Worldmaking
Filed in Computing & The Net, Distractions 24 February 2006, 9:45A Friday distraction for you: this fellow has undertaken a project to write a video-game style terrain engine from scratch, and documented the evolution of his techniques. Start from the beginning. It’s only ten parts, and non-programmers shouldn’t worry about getting lost; it’s extremely readable. (via mefi)
Galactica Morality
Filed in Politics, Media 18 February 2006, 17:50After watching last night’s Battlestar Galactica, one of my first thoughts was to wonder what Timothy Sandefur was going to write about it. He’s done a fascinating series of posts on the show, and I knew he’d have something to say about Roslin’s decision to ban abortion in the fleet. His commentary is […]
Friday Random Ten; Curling Edition
Filed in Random 17 February 2006, 11:41Oh, Cassie. You didn’t win, but I still love you. Yes, I’m creepy Olympic stalker guy. Gillian Welch, Whiskey Girl The Magnetic Fields, Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing The Watchmen, Mad World Architecure in Helsinki, What’s in Store? The Tiger Lillies, Terrible The Coral, Dreaming of You The Weakerthans, Reconstruction Site +/-, The Queen of Detroit Ani DiFranco, Self-Evident Neutral Milk Hotel, Two Headed Boy
Would that be Venetian-style?
Filed in Random, Funny 12 February 2006, 22:47One of my favorite things in the world is bathroom graffiti. Perhaps this is indicative of some deeper truth about my psyche, but there it is. Whilst driving home from a weekend hanging out with Michael, I stopped at a particular gas station, which I remember for a nice bit of graffiti subversion: “For a […]
On the Crossing of Roads
Filed in Funny 3 February 2006, 23:27If you’re not familiar with the personalities involved in the skeptical community, mediums, intelligent design, and science bloggers, you probably won’t get a lot of this. So just trust me that it’s funny as hell. Pat Robertson I’d like to say to the good chickens by the side of the […]
Sheesh.
Surely the people on Survivor have seen the show. So why the hell would you sign up without doing some basic preparation; say, learning to make fricking fire?
And we’re back.
Filed in Media 2 February 2006, 15:14As implied previously, I’ve gone and switched back to WordPress. Typo permalinks should still work; apologies to anyone who has problems. Oh, and the process of getting the new posts in caused a couple of TrackBacks to be sent out that shouldn’t have been; I’m very sorry about that.
