Things seem to be a bit strange today. As the Blog Wyrm staff got together this evening there seemed to be a general consensus that the world was slight off balance. All of us saw strange driving incidents – cars come at us on the wrong side of the yellow line, people trying to passing where no lane existed, trucks tearing mirrors off cars, and so on. Then there is the general weirdness in the news – killers on the loose in New York and running parts of what once were coherent nations in the Middle East. Being a Friday, our immediate knee-jerk reaction centered around Friday the Thirteenth but of course the date is wrong. That is until someone pointed out that the 26th is the 13th times two. So maybe we are seeing a double-strength case of that ‘bad-luck day’.
Well there may be bad luck in the air but there is good luck what we have to offer today.
Censorship and free speech are once again the subject of About Comics. Central to any discussion of these topics must be a commitment to the truth, which the CBLDF seems to be making take a back seat to sensationalism these days.
What do Christmas lights, Occam’s razor, some basic computations, and an Episcopalian minster all have in common? Bayes theorem, that’s what. Read all about it in this week’s Aristotle to Digital.
Are you passionate about a sport? Passionate enough to step out of the limelight and take a swing at coaching? Ballgame shows just how rewarding that experience can be.
What to stimulate the economy then how the wholesale destruction of an US city. Sounds crazy doesn’t it? But it only differs in size not in principle from what a lot of people have suggested. Don’t think it could be true? Try seeing for yourself in Common Cents .
Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan are all monsters of epic size who have found fame (and fortune?) on the big screen. But it took a more modern movie to introduce the Japanese name for these creatures – Kaiju – to the US public. Come join Green Screen as it examines just what makes Pacific Rim such a cool movie.
Round 1, Fight! The match begins. Your hands are trembling as your arcade stick sits on your lap. You think to yourself, “How on God’s green earth am I supposed to beat this guy? He’s been wailing on me for the past 20 games or so, and I have no clue how to find an opening in him!” You’re not alone in this struggle. Most people who play fighting games arrive at this stage and quit out of frustration. Pretzel Motion can’t guarantee that you’ll get good at fighting games anytime soon, but it hopes that this week’s article, which discusses how to put your foes at a disadvantage in a match, can point you in the right direction in terms of how you think about the structure of all fighting games.
The Kepler problem – one of the most famous, important, and thornier of the class of problems with exact solutions. Its nonlinearity makes it much more difficult to solve than textbook linear problems like the harmonic oscillator. This week’s Under the Hood continues its in depth look Lie series by seeing how the great Norwegian’s method fairs against Johannes’s problem.
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