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New language page: Phuthi (Síphùthì)
Phuthi is a Bantu language spoken mainly in southern Lesotho, and also in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Every Good and Perfect Gift
Deep Voyage
Trojan
ATOK 2005
Free Mac audio plug-ins from 2007
New language page: Ngwe (Ŋwɛh)
Ngwe is a Bamileke language spoken in Labialem Department in the Southwest Region of Cameroon.
Dragon Dictate 5
Overgrown Concrete Pavers
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Choshu Airfield
Choshu Airfield was a military airfield located south of the town of Choshu (now Chaozhou) in southern Taiwan. It was built in the 1930s, with only grassy strips, without paved runways. After the war, the hangars and revetments were removed, and most of the land was returned to agricultural use...
Driller
New Omniglot newscast
Hear the latest news from the world of Omniglot, and see some photos from my adventures in Zhaoqing.
New language page: Tày (Phuối Tày)
Tày is a Central Tai language spoken mainly in the Northeast Region of Vietnam, and also in northern Laos.
Closer Look: The Void of ZZT
A mid-2000s retro-Town adventure that sometimes is a little _too_ identical to Town
Masters of the Universe
By the Power of Grayskull! Just calling your indie game just Masters of the Universe, without any further distinguisher or indication what kind of game this may be, might not be the greatest idea in mankind’s history. Nevertheless, applying this theme to a typical game of the time seems appropriat
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Annual meeting and AGM 2026
This is currently just a �hold the date� message, but our 2026 annual meeting will held be in Nottingham on 2-4 June, with the formal company AGM on the morn...
Full Playthrough - Serenade
A complete, commentary free playthrough of Serenade
Full Playthrough - welcome to hell
A complete, commentary free playthrough of welcome to hell
Boulderdash PC
The Top 5 Pop Art Artworks That Made History
The movement known as Pop Art burst forth on the global art scene in the 1950s and 1960s as a reaction and challenge to traditional artistic norms. While Abstract Expressionism had filled galleries with paintings rich with emotions and abstract gestures, Pop Art looked instead at the posters coverin
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New numbers page: Jamaican (Jimiekn / Patwah)
How to count in Jamaican, aan English-based creole spoken mainly in Jamaica.
OG & ZZT - King's Quest III / King's Quest ZZT
King's Quest III, and then its ZZT fan sequel!
Granite Tile 04
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Beyond Coding
slackpack002 (slackers)
Attention Authors: updated endorsement policy for arXiv Mathematics
The arXiv Mathematics section has updated its endorsement policy. As of December 10th, 2025, the arXiv Mathematics section will no longer accept institutional email addresses (i.e., an email address associated with an academic or research institution) as the sole qualifier for an automatic endorseme
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In Praise of E. H. Shepard’s Illustrations
What makes Pooh Pooh? The answer lies not only in author A.A. Milne’s prose, but also in the quiet genius of E. H. Shepard’s original illustrations. With Shepard’s work now […]
Worn Brick Wall
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PAKU-PAC
A pacman clone for PC which works on 8088 4.77 and EGA/VGA
Cedar Bridge Sunset 2
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QBits
Race, Crime and Injustice
Masterpieces of the Male Nude Among Art History’s Most Iconic Works
The male nude has had a deeply influential effect on painting as a means through which artists expressed their concepts of anatomy, deity, identity, beauty, and psychology. As artistic trends shifted focus from idealism to experimentation, depictions of male nudes expressed diverse values and artist
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Gravel Floor 03
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OG & ZZT - Quest For Glory
Quest for Glory (VGA) and Quest for Glory (ZZT)
Tainan Airfield
Tainan Airport in southern Taiwan began operations as a civilian facility in 1937. In Oct 1941, it was converted into a military airfield as the home of the newly established Tainan Air Group of the Japanese Navy. At the onset of the Pacific War, Tainan Airfield launched 44 fighters to escort J...
Tainan Airfield
Tainan Airport in southern Taiwan began operations as a civilian facility in 1937. In Oct 1941, it was converted into a military airfield as the home of the newly established Tainan Air Group of the Japanese Navy. At the onset of the Pacific War, Tainan Airfield launched 44 fighters to escort J...
Tainan Airfield
Tainan Airport in southern Taiwan began operations as a civilian facility in 1937. In Oct 1941, it was converted into a military airfield as the home of the newly established Tainan Air Group of the Japanese Navy. At the onset of the Pacific War, Tainan Airfield launched 44 fighters to escort J...
Tainan Airfield
Tainan Airport in southern Taiwan began operations as a civilian facility in 1937. In Oct 1941, it was converted into a military airfield as the home of the newly established Tainan Air Group of the Japanese Navy. At the onset of the Pacific War, Tainan Airfield launched 44 fighters to escort J...
Indian Mission
Coktel Vision, their humble beginnings, when they were still developing their game formula. Indian Mission already exhibits many of the staples which their later, better known titles would be based on.
Alpha Mission
Westonia: Selected Works of Elizabeth Jane Weston
Elements of Airplane Performance
Human Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory Booklet
Editorial endogamy and endogeny: Challenges on the path to DOAJ
A common problem seen in DOAJ applications is endogeny, i.e., editorial board members publishing too often in their own journals. In this guest post, Maryna Nazarovets and Serhii Nazarovets discuss the related idea of editorial endogamy and how university journal publishers can uphold editorial inde
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ALA, ARL, and CARL Join the Fight to Defend Our Future Memory
Three of North America’s flagship library organizations have thrown their weight behind the movement to protect memory institutions’ digital rights. The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of Research Libraries […]
Edward Hopper and the Secrets Hidden in Silent Interiors
Edward Hopper remains one of the most mysterious painters of the 20th century, not because his paintings hide overt mysteries, but because their quiet simplicity creates a sense of mystery through absence. His interiors are sparse, quiet, almost unmoving, so that one is forced to look, forced to lis
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2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest: The Internet Archive is Looking For Creative Short Films Made
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We invite filmmakers, artists, and creatives of all skill levels and backgrounds to celebrate Public Domain Day, by creating and uploading a 2-3 minute short film to the Internet Archive. […]
A Landmark History of the AIDS Crisis Is Now Free for All To Read
In the early days of the HIV-AIDS crisis, journalist John-Manuel Andriote was struck by how the gay and lesbian community mobilized, and how many in the general public responded with […]
The King of Chicago
Old gangster movies. I feel they’ve been a bit overshadowed by later film noir, but they are really their own thing. The King of Chicago tries to distill their essence into a game.
advent25 (mistigris)
Open Access in Asia: Regional perspectives
Open Access (OA) publishing has become a feature of Asia’s scholarly landscape. The recent DOAJ Open Access in Asia webinar, organised by Senior Ambassador Vrushali Dandawate, highlighted the increase in journal applications, the rise of Diamond OA, and the vital role of community engagement across
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The Direction of TASVideos and an Apology to the TASers We Pushed Away
The Direction of TASVideos and an Apology to the TASers We Pushed Away
I wrote a post summing up the current and future direction of TASVideos and containing an apology for the TASers we pushed away in the past.
Feel free to read and respond in the thread or to staff with any concerns and question
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Piet Mondrian Before the Grid and the Story of Early Geometry
It is a cliché to describe an artist solely by listing what he is best known for doing, so let’s look instead at what preceded the strict grid and geometric abstraction in the work of the great Piet Mondrian. To regard him solely in terms of black lines on a canvas of white space and […]
The post Pi
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In this issue we have several important updates from the Geograph team:Strategic Plan & User Survey: Catch up on the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan lau...
Boston Library Consortium Joins Statement Supporting Digital Rights for Memory Institutions
The movement for Our Future Memory is getting bigger, with yet another library leader endorsing memory institutions’ digital rights. The Boston Library Consortium (BLC), comprised of twenty-six research libraries in […]
Vilhelm Hammershøi and the Art of Quiet Light
Vilhelm Hammershøi’s place in the history of European painting is that of the master of silence, atmosphere, and lighting. While many artists of his generation dealt with dramatic scenes and bold colorings in their works of art, he chose the inner world of quiet interiors and the soft northern light
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arXiv receives $7 million in gifts and grants from Schmidt Sciences and NASA
We are pleased to announce that Schmidt Sciences and NASA have generously awarded arXiv $7 million in gifts and grants, respectively, to allow arXiv to complete its technology migration project and to explore ways to improve the arXiv experience through personalized and fair discovery of new preprin
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We’re hiring! Engineering Director
Join arXiv! Want to make an impact on open science? Come help lead the team working on arxiv.org, one of the most integral websites for open scholarly communications and scientific discovery. arXiv is hiring for an Engineering Director. This newly created position will provide hands-on leadership an
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Attention Authors: Temporary changes to announcement schedule due to end-of-year holidays
Planning a submission to arXiv in the next few weeks? Make sure to check arXiv’s holiday schedule to understand upcoming changes and delays to announcements. The 2025 end-of-the-year holiday stretch will be temporarily impacting arXiv’s mailings, help desk, and announcement schedule. This temporary
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Attention authors: Upcoming policy change to non-English language paper submissions
Beginning February 1, 2026, arXiv will require that all submissions have a full English-language version, either as the original language or as an included translation. Currently, arXiv accepts non-English paper submissions, as long as they include an abstract in English. arXiv is a global community
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Blastar
Blastar, it always makes me think of Blastaar . Though what’s behind is actually Core Design’s attempt to make a “best of” space shooter, incorporating all styles of playing this genre.
Open infrastructure, open data: Our role in advancing OA research
Our community-driven data has long supported research into open access publishing trends. By providing open, downloadable historical datasets under CC BY licenses, we aim to promote transparency, good data practices, and meaningful contributions to scholarly communication. Over the years, we’ve noti
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Attack of the Empire
Welcome to Attack of the Empire, where the Death Star meets the clickity-click of the keyboard! Crafted with love, this tribute to both space operas and the golden age of PC gaming brings you all the pixelated pew-pew action your 16-color VGA monitor can handle. Classic Space Invaders gameplay with
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Skifree
Are you sick of booting into Windows 3.11 Just to play Skifree!? Well fret no more…. Introducing Skifree DOS Edition.
Madhouse
Video Poker – Jacks or Better
A recreation of the classic casino game.
fire-44 (fire)
blndr2025d (blender)
blndr2025d by The Blender
Parallel Purple Poles Part 2
Parallel Purple Poles
Paradigm
Paragon
Parallax
Midnight Rogue
Any gamebook allowing me to return to Port Blacksand, the City of Thieves, starts out with a bonus on my mind. Midnight Rogue even lets me play one of those thieves.
TRW submissions user guide
This guide will help you create submissions for the website. As of reading this paragraph, this guide is in a…
Updates to the Guide to Applying – flipped journals, AI, quality criteria, and OA exceptions
The quarterly update to the DOAJ Guide of Applying is introduced by Head of Editorial Matt Hodgkinson, clarifying the wording on flipped journals, adding best practices for AI tools, formalising our quality criteria, and allowing for some limited exceptions to OA. As we announced in July, all update
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thicktoberpack_revengeday
blndr2025d by The Blender
Replacing vintage computer case feet of any shape
If you have been messing around vintage computers long enough, you probably ended up in this situation more than once,…
It's that time of year again!
A brief reminder to all (but especially to self) to reset the clocks on your cameras. Are there any that have automatic systems to change to GMT these days?
DOAJ and the Diamond Discovery Hub: Working with the community to support open access
DOAJ is a partner in the European project CRAFT-OA, which aims to make the European Diamond Open Access landscape more resilient by centralising expertise and collaboration, and by offering greater visibility to Diamond Open Access (OA) journals through the Diamond Discovery Hub. DOAJ has been index
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“Sounds to Be Protected: 20 Years of Freesound” installation @ CCCB, Barcelona
(text adapted from the CCCB website) The collaborative digital platform Freesound, created in 2005 by the Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra University, is celebrating its 20th anniversary, having become one of the largest databases of creative-commons licensed sounds in … Continue reading →
Maintenance this Afternoon
Should mention some server upgrades are being performed this afternoon, (probably from 2pm - BST) .. in theory should be no downtime, so won't s...
Webinar - Strategic Plan 2025-2030
We have today sent invitations to all Geograph Company Members and users who have contributed images within the last 6 months inviting you to a webinar at 19...
libTAS 1.4.7 Released
libTAS 1.4.7 released!
Download link:
https://github.com/clementgallet/libTAS/releases/tag/v1.4.7
What's new:
https://clementgallet.github.io/libTAS/2025/10/06/version-147.html
https://github.com/clementgallet/libTAS/blob/v1.4.7/CHANGELOG.md
Freesound Day programme, October 28th, Barcelona and online
Hi everyone! The Freesound Day is getting closer, and we are now able to announce the programme. For those who don’t know, the Freesound Day is an event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Freesound, and which will feature both … Continue reading →
Results of the Freesound 20th Anniversary Composition Contest
Earlier this year, we launched the Freesound 20th Anniversary Composition contest to celebrate two decades of Freesound. Now, we are thrilled to announce the results! The contest invited sound artists, composers, and explorers from around the world to create works … Continue reading →
BizHawk 2.11 released!
BizHawk 2.11 has been released! Yes, it runs Doom.
BizHawk 2.11 features three new cores:
DSDA-Doom, for Doom, Heretic and Hexen
Warning: Analog Weapon Selection does not work at all! Wait for 2.11.1! DOSBox-X, for DOS
Opera, for 3DOIt also contains a huge number of fixes, improvements, and updat
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Markdown support in reviews
IFDB reviews now allow you to use Markdown. Now you can type *emphasis* and get italic text, **strong** and get bold text, use backticks ` to get monospaced code. Also numbered lists, bulleted lists, blockquotes, headings, and the whole jam. See "Review Formatting Hints" for details.
Additional det
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The Pac-Man Championship Edition Max Score Competition has begun!
The following message was written by eien86.
Do you like TASing?
Do you like Pac-Man!?
Do you like competitions!!??
Then sign up for the Pac-Man Championship Edition Max Score Competition!
You got three months to make a 5-minute Max Score TAS. You will compete with other players for the chance
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I No Longer Attend Vintage Computer Festivals. (But You Probably Should.)
I attended INIT HELLO over the past weekend, and had a very good time. Located near Baltimore and spanning 2 days, the event was an Apple II themed potluck and contained about 50 people using said machines, doing workshops and giving a smattering of presentations. I ran the streaming/recording machi
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The 1999(ish) Voodoo Rush Experience
Ooh, spinny! Now this is something you don’t really come across every day. A complete in box 3Dfx Voodoo Rush,…
Sensing the Forest: Two Ongoing Datasets from DIY Streamers at Alice Holt Forest, UK
[Guest blog post by Anna Xambó on behalf of the Sensing the Forest Team] Sensing the Forest (StF) is a project funded by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council. Our goal is to raise awareness among forest visitors, artists, … Continue reading →
July 2025 Art Challenge - Post-Apocalyptic Survival
MedicineStormStatus: Finished
OpenGameArt.org Spring Game Jam 2025 - Symbiosis
OpenGameArt.org Spring Game Jam 2025 - SymbiosisRUOKSaturday, June 7, 2025 - 13:01
Jam starts on: July 21st 2025 at 11:00 AM [GMT]
Submissions due by: August 21st 2025 at 11:00 AM [GMT]
Theme: "Symbiosis"
Visit the Official Game Jam itch page: https://itch.io/jam/opengameartorg-summer-jam-2025
Chat
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10 Years! PETSCII Covers Poster
And another poster made up with GFX from my C64 PETSCII demo "Scan And Spin" for celebrating 10 years of BigBoxCollection.com.
Grab a high-res version here
10 Years! PETSCII Poster
Took my C64 PETSCII demo "Scan And Spin" that I've made for celebrating 10 years of BigBoxCollection.com and turned it into a poster.
Grab a high-res version here
Post‑apocalyptic comics
Prior to compiling this list, I wasn’t fully aware of just how many comic books with post-apocalyptic settings are out there (and, of course, the list is far from comprehensive, covering only the 100 most frequently recommended titles). Had you asked me earlier, I would have said there are only a fe
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“BAR-CEL-ONA” by the group Ekho and “Soundsystem for Silence” by Myubio Collective, a performance an
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Dear Freesounders, As part of the 20th anniversary celebration program, there are two very exciting events that will take place next week in Barcelona, so be sure to check them out if you are around. The first event consists of … Continue reading →
Post‑apocalyptic RPGs
Post-apocalyptic fiction as a source of entertainment is a hard sell to many people: visions of collapsed societies scrambling in worlds ravaged by disasters might hit too close to home rather than offer escapist relief. This is as true today as it was during the Cold War period, when many of the ge
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