Category Archives: Fun

“Beauty walks a razor’s edge; someday I’ll make it mine.”

Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2011 by Jon

Dusting off the old blog? Not really, but I figured it was time for a post, even a minimal one.

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Oh look, I can blog in LaTeX now

Posted on Monday, April 18, 2011 by Jon

Oh hai, I can has LaTeX?

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“I’ve got pi here, and I’ve got pi there; I’m pi-winning!”

Posted on Friday, March 18, 2011 by Jon

Why pi is wrong, and why we should all be using a new constant—tau, equal to two pi—instead

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Thus ends Introduction to New Media.

Posted on Friday, March 11, 2011 by Jon

All good things must come to an end, and this end should always involve a Johnny Cash song.

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“If you should feel me move toward the light / you’ll shoot me down like a dead satellite.”

Posted on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 by Jon

Here’s some music from the late Mark Heard, an amazing (and criminally obscure) singer-songwriter.

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Snow day!

Posted on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 by Jon

Some of us have been secretly (or not so secretly) hoping for a snow day. Well, we got one!

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Chinese newscasters must really like Top Gun.

Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 by Jon

It appears that China’s state run television network tried to pass a clip from Top Gun off as authentic military footage.

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It lets you shoot stuff. And it helps you type faster.

Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2011 by Jon

Type words. Shoot aliens. That’s the premise of Z-Type, an awesome little HTML5 shmup game I found out about yesterday.

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