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An eclectic mix of digital surfing destinations. The sites listed here are a few of the spots that Magic Lantern staff members keep visiting. It's a mixed bag of subjects that reflects the individual personalities that make up MLP.
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Special Favorites of Magic Lantern Playware
PVP Online
Player vs. Player: comic strip by Scott R. Kurtz, popular favorite with MLP staff
Magic Lanterns Online
Magic Lantern Museum: Ever wonder what a "Magic Lantern" really is?
Elizabeth Arthur
Elizabeth Arthur is a gifted writer and award winning novelist
JTrack 3D
Track hundreds of satellites in 3D in real time, courtesy of NASA!
Project Gutenberg
Making information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.
MegaPenny Project
What do a few pennies really add up to? Find out at The MegaPenny Project.
Corn Cam
Iowa Farmer Today's Corn-Cam! There's a Soybean Cam, too, but you'll have to look for it.
Sinfest
Comic by Tatsuya Ishida
Penny Arcade
Cartoon/comic strip updated every few days. Sometimes every day.
News
Robot Wisdom Weblog
Robot Wisdom: interesting reading around the web
Newshub
Headlines from the world's premiere news sources every 15 minutes.
Research Buzz
Web-based research news
The Onion
"America’s finest news source"
Game News
Gamasutra
Gamasutra: presented by CMP Media Group
Evil Avatar
News, reviews, cheats
Old Man Murray
OMM "the world's first gaming portal"
Games, Developers, Resources
Lua.org
We utilize Lua scripting in our titles--here's THE site to check out if you
want to learn about Lua and scripting.
Z-UP Productions
Z-UP Productions: a great motion capture studio located in the St. Louis area
Blizzard Entertainment
Publisher of Warcraft®, Diablo™, and StarCraft™. The site also features an online game service, Battle.net®.
www.classicgaming.com
Classic Gaming: great for emulation developers and fans of classic games
Steve Jackson Games
Hoo-yah!
The Basement
a subsection of Steve Jackson games: open a box and explore the mysteries of the basement
Chris Crawford
The Journal of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford: essays & journals (discontinued but still archived)
Cosmic Encounter Online
Being developed by the original boardgame designers at Eon Products.
3D Cafe
"The Ultimate Resource for Computer Graphic Artists"
Viewpoint Visualization
Contains a library of 3D digital content, provides custom modeling services used to create digital effects for films, TV, ads, games and Web sites.
Dadgum Games
Makers of Bumbler Bee-Luxe. The site includes a link to information about their digital book Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers.
Draac's Color Converter
Online tool to help you change your colors to RGB or HEX codes
Philosophy
www.disinfo.com
the very best of the conspiracy counter-culture
The Joseph Campbell Foundation
Excerpts from his writings, excellent mythology links
Fantasy and Science-Fiction
The New England Science Fiction Association
NESFA: Huge! If it isn’t on their list, it probably isn't worth reading.
Harlan Ellison
Ellison Webderland: The Official Harlan Ellison Homepage
Orson Scott Card
Official Web Site of Orson Scott Card
Music
The Fat Man
Total interactive sound design: the definitive name in computer game music
Programs
WordPerhect
WordPerhect: "an idiosyncratic hand drawn interface leading to a set of functioning but strangely altered tools"
Soda Constructor
"The online toy where you can build and play with things made out of masses, springs and muscles "
The Tesseract: A look into 4-dimensional space
A very cool Java application that lets you manipulate a wireframe tesseract in four dimensions. Boggle your brain!l
Special Interest
Monmouth Technology Initiative
A Rural Technology Corps program bringing training and education to Monmouth, Illinois.
Stanley Kubrick's computer and workroom
You don't get to see things like this very often--the guy that helped Kubrick set up his first computer took some pictures of Kubrick and his workroom around the time he was starting on Full Metal Jacket.
The Greeks
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization: gotta love those ancient Greeks... and this wonderful PBS Web site.
The Perseus Project
A remarkable resource for those who love classics.
Dover Books
Dallas Stars
NHL Dallas Stars--official web site of the 1999 Stanley Cup champions
NHL.COM
The National Hockey League’s official web site
www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/index.html
The Federation of American Scientists: exhaustive information about present, past and future weapons systems of most countries in the world.
Library of Congress American Memory Collection
Check out some of the on-line collections of the National Archives
Hubble Imagery
Hubble Telescope Greatest Hits: One of the best space image pages on the WWW
www.cookierecipe.com
Cookies: one of the great inventions of humankind- Here's a massive inventory of recipes.
405themovie.com
Internet film 405: The Movie
Cottage Industry Models
Cottage Industry Models of Charleston, SC produces some of the most historically accurate resin cast kits available anywhere. This one-man operation specializes in Civil War Vessels and Siege Engines used in the Charleston Area. The constructing on of these kits is a pleasurable and rewarding experience.
The Vintage Pens Website
Who needs a computer?
The New Companion
If you're looking for nothing in particular.
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