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OmgWoah it’s a sweet Flash implementation of 2D physics. Don’t forget to click and drag everything (and push left and right arrow to get to the other examples).

Sorry to disappoint everyone who thought I was talking about the upcoming film about theologians and philosophers but there is some news floating around about a documentary of Calvin and Hobbes and it’s creator, the ever-elusive Bill Waterson. Sounds like a fantastic idea to me.

Don’t forget about some of the older C&H related posts here:
Waterson’s early work
Ask Calvin’s Dad – the answers
Comics on loan to OSU
Calvin and Hobbes redux

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From the mind that brought you one hundred cups of coffee comes lost gloves, the photolog of the sad and lonely lost gloves found around Berlin.

Congress just passed the FY2008 budget. The budget includes devastating budget cuts to the DOE office of science, which funds many physicists (including me and everyone I work with). I wrote an email to the Illinois Senators, and I got a reply from Barack Obama! See if Obama passes a turning test in my full writeup.

At some point I gave my address to a software company or some company affiliated with video games, because for the last view months I’ve been receiving gaming based magazines that I never signed up for and never pay for. Mostly I scan through them to see some reviews, get a quick pro/con rundown of new games, and then toss them. But the one I received today contained a fairly lengthy article about Street Fighter 4, which I immediately flipped to and read. I must say, if the development team sticks to their current game plan, this should be awesome. They are trying to keep it completely old school with a newer edge. They want to keep the 2D fighting style but have the characters and environments 3D, and from the screenshots in the article, it’s looking good. And besides the new look and a couple new characters, it’s going to be SF2 all over again, which is the way SF should be. They also added in a Saves system, which wasn’t explained horribly in depth, but sounds like a system for dodge/block/counter/recover. They also plan on using the 3D animation to allow the characters to show emotion, so they’ll look more raggad as the fight wears on, look in pain when they get hit, and look angry when trhowing out massive combos. All in all, I think it should be pretty solid. No release date yet, but they’re hoping late 2008 to coincide with SF’s 20th anniversary.

The sequel to Batman Begins, The dark Knight, comes out this spring/summer. It features Christian Bale and Michael Cane again, but this time they’re backed by Heath Ledger as the Joker. In the new full length trailer you get a good feel for the direction Ledger took the new Joker. It looks like he’ll do a pretty good job, though I think the choice of makeup is a little over dramatic. At some points in the little bit of his dialog you hear, he actually sounds like Jack Nicholson. I’m interested in seeing exactly where they will take the plot, since I get a feeling from the trailer that Bruce Wayne fights some inner demons throughout the movie, which I fear could turn it into Spiderman with a cape.

I found a Wired article with advice on how to blog from this guy:

The article itself isn’t that great. But I was curious what that guy might have to say about blogging.

I just moved out to Chicago at the start of the month (I’ll add a post later about the awful experience of driving out here in an ice storm.) I’ll be out here until I finish my degree. I’ve started another blog with my roommates from Columbus: 356w.wordpress.com.

I can hear your comments now: “Another blog? But you barely post here!”. To work around this, I plan duplicate my meager posts on both blogs. Also, I plan to steal content from both blogs and post it as my own…. mwwahahaha! Actually, the amount of cross linking (with proper attribution) between blogs should increase my post rate.

(I started the new blog with classic content: choo choo rocket)

I would have to agree with most of the comment posting, that anyone who builds a robot spider mech isn’t a redneck, but check out the vidayo:

Here’s a grade-B mediocre comic that’s semi-autobiographical. As I was uploading the comic I realized it might be my first comic effort since “Mr Scraps,” my 24-hour comic of October. It’s was a little to sweet for me so I threw in some cameos of testicles and boobs. Try to enjoy…