Quake, Trips, and Insane People

So, I've recently started playing around with the Quake II game engine (more specifically, Jake2, a Java port of the original). Not much to say on it yet, only that it is incredibly powerful and well-written, given that it's a cross-platform, hardware-accelerated port of a decade-old game. I'm going to be borrowing some of its design concepts for a project of my own within the near future.

Click it to view it in full-resolution. If you're not too chicken to handle the size, that is...

Secondly, this following week is going to be an awesome one. 3 trips in 5 days - Cambridge Uni for a maths talk, tour around the Diamond Synchrotron, and some DT-related visit. With a name like the Diamond Synchrotron, and the general fact that it's a particle accelerator, how could it possibly fail to be awesome? Disregarding the risk of it creating a black hole in the middle of Oxfordshire and destroying all life as we know it, of course. (To see why people complaining about the risks of particle accelerators, and the LHC specifically, should cease spewing their uneducated opinions as loudly as possible, see this).

Image from the Synchrotron's website, found here 

In other, considerably less awesome news, I discovered (well, was linked to) a website with rather conservative views, and happened to read a selection of their top 100 list of "reasons not to watch porn". The highlights include, in summary:

39. It hurts.
40. It can lead into further addictions.
48. Sex is gross.
58. You don't have any internets left.
69. You laugh at immature things. *snirk*

I kid you not, some people actually believe that those are valid points to make.

Yours hopefully-more-able-to-think-critically-than-they-can,
Charlie