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An aged map.
This ancient scroll is yellowed, its frayed corners crumble into dust
at your touch. A strange device illuminates its head, a gateway to the
endless voluminous shelves of Alexandria:



Google | Reader | Maps

Below this arcane notation spreads a vibrant map of a myriad continents,
hidden realms and extraordinary places, each one marked with a line of
silver text written in a flowing hand.

    Ye Towne Squares and Merchants
        
    My Yahoo, maybe your Yahoo, too | Movies | Samskivert movies
    Slashdot for geek gossip | Kuro5hin | Techdirt which is a bit neater
    BBC News is very good The Economist splendid, splendid 
    Amazon and my wishlist
    Craigslist bay area 'stuff' | SF Station baytainment | Earthquakes | Citysearch

    Ye Alternative Towne Criers

    Alternet with some back-atcha | Common  Dreams | Znet
    Nanodot is scary
        	  
    Ye Taverns oft Visited
    Cockeyed.com the sixth-best website in the whole world.
    NTK which is splendid & jolly good, old bean
    The Onion is funny
    gagpipe.com aggregates satire from around the whirled.

    Gaming Rooms

    Grand Text Auto | Many to Many | Zang.org | Ludology.org
    Got Game? The Future of Play | Game Girl Advance | Game Research | Waterthread
    thecan.org nascent cemetary for dead games
    Gamasutra a decent games developers site | Game Developers Conference | thedc
    Slasharama: Joystick101.org | Plastic Games | LostUniverse
    IGDA developers assocation, Online Games SIG
    Fatbabies an indecent game gossip site | Mushroom | Old Man Murray
    Vault Network | Stratics | Blues News
    Kanga.nu home of the excellent mud-dev list | Raph
    Skotos the geocities of MUDs (with a business model)
    Playsite classic games | EA.com | Zone | Yahoo! Games
    Mud Connector a thousand MU*'s to wander & wonder

    Illuminated Manuscripts
    Scott McCloud of Understanding Comics
    Salon for the comics esp. WayLay | Electric Sheep

    Houses of Good and Ill Repute
    Rent-a-Geek my father's modest personal site
    Paul | Karen, Jeremiah, Par | mdb | Ray | Ryan | Justin
    Sense Internet sites: Rizla | BA Press | HH Workwear
    Avalon wish they'd change this web site

    Ye Olde Dusty Historic Vaults of the Future
    The Cathedral and the Bazaar seminal open-source advocacy
    Crypto-Anarchy, untax, seeya government, ++good | see also Electric Communities
    The Singularity as coined by Venor Vinge on Extropy because we can all live forever, um yeah
    Foresight Institute ... and here's why

The more you study it, each location and feature of the map's landscape
unfurls to reveal hidden details, unknown vistas.

You feel entranced, willing to study the map forever, growing steadily
weaker until becoming a shade, slipping away into to myth.

- exits

You shake your gaze away, blinking in the sun. You can return to the
dusty old main street or turn the map over.