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[A collage of some of the games' covers from IF Comp 2012; the appex of my artistic ability] It's this time of the year again; the time for the interactive fiction community to formally dress up and impress everyone with the Interactive Fiction Competition...

Fall has brought a fresh harvest of interactive fiction. The annual IFComp (Interactive Fiction Competition) offers 54 games (parser-based as well as hypertext-based) for your consideration, many of them  ready to play directly in your browser. If, on...

In 1768, all it cost to change history was £200. That’s what two Scottish publishers paid William Smellie—son of a stonemason and master printer—to squeeze the sum-total of human knowledge into a single text. Smellie toiled for three years on the project...

NEW RESOURCES I spent some time a couple days ago trying to find a comprehensive list of “alt” Federal agency Twitter accounts and didn’t have any luck. I think my brain was simmering on it all day at work, because when I got home last night I tried...

I suddenly realized I hadn’t done a year-end wrap-up post here at Skeptools. I’m always talking about how skeptics need to measure what we are doing, so I should practice what I preach. So below you will find the top viewed content in my...