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July 25, 2007

Interview of Persia

Gamasutra interviews Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince of Persia. The interview concentrates on the future of the franchise (movies! graphic novels!), rather than upon its more recent past (sucking ass!)

It's going to take someone with a whole lot of credibility to persuade me to invest any of my time or dollars into spin-offs from the Sands of Tim.

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July 4, 2007

November 26, 2006

Frabjous Day

Cheshire Crossing #2 is available on-line.

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April 26, 2005

How about a nice game of chess?

A full page of "games making interesting use of artificial intelligence", discovered when I followed a link to Dan O'brien's Cloak, Dagger, and DNA.

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January 7, 2005

Lego my Otto

Old news spotted at the mall today The Peril of Doc Ock. Legovision goes cinema. I hope BatGirl is getting royalties.

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December 14, 2004

Aloha

Roll your own Aloha shirt, via Dan Wallach.

Yeah yeah, it came from something he wrote 18 months ago. It's been a while since I wanted to look up something on voting machine fraud.

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Lucien's Library

From the department of the far out: the card catalog for Lucien's Library exists.

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December 5, 2004

PoP: Worrying Within

First impressions of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (PC version).

Summary: if you aren't already invested in the franchise, you can let this one go.

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July 30, 2004

Do you see what I see?

"Chew, if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes" - Batty

The World In Eyes by Nishino and Nayar; a demonstration of the information which can be obtained by capturing the reflection off of the cornea.

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April 24, 2004

Cellular Automata

Wolfram's lecture on cellular automata.

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April 12, 2004

You want the taste of dried leaves boiled in water?

Oh how totally cool: drinking tea with chopsticks. Yes, it's Fluid Mech on the space station.

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March 31, 2004

Muppets!

Courtesy of Time Life, I now have a short stack of DVD episodes of the Muppet Show. As a public service, I present the list, with links to the episode guides

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January 19, 2004

January 6, 2004

Sands of Tim III

That was... an unsatisfactory ending.

Spoilers

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January 2, 2004

Sands of Tim: II

Well, I'm about 80% of the way through Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

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December 29, 2003

Sands of Tim

It was a race - three new QED references vs. a video game. Which one arrived first in the mail?

STUDY BREAK!

PoP 4 was waiting on the doorstep.

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December 24, 2003

Predator vs Luggage

Surfed a couple sites, looking for clear depictions of the differences between crocodiles and alligators.

While tongue color comes a close second, my favorite distinguishing characteristic is the salt glands on the tongue.

Oh yeah, that's a practical way to tell them apart.

Remember, when you enter the water, you enter the food chain.

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August 15, 2003

Mirror Mirror

"Shiny Balls Mirror is a large physical object made of 900 hollow metal tubes with polished chrome balls placed in them."

Via Critical Section.

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Palantir

Ooh, shiny!

Ambiant Orb Device, used by some as a build status indicator.

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