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I drew these things about 10 years ago, and forgot all about them until today. So this evening I've dug them out and I thought I'd upload them. They're pixel drawings of trek characters. I know it's not much, but if I didn't post them here they'd never being seen again.:p Feel free to edit...

I'm sure readers know what I mean here: Constitution, et al. I was mulling over this earlier for an idea I had. And to help me develop that idea further, I'd like to hear what your favourite stats systems are, and ask why you like them. Do you feel that the design of a game's stats system is...

I don't know if anyone else is getting this, but since the weekend I've been redirected to this thing about 20-30 times. When I click on something in google image search, I'm often getting redirected to a webpage as shown in the image below. The url is not always the same, but the page always...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13201254 It's interesting how the 8-bit era is becoming increasingly popular. News stories like this seem to be popping up more and more frequently. Whether it's the 80's style enclosures for new Intel Atom based PCs, or electronic synthesizers made out...

I've been thinking quite a bit about operating systems this past week, and how one might go about creating one. Not that I'm likely to attempt this, but I would like a better understanding of how it can be done. I began thinking about filesystems, designing my own, then reading in more detail...

For those who didn't hear about this, the people at Facebook launched a competition to solve some mathematical problems with algorithms. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/12/facebook_hacker_cup_kicks_off/ Since the start of the year, the 12000 applicants have been whittled down to 25...

Help me to do this: I want to change the way my Finder windows display directories, but it doesn't seem to be remembering my settings. I want files to be displayed as a List with Small icons, to not use Relative Dates, and with columns in the order {Name|Size|Date Modified|Kind}. And I want...

Suppose you were part of a group of people who were going to climb a big tree in the middle of the woods. How do you approach the challenge? (a) I'm the sort of person who looks up, and tries to get to the top of the tree before anyone else, so am really only interested in who is in front of...

I've seen people complain about this problem before, and I've always felt much sympathy for them. Basically, the windows clipboard works normally most of the time, but if you leave things in there for longer than a minute or two, there's a reasonable chance the contents will mysteriously...

We haven't had a thread in Misc about this. So here you are, to discuss the fate of the nation. :) Tonight we've heard that Mubarak will not step down until September, and hasn't made any solid promises to his people. I've had a couple of conversations with friends over the past week about...

I thought this might be fun and interesting. :) I'll go first...

This week we have Eleven Excellent Entries! Please vote for your THREE favourites. Voting closes in four days. Aragorn: captcalhoun: Evil Twin: Jadzia: Niorah: OdoWanKenobi: Owain Taggart: Skywalker: SPCTRE: Waylander: Zion Ravescene:

I was thinking this morning about the hand gestures we use when conversing with others, and how some people have a preference for some hand gestures over others. Sometimes we can tell much about a person's personality from the hand gestures they tend to use. For example, my preferred hand...

I mentioned in another thread that I want to make a dungeon crawling game loosely inspired by the arcade game Gauntlet and some rpg games. I thought I would make this thread where I could talk about it, report on progress, and see if others want to contribute art/ideas. :) I have good...

I was thinking about a little puzzle today, considering the flow of air in a network of connected chambers. Picture. The basic idea is that the chambers are fairly big compared to the thin tubes connecting them. Imagine some random setup like this, and then drop a heater into one of the...

There were 16 excellent avatars entered for this contest. Well done to everyone who took part. Now vote for four favourites. Voting is open for 5 days. __________ Axiom: [Combination] captcalhoun: [Combination] Deranged Nasat: [Combination] Flying...

This avatar contest will deal with The Four Elements Of Earth, Air, Fire and Water, you may focus on just one element or a combination of. I want to see avatars that richly embody the essence of the element(s) you choose. Or if you like, you can come at the theme from a completely different...

I thought this was interesting when I read it this morning. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100414/full/news.2010.181.html I've often felt that randomness is a strange and subtle phenomenon, because so many things in life we say are random, when it is more correct to say they are...

In conversation with somebody this afternoon, a very simple numbers problem came up, and as the person stumbled on it, I tried to help them through it in baby steps. Only to discover that they just could not seem to get their head around it. I was honestly shocked, as this is somebody middle...

I made a little computer game last weekend, and I thought I would share it here, as freeware. :) It's a basic Pong game with a challenging but fallible AI opponent. http://www.2shared.com/file/10832520/a85712b4/Pong2010.html Windows only.