Metaphors

Protocons is a clean and consistent collection of icons, buttons, glyphs and other graphic elements for building Drupal user interfaces.This is not an actual module (yet?). It's a library of icons in 16, 24, 32 and 48px sizes.Aim is to define the standard visual metaphors for Drupal concepts and... Platforms: PHP

a program which enables you to create impressive simulations of complex systems in an easy way. Complex systems appear throughout all parts of our life. You can see them in form of living organisms, social groups, companies, physical processes or chemical structures. Cafun assists students and... Platforms: Mac

While everyone is playing fancy CPU burning games, some people in this world continue to worship the art of interactive fiction, AKA text-adventures. A forgotten genre in gaming, a micro universe that hides some of the world's most beautifully crafted phrases and stories. MechaniQue is an... Platforms: JVM

AjaxChat is a simple, fast, and customizable chat server that uses Ajax to smoothly refresh and display the chat zone and the nickname zone. AjaxChat project supports customized CSS stylesheets and plugins. Online chat is a generic term for what are now mostly known as instant messaging... Platforms: *nix

Kamaelia is a toy box, a toolkit, a library of components you can take and bolt together, customise and create your own. This includes components for TCP/multicast clients and servers, backplanes, chassis, Dirac video encoding & decoding, Vorbis decoding, pygame & Tk based user interfaces and... Platforms: *nix

You have to burn a lot of houses to become one of the world's foremost tyrants.Welcome to Simbabwe, where the property is already owned and the houses built and you compete to burn and dispossess them. Plunder farms, deny grain silos to opposition supporters, rig elections, gaol opponents and... Platforms: Mac

Let's face it: reading environmental journalism too often feels like eating your vegetables. Boiled. With no butter. But at Grist, we believe that news about green issues and sustainable living doesn't have to be predictable, demoralizing, or dull. We butter the vegetables! And add salt! And... Platforms: Mac

jMapper was specially designed as an accessible component created using the Java programming language. It was built in order to allow you to automatically detect metaphors / analogies between two domains (ontologies). Platforms: Windows

BuddySpace is an instant messenger with four novel twists: (1) it allows optional maps for geographical & office-plan visualizations in addition to standard 'buddy lists'; (2) it is built on open source Jabber, which makes it interoperable with ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and others; (3) it is implemented in... Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux