We’ve been using jive software’s Jive Messenger server (now called “Wildfire”) for around a year with zero problems.
They’ve a short article up about the optimisation they did on v2.4.0: Wildfire Optimization.
Here’s detail on the name change to “Wildfire”. It’s true, “messenger” wasn’t a good name for an IM server.
gravestmor ยป Notes on the Denial of Perspective 02 - Felice Varini. Fascinating perspective-manipulation art installations. via Longboard
The city is dying, and the urban dead are filling its streets. Urban Dead - A Free Massively Multi-Player Web-Based Zombie Apocalypse.
It only lets you play a very small amount each day (per character), which is a great leveller and stops you spending all your copious free time on the game.
Play guides from the excellent wiki.
This is by the guy who did the brilliant Prior Art-O-Matic (a cardboard box that scares dogs and provides an RSS feed).
Wikipedia entry on the Pioneer plaque, the pictorial message by Carl Sagan sent into space on the spacecraft Pioneer 10, 11.
History, Symbology (what all the stuff means), and Criticism.
“almost none of the human scientists that were shown the message were able to decode all of it.”