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On Electioneering
You know what? I haven't yet heard a positive advertisement from the Liberals. Every ad, from big to small, consists of the same message: Labour are muppets and unions will eat your babies. Labour's done its fair share of negative campaigning too, which is disappointing ( Read more... ) -
Linkz
People need education. Get into these links:- The Straight Dope: Cecil Adams and his crew of truth-seekers debunk hoaxes, explain mysteries and always out-do you in tracking that last bit of information down. It's enlightening and entertaining.
- Snopes: Ever hear a story and wonder if it's just an urban legend? Or receive chain mail and want to ( Read more... )
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Game reviews done right
I have finally found the Holy Grail of gaming reviewers: an English-sounding, Australian-based game reviewer who prefers the PC over consoles, who has a sharp wit, is funny and says exactly the right things to say about a game. Sure it's intentionally negative for the most part, but at least it provides the good parts and gives good reasons for the ( Read more... ) -
All the better to see you with, my dear
I'm thinking (in my grand plan to upgrade my PC) to get a new monitor. I currently have a 17" Dell CRT, which is okay but CRT is bollocks. I'm tossing up between these two:
Samsung 225BW-BL vs AOC 416VI don't need supreme colour fidelity. I just want something that works well enough for gaming and should be close to no-hassle (I'm not keen on ( Read more... ) -
Ghost cabs? Underground cabs?
In Canberra you can order a taxi using this voice-recognition system. If you ring using a mobile phone you get the option to be sent an SMS when the taxi is close to picking you up. Here's the one I got:
Thanks for calling Canberra Cabs. Taxi TX57 is on the way and is now 0.99m away.I was a little spooked because there was no car on the street, ( Read more... ) -
Simulated Architecture #3: Building a House
To achieve my grand goal to get my computer to build me a city from scratch, it needs to be able to create buildings from scratch. There are a lot of different ideas on how to do this, and I'll give a couple in ( this installment. ) -
Simulated Architecture #2: The Concept of Distance
A core concept to architecture, town planning and 3d graphics is that of "distance" and what I want to talk about in ( this installment. ) -
Le Sigh
Last night I heard a bang and a smash. I jumped to my window to see a stationwagon drive away from my car. Turns out they punched a hole in the front on my car with their towbar (which is higher than usual - it was like a tradie's stationwagon). Of course they didn't leave any details or even stick around because it appears their car was fine ( Read more... ) -
Simulated Architecture #1: Welcome to The City
The catalyst for this project is the question: "Can computers create art?" My gut feeling is that as impressive as computers are, they cannot create "true art", the kind of art that arrests your very thoughts. They can compute, they can infer, but they cannot make that extra leap. The driving question then is: ( How far can they go? ) -
[Breathe] One year of mentoring!
I met up with John yesterday afternoon. I didn't check the days or anything, but I'm pretty sure I've gotten one year of his mentorship. We've got the rhythm down now. I gave him a bit of Chapter 10, because I was struggling with writing Chapter 6. My writing is still a little askew: I need to use the Objective Correlative instead of sledge- ( Read more... )