Most of my friends know that I really like the roguelike game Linley's Dungeon Crawl and play it often (it's similar to NetHack and Angband, if you're familiar with those). In it, you wander around an (ASCII art) dungeon fighting monsters and getting equipment and treasures. The object of the game is to get the fabled Orb of Zot, which is in the ( Read more... )

Take a classic game that makes heavy use of a simple physics engine (such as Asteroids), and add in general relativity to the physics engine (and set the speed of light so that the game has very noticeable relativistic effects). For the Asteroids example, asteroids traveling at high speeds relative to you would exhibit Lorenz contraction, asteroids ( Read more... )

I realize it's old news at this point, but President Bush is still out of touch with the world ( Read more... )