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Blog, page 51

page 51 of 79

Continuing through the writing archive.

Dice · 1 min

Six-Six-Six

Rules for Six-Six-Six, a three-dice bluffing game where players announce rolls they may or may not have made.

#Ideas
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Vancouver · 3 min

Interesting Friday

Friday roundup of Vancouver events, science talks, an Arduino-Android toolkit, and other links from the week.

#Arduino#Sensor#Vancouver#Video#Journal
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Media · 1 min

Mear One Light Graffiti - Emily Wells

Frame-by-frame light graffiti video with Mear One shot at 30 seconds per image, scored by Emily Wells.

#Video#Art
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Dice · 1 min

Sixes Bet

Rules for Sixes Bet, a single-die street gambling game with fixed 1-in-6 odds no matter how often you roll.

#Ideas
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Tips · 1 min

PHP email template

A tiny PHP pattern for loading an email body from a template file and substituting variables before sending.

#PHP#Code#Tutorial
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Media · 1 min

Bill C-61 AKA Canadian DMCA - Crisis Fatigue

Bill C-61, Canada's DMCA, is back in parliament and people are tired of fighting it.

#Canada#Journal
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Dice · 1 min

Simplified Craps

Rules for Simplified Craps, a two-dice street version of craps with a 2.8% house edge.

#Ideas
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Junk · 1 min

Autonomous Quadrotor

Video of an autonomous quadrotor flying on its own.

#Video#Robots
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Tips · 1 min

What are mysql-bin.000001, mysql-bin.000002...

What the mysql-bin.000001 files in your MySQL data directory are for, and how to safely disable and delete them.

#Tutorial#Code
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Dice · 2 min

Shut the Box

Shut the Box is an old French sailor dice game where players close numbered tiles 1 through 9 using two dice.

#Paper#Ideas#Tutorial
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