m. c. de marco

Via a post in the conlangs LiveJournal community: FontStruct is a free online TrueType font-building tool. Registration is required.

I was checking for updates to WordNet, a thesaurus program that I use, when I found a similar tool on-line: Wordage. There’s no explicit information there about the dictionaries behind the Wordage interface, but I suspect WordNet was involved. Wordage looks very handy, especially compared to the current state of WordNet usability.

WordNet is now at version 3.0 and has a rudimentary web interface. Matters are not so promising if you want to download the dictionary for offline use.

It’s been a while since I blogged about Getting Things Done, but a few days ago I spotted a new kid on the productivity block (in John Gruber’s linkblog). TaskPaper, is the ultimate lightweight GTD application—so simple you could be using paper itself.

James Patrick Kelly’s September Asimov’s column was about SETI. The link to StarGen caught my eye, but I just got around to following it today.

StarGen is […] a program for creating moderately believable planetary systems around stars other than our own. The most recent version runs on Macintosh and Unix machines and produces HTML files as output.

Via Monkey Bites: Epilogue’s collection of Photoshop tutorials for fantasy illustration.

Via a mailing list: Smash your characters with an asteroid using the Earth Impact Effects Program.

Via a mailing list that thought it was a joke: the Instant Short Story Creator™ from the SmartAuthor™ suite.