I was standing in the drizzle on Brighton beach, this afternoon, staring
at the sloping wreckage of the West Pier; pigeons and seagulls lined
along the contours of the tilting ballroom roof, and a floorless,
smashed-open ticket booth hanging emptily above the breaking waves.
Inspiring, hermetic stuff. I took an armful of poor-quality digital
photos of it, as well as a few of the Palace Pier's ghost train wreckage;
camera held high above sheet-covered wire fencing, a scorched helter-skelter
standing guard.
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Less contained pier fires, from America in the last
century; "Firemen used dynamite in a futile attempt to stop the fire at the pier's outer boundary."
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The second 24 Hours of
Inform are over, with three contestants managing to write a
text adventure that met various pre-specified criteria (must be set on a
cruise ship; must involve Jesus, a cat, a mini-skirt and weather balloon).
You can play and contrast the games via a Java z5
interpreter: Ghost Ship,
Aesthetic Deletions and
Escape from the SS Borgarís.
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"Players shall receive one point for every comment posted to their most recent blog entry by non-anonymous individuals, excluding themselves."
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Logi-Sticks -
a nice logic-circuit chessboard game from Raven's convergently
evolving brain, involving either Icehouse
pieces or appropriate tokens of your own invention.
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