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Today's piece of mathematical trivia courtesy of Numberphile is The Trapped Knight. I like math problems that involve chess boards just so long as I don't actually have to play chess. I may have mentioned that I'm not terribly good at chess.

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A collection of the inspirational speeches of Trek.



Q: Jean-Luc, sometimes I think the only reason I come here is to listen to these wonderful speeches of yours.

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Mathologer tells us about what happens when you stack a bunch of circles within a box. There's some amazing geometry here.

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Level UP shows us what happens when Pong has Zelda Physics (or rather, what happens when Link and Zelda play Pong using Zelda weapons...). It's interesting to see how Zelda weapon physics interact with Pong physics.

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Recently I read my "The Inner Light" fiver again, and one of my jokes seems a lot less funny these days...


Kamin: The world is doomed! You can fire me with a hefty pension for insanity now.
Administrator: Not on your life. First of all, you're right, and second of all we like to keep our insane elected officials where we can see them.
Kamin: But isn't a system of government like that doomed to failure?
Administrator: You'd think so, but it's not.

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Watchtower Database (if you like the DCAU you should subscribe) gives the equivalent of the Westphall Multiverse for the DCAU. Basically the DCAU touches all other versions of DC properties, the Scooby Doo multiverse (this also means that the whole Hannah Barbera multiverse is also linked in, but he doesn't mention that), the TMNT multiverse, Archie, the Green Hornet, the Bionic Woman, the (British) Avengers, the Looney Tunes/Freakazoid/Animaniacs multiverse, etc.



The phrase "turtles all the way down" comes to mind. This stuff will drive you insane if you let it.

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The evolution of the Enterprise D set over the series and Generations.



Yikes, I didn't notice most of this stuff!