So I spent a little bit tossing dice pool data into a spreadsheet (available in Openoffice.org ODT and Excel XLS formats). ( Read more... )

After realising that it was a relatively simple tweak, I added a second page to the calculator: contested rolls. So let's look at a few scenarios:

(NB: I may have the systems wrong for our game. eyebeams, please tell me if I do, and I'll re-calculate ( Read more... )

Mostly for eyebeams' and magicbox' perusal, I've set up a re-creation of my white wolf dice pool calculator. It rolls a given pool 20 000 times and displays the results (margin of error approximately 0.5%). It supports various rules tweaks, but the defaults are what we're using for Adventure ( Read more... )

Last week, laurhead and I were joking about how Godspeed you! Black emperor's lengthy post-rock songs might just be able to be sped up by 3-4 times and turned into pop or dance.  It turns out that that's actually the case.

So, here's five tracks:
TitleOriginalExplanation1IntroThe Dead Flag BluesI ended up putting this one first because it does work as ( Read more... )

After a little bit more poking, I have a script to cull Twitter comments from some journals. That is to say, that I tested it on about a dozen layouts and it works for those. That said, it relies heavily on scraping the page, so doesn't necessarily work on all layouts.

It requires GreaseMonkey or for Opera's User Javascript to be turned on ( ( Read more... )

In a fit of pique a few months ago, I wrote a lirttle script to remove Youtube comments. It works in Opera and Firefox.
Firefox

• Edit: Download and install the Firefox extension.

Opera

• Go to Tools / Options / Content, then Javascript Options.
• If something is specified for User Javascript Files, note that directory. Otherwise, choose a ( Read more... )

Radiation does not glow. Uranium does not glow. Zinc Sulfide, with a copper activator, glows radioactive green.Yay science ( Read more... )

So, there are trailers out for Snakes on a Plane.

SLJ: Enough is enough. *gun slide clicks* I've had it with these damned snakes.

August 18. Either the best or worst day of the year.

Because I'm a git, I went back and changed the tags on any and all entries that I have ever tagged. I'm fortunately unlikely to be bored enough to go back and tag 5 years worth of posts with hagiographical references ( Read more... )

where ( king = Dick Pound ) and ( you = Ice Dance )
So, a classic winter olympics tradition: realising that most of the sports are direct and minor variations of each other and that short track speedskating is the sole watchable winter sport that I only see during the olympics ( Read more... )