Once upon a time, there was one place on the web where you'd go for nearly everything PTerry-related: Lspace.
Not particularly innovative technically, rather old-fashioned programming, it still was the source to find out what that extremely obscure reference to three-string instruments in "Soul Music" was all about.
That site was and still is at:
http://www.lspace.org/
But in recent years the site seems to be abandoned. Annotions stopped with "A Hatful of Sky" and the annotation pages for subsequent books are empty.
But now there's a site also calling itself L-space at:
http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Main_Page
Which has a totally different look and feel, more updated content, and the annotations seem to be reader-generated, rather than collected and edited and cover many but not all of the books.
And, of course, there's also
http://www.lspace.com/
which is the first thing that shows up in a search for "Lspace" and is a site showing women wearing very skimpy bikinis. It certainly has a far greater visual appeal than the other two, and could serve as an annotation for what Tawnee might started off wearing whilst on stage at the Pink Pussycat club, but it very little to do with Discworld.
So, the question is, which is the real Lspace? Has the wiki replaced the ghost town that is the original .org version? Did the editor of .org give up and transfer the name and identity to the wiki? If you're male and, when searching for Lspace, you bypass the site with the half-naked women and go on to the pages full of obscure references to dwarfs, trolls and Rincewind is there something seriously wrong with you?
Which is the real Lspace?
J-I-B
Not particularly innovative technically, rather old-fashioned programming, it still was the source to find out what that extremely obscure reference to three-string instruments in "Soul Music" was all about.
That site was and still is at:
http://www.lspace.org/
But in recent years the site seems to be abandoned. Annotions stopped with "A Hatful of Sky" and the annotation pages for subsequent books are empty.
But now there's a site also calling itself L-space at:
http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Main_Page
Which has a totally different look and feel, more updated content, and the annotations seem to be reader-generated, rather than collected and edited and cover many but not all of the books.
And, of course, there's also
http://www.lspace.com/
which is the first thing that shows up in a search for "Lspace" and is a site showing women wearing very skimpy bikinis. It certainly has a far greater visual appeal than the other two, and could serve as an annotation for what Tawnee might started off wearing whilst on stage at the Pink Pussycat club, but it very little to do with Discworld.
So, the question is, which is the real Lspace? Has the wiki replaced the ghost town that is the original .org version? Did the editor of .org give up and transfer the name and identity to the wiki? If you're male and, when searching for Lspace, you bypass the site with the half-naked women and go on to the pages full of obscure references to dwarfs, trolls and Rincewind is there something seriously wrong with you?
Which is the real Lspace?
J-I-B
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