http://mordred.niama.net/blog Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:08:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I entered the JayIsGames.com competition for an interactive fiction game following the theme-word "Escape". I chose to do a semi-parody of the "escape-the-room" genre, but with more characterization and story than usual. You play a miserable intern stuck in the office with half an hour remaining to the end of ... http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=139 I will miss you. The world will miss you. What you started will be continued, like a snowball on a hill. May our children find a better world because of what we do. http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=138 Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices. -- Granny Aching, "The Wee Free Men" The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society does. Read it up, the guys fucking sank ten whaling ships. They also currently battle Japanese whaling operations ... http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=137 (This post collects a couple of translations of lyrics of Amorphis I made (while facing certain deadlines, excuse the pun) at hazel's blog. Don't miss her translations as well!) Няма да пускам английския текст, да не се вижда как се разминава превода, но почти навсякъде сричките се напасват (само един Изгрев ... http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=136 Artificial molecule evolves in the lab It's happened before in silicone: "popular" article, the original research paper. In short, Adrian Thompson wanted to "evolve" a circuit (using reprogrammable hardware) that distinguishes between two "tones". He set an "impossible" for human designers limit: use only 100 logical gates (supposedly "traditional" human methods on ... http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=135 “It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak." Dream, in Sandman #19 by Neil Gaiman A great Fool died on 22th. Let's all mutter a silent "Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, Tits" for his soul, wherever it is, and whoever's mind it fucks with. Education Abortion Religion Euphemisms Death Voting Bullshit and ... http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=134 Electronic voting banned in the Netherlands! Democracy wins. The internals of a poker bot explained. It, apparently, also wins. http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=133 "A person who does not read good books has no advantage over the person who can't read them." -- Mark Twain There's this meme going around the "nearby" blogs - you write about something, usually answering a set of questions, and then you "pass along the challenge" to N bloggers around ... http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=126 I have started another blog, Codex Securitatis in which to write about security and Latin. Because I mostly suck at Latin, so I'll stick to the security part. Please update your links/bookmarks if you're interested in the security content, or sigh in relief if you aren't. (In case you wonder, "incipitur" ... http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=125 "... Swift Death, I did but jest" ... and there are little more suited demonstrations than this account of a 1708 hoax (that's way before the Internet, mind you), carried by (spoiler alert) Johnatan Swift (too late, you read it!). Finally, [ John Partridge ] had succumbed to his fever at 7:05 ... http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=123