Wednesday Knights Blog

Does this remind you of anyone?

I am not quite sure why, but I found this hilarious.

http://dvice.com/archives/2009/02/gaping_hole_cos.php
Gaping Hole costume, sure winner for Halloween 2009

Commentary

“Metamaterials are synthetic substances that can steer light in any way imaginable. Their most famous incarnation is in invisibility cloaks which work by steering light around a region of space making any object inside that region invisible. But invisibility is just the start. A team of physicists in Hong Kong (the same guys who recently worked out how to cloak objects at a distance) have worked out how to create a cloak that makes one object look like another. Instead of steering light to make a region of space look empty, the illusion cloak manipulates light in a way that makes a region of space look as if it contains a specific object. So any object within that region of space, a mouse say, takes on the appearance of an elephant.”

When we originally got word that the plan was to reboot the Star Trek franchise, I was worried about how this latest movie would turn out. I needn’t have wasted time worrying.

The movie rocks. I absolutely loved it (despite the fact that it had time travel in it). In fact, I liked how they did time travel in this installment for two reasons. First, a time travel occurred, but the people who traveled did not have a little gizmo that allowed them to do it at will. Second, the time travel changed the timeline. If I am going to have time travel, I will take it this way.

I will also say that I thought the film was very well cast. The new actors gave the proper homage to the original stars. However, they also brought themselves to the movie and made the characters their own.

If you haven’t seen it yet, go see it, on IMAX if you can.

German researchers have designed an underwater robot with a sense of touch thanks to micro-sensors printed directly onto the robot’s body that are about half the width of a human hair.

Because this sensors can be packed so tightly together, the robot would be better able to control itself in strong currents and delicately grip fragile objects. It may also be great at scaring away any living creatures on land or sea thanks to its menacing look. I mean is this design all about functionality or did they intentionally make it look like a nightmare creature from the sea?

Today is the first of May. Let’s celebrate with Jonathan Coulton.

First of May
If you haven’t heard this before, I recommend that you don’t play it at work or within the earshot of children. If you have heard it before, you know what you are getting into. Do what you want.

DAD’s D&D

This is a website for the purpose of historical reference. The Book set was copied from a 5th Edition set that was in excellent condition. This also includes the addition supplement and chain mail. Keep in mind that this was the ORIGINAL Book set Dungeons and Dragons.

Do you have an idea for a great dungeon level? Check out the One Page Dungeon Contest.

The idea of the contest is to ask readers to create one dungeon level in an edition-less format (ex: you can name monsters but you don’t provide stats for them) using the template and submit it for the contest. We’d judge the entries based on criteria such as ‘most evocative setting’, ‘Funniest entry’, ‘Most creative use of a Trap” and so on. Once we’ve named winners, we’ll be compiling a FREE PDF of the winners/runner-ups and releasing it to the community at large.

The contest runs from April 14 through midnight on May 14.

Go here to see all of the details.

Check out this site for GenCon Pics. I was trying to figure out why some of my pics were getting a lot of hits. This might explain it. 3 of my pics are on the first page. I did see some of Bryan’s while looking around.