Morning, Links
Okay, it’s not really morning anymore. But I ran across two things this morning over coffee and pancakes that intrigued me.
First, Boing Boing points to a post elsewhere about preserving the Ultima games. Finding out about Ultima Classics made me happy — I bought the boxed Ultima Collection years ago in a fit of nostalgia, but it was too much of a pain to get some of the old DOS Ultima games to run on a modern Windows machine. Ultima Classics does all the hard work and gets the emulation right, which is great. If you want it, it’s floating around on various BitTorrent sites. I kinda wish there was a smaller-download version so I didn’t have to download all the game files that exist on the Ultima Collection again, but it’s not all that bad.
Second, Salon has a good article by Dan Savage about gay marriage — how people are assuming that gay marriages should just be like traditional straight marriages even though so many straight marriages aren’t actually like the traditional image, and how more widespread acceptance of gay marriage may help us come to terms with the difference between our idealized image of marriage and the actuality. It’s always nice to see reasonable non-fiery commentary on the issue.