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May you be touched by his noodly appendage. Hint: use the shadow to determine if you are over your converts.

My best was 681 930 982 feet. Does playing this make me a bad person?

I was in Fry’s last weekend, and was just browsing the cheap video game aisle’s with my wife, when I noticed that the quirky Japanese title Katamari Damacy was only $19.99. I think it was Tom who first told me about this rather odd little game, and when I explained what it was to my […]

Half shadow puppet theater, half first person shooter: Deanimator. Link courtesy of Dan.

Where your host expounds about his largely academic interest in games of chance. Links: ::amazon(“0394703103”, “Beat the Dealer, by Ed Thorp”):: The classic, pick up a copy and read on the flight to Vegas. You can and should read his Mathematics of Gambling as well, especially since it’s available online for free. ::amazon(“0929712137”, “The Theory […]

While watching the World Poker Tour today, I saw Mike Madusow survive going all in against a pair of aces, and surviving by hitting three kings on the river. During the break, they had this question as a quiz: Which hand has the best odds going up against A♦ A♣ in the hole? K♦ K♠ […]

Gamespy talks about Will Wright’s newest game Spore. It sounds fascinating on many levels.

According to Engadget, the rumor mill has ground out the name Xbox 360 for the successor to Microsoft’s Xbox. To give you a head start on all the fun, perhaps you’d like to install emulator for OS360…

I’m as obsessive compulsive as the next guy (actually, I’m twice as obsessive), but even I am amazed at the dedication that resulted in this site full of Gingerbread House Patterns. Cool tips for a neat holiday craft!

The BBC has the 1984 Infocom adventure based upon Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy running as a Flash applet. Cool stuff. Don’t forget your towel!

Enjoy carving those large wintertime vegetables!

Materials licensed under Creative Commons licenses are becoming more and more popular, and more and more mainstream. As reported on BoingBoing, Knitty is a web-published knitting magazine, and for a special breast-cancer awareness issue, they decided to publish their patterns under a Creative Commons license, specifically the Attribution-NoCommercial-NoDerivs license. Check out the patterns: I’m more […]

While watching the amateur video program The Packet Sniffers, I was introduced to Stair Dismount. It is a wacky little “game”, where you basically aim a force at particular portions of a stick figures anatomy to push him down a long flight of stairs, and then get points depending on how hard the various bits […]

Your beloved editor (that’s me, in case you didn’t realize) was apparently taken in by an Internet hoax. The image of the “computer of the future” envisioned by Rand scientists in 1954 is in fact a cleverly edited photograph from a Navy website which shoes a full scale mockup of a nuclear submarine’s maneuvering room. […]

Thorp’s book, The Mathematics of Gambling, is apparently available online with permission of the author. Thorp is of course the author of the classic book Beat the Dealer, to which an entire generation of card counters owe their heritage.