• The dev tools are nice, once you work out what everything's called - the debugger's called the "walker", for instance. I particularly like the way that the listener pops up a stack effect declaration in a minibuffer when you type in a word's name - since the conventions are strictly followed, this is often all the documentation you need. When you need more, it's easy to get help and see source code using the help and see words, or using the browser (Alt+B). I haven't yet worked out how to take best advantage of the editor integration, but I'm sure that will come.
• For getting started, I found the Factor cookbook invaluable.
• #concatenative is one of the friendliest tech forums I've encountered, and hands down the most helpful. In every case my (admittedly n00bish) questions were answered before I'd finished posing them.
• I'm finding programming without variables to be really hard. Factor does have facilities for both lexically- and dynamically-scoped variables, but I've been mostly avoiding their use, on the grounds that I'll have to learn how to use the stack some time and I might as well do so now.

1. That runaway anthropogenic climate change, while unlikely to cause Humanity's extinction, was very likely (with a probability of the order of 70%) to cause tens of millions of deaths through war, famine, pestilence, etc. in my expected lifetime (so before about 2060).
2. That with a lower but still worryingly high probability (of the order of 10%) ACC could bring about the end of our current civilisation in the same time frame.
3. That should our current civilisation end, it would be hard-to-impossible to bootstrap a new one from its ashes.
4. That unFriendly AI, by contrast, has a much lower (<1%) chance of occurring before 2060, but that its consequences include Humanity's total extinction.

• Illegally detain ("kettle") thousands of peaceful protestors for hours without food, water or toilet facilities.
• Prevent journalists from taking photographs inside the kettle.
• Carefully allow a few windows to be smashed. Ensure that this is filmed, so the news reports are full of footage of "violent anarchists smashing stuff".
• Send agents provocateurs into the kettle, to encourage the protestors to turn violent.
• When the protestors finally get sick of the heat, confinement, stink of urine, etc, and start listening to the agents provocateurs, go in heavy with the plastic bullets and baton charges.
• Brief the press about how you were only responding to violence from the protestors, carefully omitting to mention how you orchestrated same in the first place.
• If you happen to kill any innocent bystanders, lie about it for as long as possible.

• Before the protest, buy two or three 2L bottles of ultra-cheap fizzy drinks, for about 20p each.
• Drain away (or, if you prefer, drink) the contents.
• Expel all the air, screw the tops back on, and stuff in your rucksack.
• When you get kettled, you'll be able to provide somewhere convenient to urinate for approximately four people per bottle.

Project Twutenberg aims to make literature accessible. We take classics of world literature and translate them to "twiterature" - from stodgy, unappetising tomes into easily digested tweets.

Everyone is welcome to contribute to Project Twutenberg. To participate simply digest a well-known book into a tweet and add #twbg to the end, like the glacé cherry on a word bun.

1. Download the file nitfol-0.5_linux.tgz from here.
2. Unpack it, either from a graphical file-manager or by typing tar xvzf nitfol-0.5_linux.tgz at a command prompt (having first cd'd to wherever you saved the file).
3. Put the contents of the zipfile somewhere useful.

   sudo mv *nitfol /usr/local/bin
   sudo mv nitfol-0.5.so /usr/lib

4. Try to run Nitfol now and it will complain that it can't find libpng.so.2. This is a shared library file that contains code for reading and writing PNG image files. Look in your shared libraries directory to see if there's anything promising.

   cd /usr/lib
   ls *png*

5. In my case, that came up with libpng12.so.0 and libpng12.so.0.27.0, the one being a symbolic link to the other. Let's cross our fingers, make libpng.so.2 a symlink to libpng12.so.0.27.0, and see what happens.

   sudo ln -s libpng12.so.0.27.0 libpng.so.2

   By the way: ever have trouble remembering the order of arguments to ln? It's the same as cp and mv: "from" then "to".
6. Change directory to wherever you installed Violet, and invoke Nitfol on the file violet.zblorb.

   cd ~/if/Comp08/zcode/violet
   nitfol violet.zblorb

7. All being well, you should now be looking at the start of the game. Happy adventuring!

mrkgnao

Dear Fred Foobar MP,

I am writing to ask you to please vote against the following bills tomorrow:

* The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Fees) Regulations 2009
* The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Information and Code of Practice on Penalties) Order 2009
* The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Provision of Information without Consent) Regulations 2009

but in particular the third one, which will allow the sharing of information on the National Identity Register with a huge variety of bodies (see paragraphs 2 and 3), without the consent of the person concerned. In particular, it will allow access to the records of when the card was checked: if the scheme becomes widely used, this data will allow detailed pictures of our lives to be built up.

I know that you voted for the introduction of the scheme: but if you've since changed your mind, and wish to stop this deeply and increasingly unpopular scheme, then voting against these Orders would be an excellent way to do it. But in any case, the "Provision of Information without Consent" order is (despite the no-doubt good intentions of its framers) clearly open to wide abuse, and an excellent example of the "mission creep" predicted by the ID scheme's opponents since the beginning.

Yours sincerely,

pozorvlak