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Archive for April, 2005

Debugging Langton’s Ant (way too long)


April 12th, 2005
So yesterday I mentioned that A. K. Dewdney was a contributing author of many Computer Recreations articles appearing in Scientific American magazine. While in collage I used to rife through back issues of Scientific American magazines to read every Computer Recreations and Mathematical Recreations I could find. One of the most memorable articles was The [...]

A. K. Dewdney


April 11th, 2005
 Continuing my theme of slightly interrelated random stuff or as ninad commented “completely interesting but completely pointless stuff” I’d like to talk more about A. K. Dewdney. I mentioned A. K. Dewdney Earlier as the author of The Planiverse . In addition to The Planiverse Dewdney has written another of my favorite books The New [...]

Boing Boing: Nasa’s robotic head plumbs the nadir of the uncanny valley


April 9th, 2005
This is so creepy I thought it must be a prank but the file is hosted on a NASA/JPL server so it must be real… right?

morons.org – Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills at Best Buy


April 8th, 2005
We have all had our bad experiences with Best Buy but this poor guy was arrested for using $114 in $2 bills. OK, so he was probably being an ass because the Best Buy employee “misstated” that installation was free but he didn’t deserve to be arrested. Next time he should remember Bets Buys policy [...]

Kitten Cannon – Presented by Flash Player


April 6th, 2005
Every first year physics student knows that the maximum range of a projectile is achieved at 45 degrees. That is unless your shooting a kitten into a field filled with bombs, trampolines, and Venus fly-traps.My top score: 1516