weblog. Well, have no fear. I’m simply doing an enormous amount of […]
A person seeking a real sense of innovation vertigo could not do much better than to browse issues of GIF News, an online distributed newsletter edited and maintained by Eric Hsiao from 1988 to 1993. For example, it is worth noting that this is the full resolution of the earlier issues, 320 by 200 pixels. […]
CD.TEXTFILES.COM has been up and down for the last few weeks while I’ve been moving it to a new server. The old server that textfiles runs on seems to crash or stop doing networking under specific heavy load (and randomly, too), so a new server is being populated. Every other textfiles.com site is already active […]
I got a nice letter from someone discussing how the BBS Documentary missed a subject. For the record, it missed it because I didn’t cover contemporary BBS issues, and the shooting for the film was done in 2004, so even if it had done contemporary issues, they would be contemporary issues from a half-decade ago. […]
One piece of trivia did come up during Comic-Con I should probably hasten to mention, as it clarifies a theory/rumor I gave to a lot of other people about 10 years ago. There was a game released for the Apple II and many other platforms in the early 1980s called Karateka. It was written by […]