Vim Adventures . Have you always wanted to learn vim but were too intimidated by its vimness? Then give vim adventures a shot! Combining fantasy adventure with learning an archaic terminal program, this game is so nerdy you'll surely alienate friends and family. But who cares, you'll know vim!
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posted by Alex404
on May 10, 2013 -
42 comments
[Roy Chapman] Andrews is best remembered for the series of
dramatic expeditions he led to the
Gobi of Mongolia (shorter films:
1,
2) from 1922 to 1930. Andrews took a team of scientists into previously unexplored parts of the desert using some of the region’s first automobiles with extra supplies transported by camel caravan.
Andrews – for whom
adventure and narrow escapes from death were a staple of exploring – is said to have served as inspiration for the Hollywood character “
Indiana Jones.”
Andrews’s expeditions to the Gobi remain significant for, among other discoveries, their finds of the first nests of dinosaur eggs, new species of dinosaurs, and the fossils of early mammals that co-existed with dinosaurs.
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posted by ersatz
on Feb 17, 2013 -
8 comments
Today it is an economic and even geopolitical necessity for oil companies, in order to maintain pipelines and offshore rigs, to send divers routinely to depths of a thousand feet, and keep them at that level of compression for as long as a month at a time. The divers who do this work are almost entirely male, and tend to be between the ages of twenty-five and forty. Were they any younger, they would not have enough experience or seniority to perform such demanding tasks. Any older, and their bodies could not be trusted to withstand the trauma. The term for these extended-length descents is “saturation diving,” which refers to the fact that the diver’s tissues have absorbed the maximum amount of inert gas possible.
posted by jason's_planet
on Jan 19, 2013 -
19 comments
Ben Carlin was born in Western Australia in 1912. He served during World War II with the
Royal Indian Engineers, and while awaiting demobilization Carlin came across a decommissioned
Ford GPA (an amphibious Jeep). He was sure that "with a bit of titivation you could go around the world in one of these things."
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posted by obscurator
on Dec 24, 2012 -
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James William Buel was a journalist, author, and editor, who was born in 1849 in Golconda, Illinois, and died in 1920 in San Diego, California. In his life, he traveled the world, writing and illustrating adventure tales about the wilds of Africa and the American West, and other exciting parts of the world.
Many of his books are on Archive.org, ranging from
America's Wonderlands, as delineated by pen and camera and
Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities, embracing New York, Washington City, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and New Orleans; to
Russian Nihilism and Exile Life in Siberia, with over 200 splendid engravings, and
Sea and Land [microform] :
an illustrated history of the wonderful and curious things of nature existing before and since the deluge (including
a great number of creatures who apparently found joy in terrorizing and devouring people).
posted by filthy light thief
on May 3, 2012 -
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Before Joy Adamson went to Africa, before Margaret Mead sailed to Samoa, before Dian Fossey was even born, a
Kansas teenager named Osa Leighty
married Martin Johnson. Whether
dancing to jazz in Congorilla or
meeting headhunters in Borneo,
her life with Martin ultimately led to hours of
pioneering documentary footage,
books,
movies and more. Her
autobiography inspired a
Kate Spade purse, a
perfume and her marriage an
entire line of clothing while her
joie de vivre put her
on the cover of a book on
trailblazing women of history. Osa Johnson went on to become a character in
a play, in
a poem while her married life gave birth to
a museum (or two).
When Osa met Martin,
she married adventure.
posted by infini
on Apr 19, 2012 -
4 comments
True Adventures in Better Homes -
Here is a collision of two worlds: men’s adventure magazines or “sweats” meets Better Homes and Gardens. These photocollages are set against the backdrop of the McCarthy era, advertising, sexual repression, WWII and the Korean War. The cool, insular world of mid-century modern living glossed over all danger and darkness, which the heroic male fought off in every corner.
posted by Artw
on Apr 16, 2012 -
44 comments
William and Sly 2 is a gorgeous, ethereal fantasy exploration game wherein you play a nimble fox tasked with finding the scattered pages of your human friend's journal, while gathering mushrooms, finding keys to unlock mystery boxes, and freeing rune-bound spirits and pixies trapped in frost along the way.
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posted by taz
on Jan 16, 2012 -
14 comments
The London Geographical Journal, the preeminent publication in its field, observed in 1953 that “Fawcett marked the end of an age. One might almost call him the last of the individualist explorers. The day of the aeroplane, the radio, the organized and heavily financed modern expedition had not arrived. With him, it was the heroic story of a man against the forest.” Fawcett was none other than
Percival "Percy" Harrison Fawcett,
British soldier, trained as a surveyor of unknown lands, doubling as a British spy. But
his true love was exploration, and not simply to mark boundaries on a map. His final goal was the same that had been the demise of many explorers:
a mighty lost civilization in South America.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Dec 29, 2011 -
6 comments
Dead Cyborg has the heart of a text adventure within the body of a 3d engine (
youtube trailer).
Caveats: donationware - future episodes dependent on donations. burster plug-in required for browser play
posted by Sparx
on Aug 1, 2011 -
6 comments
Here Be Monsters. "Three friends, on a drunken dare, set out in a dinghy for a nearby island. But when the gas ran out and they drifted into barren waters, their biggest threat wasn't the water or the ocean—it was each other."
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posted by joannemullen
on May 10, 2011 -
49 comments
The web browser on the Kindle may not be the slickest piece of software in the world, barely sufficing for checking email and basic surfing, but there's one thing it excels at: web-based text adventures. Turn on your wireless connection, peck out
PortableQuest.com on those tiny little keys and prepare for a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. (You can play without a kindle as well.) [created by
edman, via
mefi projects]
posted by Vectorcon Systems
on Oct 6, 2010 -
13 comments
"For many riders, a
Ninja 250 is the bottom rung of a sport bike ladder, a necessary first step in pursuit of high horsepower race replicas. I can’t begin to recount the myriad times I’ve been asked about getting a bigger bike, generally with the suggestion, express or implied, that I’m ready for a 600cc super sport. With over 17,000 miles behind the bars of my mighty 250, I’ve no apprehensions about moving up." - A blog
documenting and occasionally
rhapsodizing about day to day living with a bike that is usually looked down on as a underpowered, beginner's bike.
posted by 1f2frfbf
on Jun 29, 2010 -
95 comments
Play Pen - It's a Wiki-based pixel-art user-created point-and-click freeform adventure game/story/experience. Look, just go there and
do something.
posted by Jimbob
on Apr 20, 2010 -
18 comments
Hetherdale is a full scale point and click adventure, for free. Don't forget to use the map option when it arrives in order to travel faster.
posted by Sparx
on Apr 5, 2010 -
20 comments
Bobby Model, brilliant adventure photographer,
died Wednesday, September 16, 2009, at the age of 36.
Here are some examples of his beautiful work.
posted by Matthias Rascher
on Sep 19, 2009 -
18 comments
Scarygirl. Flash platformer/adventure game with absolutely staggering production values and art. The intro sequence is awesome.
posted by juv3nal
on Apr 14, 2009 -
40 comments
Around Cape Horn - if you've ever wished for an authentic glimpse into the bygone era of the majestic age of sailing, this is it - a rare 1929 true adventure film about sailing a four-masted commercial barque around the Cape Horn during a huge gale. It was shot with a hand-cranked camera by Captain Irving Johnson who offers a spirited narration. 36 minutes, B&W
posted by madamjujujive
on Apr 11, 2009 -
29 comments
A man whose bravery and fame is matched only by his commitment to truth, the great
Baron Münchhausen has permeated all artistic mediums of any worth: books (
on-
line and
off),
films (
old and
new), cartoons (
french,
english), an
animated short film, an
online graphic novel, even a
game of
role-playing -- if you are so despicable a person as to, for no other reason than the amusement of yourself and your fellows, slander the Baron's name with lies of your own invention. Though a similarly-named
syndrome would falsely imply otherwise, he is an entirely honest man who exaggerates as little as he boasts, and as to the latter I have assurances from no less a personage than the Baron himself that his humility is without equal in the 7 earth continents, and 2 out of 3 of the moon's.
posted by TimeTravelSpeed
on Feb 27, 2009 -
22 comments
