Fear of decisions : Rubik’s cubes on trees?

I’ve just watched an interesting amalgam of conspiracy theories, in the form of the pseudo-documentary “Zeitgeist: The Movie” (Not to be confused with American Zeitgeist).
I’m not going to go into length about the movie now, I’m sure I’ll have something to say about it in the future. But it did get me to thinking […]

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Viscosity

Something awesome to take a look at is a webtoy called Viscosity:

http://windowseat.ca/viscosity
Proof that some exciting stuff is coming out of the guys at Microsoft’s Live Labs
It was developed by Jeff Weir of Live Labs. It’s in PHP and Flash. So much for Microsofties being closed off to outside tech.
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Maths love and not ashamed of it

Tonight, I sat down with an old foe. My final engineering maths text book, a book covering a smattering of typical second year maths, namely ODE (ordinary differential equations), vector calculus, and some stuff on Fourier transforms. Some light Thursday night reading.
This was the text book for subject which I got a predicate of […]

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Alcohol + Lent = Free Booze

I’m a Catholic, and for a myriad of reasons Catholics give up ’something for lent’. Why we do this delves into Jesus, his 40 days before he began his ministry and a whole lot of other dogmatic and traditional aspects of my life which aren’t really part of this blog, and aren’t really interesting unless […]

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Randomness, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

Random occurrences are essential for diversity and change in our world. But often misunderstood behavior is mislabeled random behavior. Is something truly random if there is some underlying cause which we either don’t know through ignorance, or through general lack of understanding as a culture?
The study of weather through all time has often seemed an […]

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