Month: March 2013
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Review of Dear Esther
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Dear Esther Rating: 👍 Not so much a game as a semi-interactive ghost story in a beautiful, Source-powered landscape, Dear Esther is worth playing... so long as it's on sale. The gameplay's not long enough to justify a £6.99 price tag, and there's almost …
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Non-transitive Games
Dan learns about non-transitive games, writes a program to calculate the probabilities of winning a non-transitive dice game, and gives you a non-transitive coin game to play for yourself!
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Hello 2013: Les Gets
Continuing his series of "catch up about the beginning of the year" blog posts, Dan talks about his trip to the French Alps by train, and the skiing he did when he got there.
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Alternatives to Google Reader
Google Reader is slated to be shut down on 1st July. Many of Dan's friends still use Google Reader as their primary RSS reader, so he's put together a quick guide to evacuating to pastures greener.
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Hello 2013: My Birthday
Dan managed to spend the afternoon of his birthday away from his computer and in the pub... but only because his office caught fire! This, and more from Dan's early-January trip to London.
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TIL that more than 1 in every 365 people die on their birthday, and nobody's sure why
A study by Swiss researchers has generated a startling statistic - you are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than on any other day of the year. But why should that be?
As the researchers put it, "birthdays… appear to end up in a lethal way more frequently than expected ."
This is …