Author: engel

Planet Outlaws – Buck Rogers Science Fiction 1953 Buck Rogers awakes in the year 2500 to discover an evil villian and his gang of outlaws…

The science that explains why elite military forces bounce back faster than the rest of us.

"I looked around, saw a hundred people eagerly chatting to each other, and thought, "Fuck — what am I supposed to do now?""

This ongoing series of electronic books (.PDF Files) presents complete descriptions, deckplans, statistics, and 3D renderings of a wide variety of starships, stations, and support vessels.
* Includes full color maps designed for miniatures (1 inch = 5 feet).
o Divided up into printable pages, and as poster-size images where possible.
o Printer friendly, black & white map pages are also included.
* Uses the Open Game License (OGL) and sci-fi System Reference Document (SRD) to provide familiar stats for ships and crew.

“Lux Aeternum: Expanded Setting Guide” explores the futuristic world initially presented in Green Ronin's "True20 Adventure Roleplaying" book. Lux Aeternum is a cinematic science fiction setting that strives to evoke the romanticized spirit of the 17th Century Age of Exploration – a time of sweeping changes, social upheaval, and limitless opportunity. Action, drama, and grand adventure are key elements to any grand tale to be told in this setting. The absence of faster-than-light travel limits the playing field to a handful of star systems and allows this finite area to be fleshed out with a level of detail and complexity not possible in a galaxy-spanning saga.

In 1993, Dan Linton, owner of a hugely successful BBS called Software Creations, visited Texas and made his way to id Software. This is the footage he recorded one night in November 1993.
Shown are several of id's employees at the time: Jay Wilbur, Shawn Green, John Romero, Dave Taylor, Sandy Petersen and Adrian Carmack, Bobby Prince was visiting to finish the music and create the sound effects.
This video has 21 minutes of me playing DOOM before the sound effects were put in as well as some early deathmatching with Shawn Green.

The book, Almost Perfect, was originally published by Prima Publishing in 1994. It is the story of the rise and fall of WordPerfect Corporation from my point of view. The book sold a little less than 10,000 copies and is now out of print. The copy published here is almost identical to my original manuscript and does not contain Prima's edits. In this version, I have corrected two factual errors, fixed five typos, deleted a few pages at the end, and added a final paragraph.

At Fog Creek Software, every worker at the same level is paid the same salary. And when one gets a raise, they all do

* Attention – Attract the attention of the customer
* Interest – Raise customer interest by focusing on and demonstrating advantages and benefits
* Desire – Convince customers that they want and desire the product or service and that it will satisfy their needs
* Action – Lead customers towards taking action and/or purchasing

GalleryView aims to provide jQuery users with a flexible, attractive content gallery that is both easy to implement and a snap to customize.

Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to 100%. Can good design save the newspaper? It just might.

"They actually work to keep reality from us, whether it's the truth of money in politics, the social costs of 'free trade,' growing inequality, the resegregation of our public schools, or the devastating onward march of environmental deregulation."
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"What Jefferson was applauding was the newspapers' capacity as a forum for debate (and sometimes slander), not exposé."
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"Even an excellent newspaper carries only a few articles each day that could honestly be said to nurture the democratic way."