David: …because electronic pseudo-random numbers are insufficiently random for PBEM games
David:
"Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 25."
"they have determined that the crash occurred when the plane struck the ground"
"Homicide victims rarely talk to police"
ats:
Exactly what it says. Highly recommended.
(I saw some of his colleagues in CS presenting a system for designing your own flags at CEC last year.)
"Apart from the colours, this is a nice design, pentagram is a bit adolescent though."
"Looks nice but too obviously inferior rip-off of Canada's flag."
"Spain had a civil war over whether to keep this flag. The wrong side won."
"Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Good effort for a country whose name sounds like a 50s rock'n'roll group."
That's it, I'm going to start a band called Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
I would like to add the advice to not put the name of your favourite text editor on your flag.
ats: Oh, come on -- no "don't you think he looks tired" joke?
ats: It's coooold outside...
ats:
(Not on boardgamegeek, it appears.)
Good use of Test Card F.
Wonder if they bothered to license it?
ats:
"Gordon Brown has been named the worst-dressed man of the year by the British edition of men's magazine, GQ."
I think this is really rather unfair to Mr. Brown.
Although I was more surprised to discover that Brown, Brand, Sarkozy, Stringfellow, Johnson, Morgan and "the Match of the Day team" are all worse-dressed than me.
I suppose it's possible that I wasn't up for consideration, but I prefer to think of it as acknowledgement of my unchallenged sartorial elegance.
ats_: Read the paper.
Just in case you thought it would ever be acceptable to type a password into a machine you don't own...