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Month: April, 2008

Riddler

Image via Wikipedia After receiving a few responses to the previous question, I decided to continue the trend of riddles. Some of these will be physics or computer science related. Others might be more general. I enjoy them as they’re excellent mental exercises. I recently discovered this question in one of my old calculus texts. [...]

Luigi, jealous of JavaScript

This is incredible, a basic Mario Brothers clone written entirely in Javascript. The entire application is compressed into 14kb. Simply amazing! Check it out!

Snail's Pace

I’ll be back.. I mean I am back. Greece was great. Check out the Flickr stream for shots of Mykonos, Delos, Athens, and Edinburgh. I just uploaded all of the raw shots, so there are some repeats and blurry photos. Hope to get those cleaned out. Great experience! The answer to the burning question Does [...]

Snails and Horses

This week I’ll be traveling to Greece and staying in the islands of the Mediterranean. Should be a wonderful time and I’ll return with lots of great photos. Anyway, before I go I leave you with a question from Christoph Schiller’s excellent work. Some of you that know me may have already heard this one [...]