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Marvel Avengers Movie Marathon for $20
Open: 05/03/2012
Runtime: 744 min
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genre: Marathon
Synopsis: See the Marvel Avengers Movie Marathon at Cinemark! See 6 Marvel Avengers movies back-to-back for one price: $20.
Iron Man
PG-13, (126 mins)
Start time at 12 noon
The Hulk
PG-13, (114 mins)
Start time at 2:50 PM
Iron Man 2
PG-13, (125 mins)
Start time at 5:00 PM
Thor - RealD 3D
PG-13, (115 mins)
Start time at 7:20 PM
Captain America - RealD 3D
PG-13, (124 mins)
Start time at 9:30 PM
The Avengers - RealD 3D
PG-13, (140 mins)
Start time at 12:01 AM midnight
(late Thursday night)
See The Avengers late Thursday night at midnight before anyone else!
ENJOY DISCOUNTED CONCESSIONS*! Purchase a Large Fountain or Frozen Drink and get unlimited $1.00 refills. *Discounted concessions are valid for the Marvel Avengers Movie Marathon ticket holders on Thursday, May 3rd only. No exchanges or substitutions. No cash value
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So much better than the AMC deal
@gopvifootball: Seriously. Wish I could get the day off work, I tried.
I really, REALLY want to do this but I'm worried I won't be able to stand 12.5 hours worth of movies, even if it's Marvel...
No locations in MN... =( This is such a great deal! I DO have school that day though too....... but no one has to know THAT. o_o
@dergage: I take it back. I am totally doing this.
UUUUGGGGHHH!! If I didn't have kids and a job...
Ick, I can only imagine the B.O. smell after 12 hours.
Yay, they have it in my town! The concession discounts are a nice touch, $10-11 is going to cover a big drink with $1 refills, a big popcorn with $2 refills and a hot dog. I have already bought a couple of tickets and emailed all my friends the link. Now we just have to find some sucker willing to go stand in line for it so that we can get decent seats. When we went to the Lord of the Rings marathon we actually had a couple of teenaged friends camp out in line overnight. We plied them with burgers and coffee. Ours was the second group in and we got our favorite row. We had a really great time. Back then the theater had a pizzeria so we were able to buy pizza all day. Hot dogs aren't quite as satisfying, so I expect there will be some smuggling of better food involved in a 13+hour stay at the theater.
UUUUGGGGHHHH! If I didn't have a life...
I would, but I've been reluctant to go to a Cinemark ever since I heard about the man who died in one of their bathrooms and wasn't found by employees and management for 5 whole days. I like my movie theater restrooms inspected daily, thanks.
I really hope they're showing "The Incredible Hulk," that is part of the current Marvel Universe, and not "The Hulk," which was the poorly reviewed movie that came out 10 years ago.
@djp519: Definitely the one with Edward Norton (Incredible Hulk). This one has the Avengers tie-in.
Wow, $20 is just over the price of 1 3D movie let alone 3 + 3 non-3D. Unfortunately I only have 4 hours of vacation after my last trip and I would have to take friday off too.
wish there was a theater closer to me!
On a Thurrrrsday? Awesome deal, but the one day a week I can't take off. Too bad.
I REALLY want to go to this! I think my husband might leave me if I take 2 days vacation to watch 13 hours of movies though :( Maybe I could be coughsickcough?
I bought this, since the theatre is closer, but now I need to figure out the refund policy for the 5 movie marathon I bought from regal cinemas (via fandago) a few days ago. :)
Anyone have any insight on that?
Having only one working eye, I'm disappointed that I won't be able to attend given that two of the movies will be screened in REAL 3D. :(
OMG I sooo want to go! Price is amazing!
6 hours of 3D? Hope you bring some Advil.
@fitbabits: That sucks. Maybe these would be able to help you. http://www.2d-glasses.com/
Great promotion, but why is no one else doing this!! There is not a participating theater within a 10 hour driving radius of me! ={
I really want to do this but I just can't last 14+ hours. I have a hard enough time making it through just one Lord of the Rings film.
@bobotheboinger: Try telling them you'll be in France at the time fulfilling your duties as a latex salesman for Vandelay Industries. It won't work, of course, but you may give someone a chuckle during an otherwise tedious shift working the helpline.
I never thought I would ever say this, but: WHY DO I LIVE IN NY???
No showings here :'(
@bobotheboinger: Try Craigslisting it if you can't get a refund. I expect these will sell out so you should be able to get your money out of it. I would sell it for cost, though. You don;t want to get busted for scalping.
@rayray8822: I am actually a bit worried about that. We quit watching 3D films because it gave us both headaches. I guess I can close my eyes and just listen part of the time to give my eyes a much-needed rest.
Cant wait to go! looks like I'm going to have to learn to not pee for 12 hours!
@moondrake: Check my post above. They're supposed to help those that get headaches from 3D movies. They knock out the 3D, but that's better than a headache I suppose.
I'd do this if it was local, or even within an hours drive.... Too bad its not
The theaters should provide breaks and some real food. 12 hours getting nothing but popcorn, watching movies you've seen a thousand times before? Not my idea of fun. I'll stay at work, thank you.
The only problem is 3 back-to-back-to-back 3D films. I really think they should have thrown the non-3D movies in between the others. Each movie stands alone and can be shown in any order(except obviously for IM 1&2).
It would be interesting to see how many people take a break and during which films. I know I'd get up during IM 2 to stretch, run a little bit and rest my eyes.
@bobotheboinger: You can go to your Regal to pick up your tickets, and then ask them to refund them. Fandango charges an extra charge per ticket, which has nothing to do with the theater though, so for that extra $1 or $1.50, whatever it is per ticket you'll have to contact Fandango
@fitbabits: You can wear the glasses to filter out the second image. You'd get a 2d image overall but be able to watch the movie, even with one eye.
@fitbabits: Have you ever tried it? Theoretically, putting on the glasses should make it look like a normal movie for you. Unlike some other forms of 3D, RealD gives the full movie to each eye. That's why it's actually caught on unlike the red/ green glasses that used to be the norm. Im always playing around with my glasses in the theater and can tell you that a 3D movie shouldn't be off limits for you. It wouldn't exactly be worth paying the premium price normally but with a deal this good, you could certainly try it out.
This would be too much for me personally. I can barely sit through one of these movies. Not because they're bad (except for Iron Man) but because I'm restless.
How did my post get downvoted? People on here are so stupid.
Just an update, I was able to get a refund from fandango after two emails back and forth with their support. So, I appreciate that and may actually use their service again since they were able to help me.
I went to AMC and they were very nice about refunding my tickets.
Thank you for the post. Saved a lot of money.
@samjung23: What do you mean? You'd rather be at work than be watching movies all day? Like my father used to say, "Even the worst day of fishing is better than the best day at work..."
Who wouldn't want to play hookie to satisfy their inner-nerd?
Staying in a movie theater for over a day, watching old movies with nerds, eating popcorn, is NOT my idea of fun. I can do that at home, thank you. At least provide a decent lunch or dinner during a break. This sounds like paying for torture. I'd rather go work and get paid for it.
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The other day I read a cigar review from....well, a magazine that writes cigar reviews. The tasting notes included 'a touch of linen.' WHAT?! I've seen some odd tasting notes in the past....pencil lead, avocado, motor oil, etc. But linen? "This cigar tastes of a 50/50 blend of polyester and pre-shrunk cotton. Personally, I prefer a microfiber blend." Needless to say, this amazing find left me wanting to write a cigar review, whilst donning a comfy microfiber shirt. Yes, that is my intro for this review....totally unrelated, but linen? Really?
While digging through my desktop humidor on Monday, I discovered a nicely aged Warlock Toro. It's a big, meaty Toro measuring 6"x54 with some notable weight to it, and a dark, leathery wrapper. Now, Warlock is a cigar I've heard and read a lot about. Customers seemed excited about its release....but I haven't noticed much chatter lately. That said, I closed my humidor and decided to light up the Warlock Toro.
The cigar opened with a relatively mellow bouquet. Toasty, warm, slight tobacco influence. Thick clouds of heavy smoke billowed above my head from the get-go. Shortly thereafter, I began to pick up a touch of leather. A very faint nuance, overpowered by a glaring floral note. The finish was quite metallic. Aluminum if you will. This metallic influence is very sharp and lingers long after each puff. If you've read any of my reviews, you know I do not like floral, and I do not like metallic. It's just not for me. I know AVO and Davidoff cigars have a definite floral note to them – and a lot of people love AVO, so there's no doubt a market for this – I am just not a fan. Either way, I kept going, hoping the underlying leathery characteristic would grower richer, or something would change. It did not.
I'll be honest with you. I did not finish this cigar. In fact, I put it down in my ashtray for good just before the midway point. The cigar was not offensive – I just wasn't enjoying it, and given its hefty size and slow burn, I really had no interest in continuing with this specific cigar. However, given the factory it hails from, I would not turn down the opportunity to try it again, especially in a different size. Regardless, my review must be based on this cigar and, I am sad to say, it was disappointing.

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Touch of Grey: Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia Talks Gear, His Near-Fatal Illness and 'In The Dark'
Garcia and the band had several years to play much of the new material live and develop its arrangements before making the record.
Garcia pointed out that he never played "Touch of Grey" the same way twice before it was recorded. When asked if the recoded version represents his idea of the ideal guitar sounds, he answered, "It has enough contrast with the other elements in the mix so that it comes through on its own.
I selected the sound based on what it does with the other things, so it sort of fits in, it has sort of a bell-like top and that fits in with the bells and metal-like top end on the track. The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things. Most of the things I've tried I've tried in live performances, so selecting this tone was not a problem; and the band has gotten very, very good. On a great night, sometimes miraculous things happen. But for a record, it's an okay record." What a long, strange trip it's been … but of course, the Dead is more a live band than anything else, so you have to see this statement in context.
As usual, Garcia played his customized guitar on In The Dark. "I have one custom guitar which I play almost exclusively," Garcia said. "I have others—sometimes you want a little texture, kind of a different sound or something My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock 'n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do," he smiles.
"It's not really me—I don't design guitars or any of that kind of stuff, since I don't have that kind of mind. The guy that made this guitar, Doug Irwin, is a luthier, a guitar-builder. His guitars all have great hands. My hand falls upon one of them and it says 'play me,' and it's one of those things not all guitars do. Some guitars definitely don't do it, but his guitars do that and it's just a special thing.
"It's not entirely a matter of balance, it's not a matter of dimensions, of measurable stuff, it's something indefinable, but my hand loves it. There's almost like a physical attraction. The man's work is museum quality, the workmanship and the detail—it's a beautiful instrument. But even the aesthetics of it are not what make me like them, it's just the way it feels in my hand. I don't know what it is, he doesn't even know what it is, but he just builds them the way he thinks I would like them, and it works perfectly."
Garcia found Irwin by the same process of serendipity that he uses to explain a lot of the fortuitous coincidences he's experienced. "He was working for a friend of mine, I picked up a guitar that he had built the neck for at a guitar store and said 'Wow! Where did this come from? I gotta have this guitar.' I bought the guitar, and that's the first guitar I'd gotten where he built the neck and then I said, 'Who's the guy who made this neck?' and the friends of mine that he was working for said, 'This guy over here.' I commissioned him to build me a guitar, and he did, and I played that guitar for most of the seventies.
"When he delivered it to me, I said, 'Now I want you to build me what you think would be the ultimate guitar. I don't care when you deliver it, I don't care how much it's gonna cost or anything else.' A couple of months later he told me it would cost about three grand, which at the time was a lot for a guitar, since it was the early Seventies. He delivered the guitar to me in '78, eight years later. I'd forgotten I'd paid for it.
"Whatever the guitar says to me, I play."
The Dead Play Dylan
Most bands who've survived the near-fatal illness of their lead guitarist, then gone on to make their first record in seven years would pat themselves on the back and call it a day. But not the Grateful Dead. They decided to go out on a mind-bending mini-tour of the nation's biggest stadiums with Bob Dylan. "It's serendipity," said the Dead's lead guitarist, Jerry Garcia.


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The celebration of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday in Bowling Green didn't stop with just a march.
It was standing room only at the State Street Baptist Church for speaker Dorothy Parker Jarrett.
Jarrett is the cousin of Emmett Till.
Till was brutally murdered in 1955 after he spoke to a married white woman.
Jarrett says America has come a long way since those days and MLK day is a day everyone should stop and reflect.
"It is all coming together for a purpose and so I hope that we all do seize the moment and move forward and stay the course so that we can become the nation that we really are and supposed to be, " says Jarrett.
Jarrett also touched on the importance of education in her speech as she is a middle school principal in Gwinnett County, Georgia.


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The Coutts Museum of Art will be holding their monthly Brown Bag Lunch Program from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday. Local musicians Teresa Bachman and Don Koke will be performing for the program, which will also feature an appearance by John Jenkinson.
Bachman performs with the 37-Mile Band, and since her recent retirement, has had some time to work up some seasonal songs with Koke.
Koke is a humanities instructor at Butler Community College and proprietor of the Iron Horse Concert Hall in downtown El Dorado.
The two will be playing tunes that celebrate winter, Solstice and Christmas. They'll be singing some of favorites, such as "In the Bleak Midwinter," the Huron Carol "'Twas In The Moon of Winter Time" and the Bill Monroe instrumental "Cold Frosty Morning."
In addition, Koke is planning on playing a brand new song with lyrics by El Dorado poet and Coutts Museum member Ted Farmer. Jenkinson is also expected to sit in with the duo and sing his rendition of audience favorite "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth." He will also join Bachman, Koke and the audience for a fun sing-along of holiday favorites to close out the show.
The Coutts Museum of Art, located in downtown El Dorado, is a regional destination art museum that houses more than 1,500 works of art in an historic downtown building. The collection includes Art of the American West, contemporary American, European, and regional Kansas art. The museum is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays. The museum and all Brown Bag Programs are always free and open to the public, funded in part by El Dorado Main Street. Check the Coutts' Facebook page at www.facebook.com/couttsmuseum for updates on museum activities.
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26 May 2010 1:12 AM #1
How can i have more trial ?
i would like to test extjs designer few days ago and my project priority have changed. So i would lauch it this morning and a nag screen told me that trial period is expired ?
How can i do to have few days to try it ?
5 Jun 2010 12:45 PM #2
I must admit myself that a 14 day trial seems a bit stingy. Why not do a 30 day trial like most of the rest of the software world?
I can't say for other people, but I myself am playing with Ext Designer, Visual Studio, and a few other things to understand what my correct direction is. I will almost certainly not decide within 2 weeks.
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text: Here is the second Angry Bird character that I said I was going to upload. Many of you know this bird as 'The White Bird', but then again some of you also know her as Matilda. She was first introduced back in 2009 and because of this she is also considered one of the foundation birds that started the whole Angry Birds epidemic. She is shaped like an egg because that is what she is based on. Matilda starts out as an egg, but later grows to be a solid white chicken. Drawing White Bird or Matilda is going to be pretty darn simple since all you will be doing is making an egg and then adding some eyes and a beak. If there are other Angry Birds characters that you would like to see lessons on, just leave me a comment to let me know. Adios people and good luck.


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BELL COUNTY (October 5, 2012)--A Thursday morning fire in a southern Bell County Buddhist community that destroyed a storage building and severely damaged an expensive statue has been ruled accidental.
Bell County Fire Marshal Steve Casey said Friday the fire likely was caused by an electrical short.
In all the estimate of damage exceeded about $100,000.
Ron Phaxton, spokesman for the community that is just off State Highway 195 south of Briggs Rd., said a storage shed was destroyed, along with two doors that had been brought from Thailand for the Temple.
Temple Wat Pah Samarkki was not actually damaged, but a statue valued at more than $10,000, that also was brought from Thailand, was damaged in the fire, Phaxton said.
About 10 people live in the community and Phaxton said seven of them were there when the fire broke out.
State law requires any fire at a place of worship to be investigated.
No one was injured in the blaze.


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RED is a 2010 American action-comedy film inspired by the limited comic book series of the same name created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, and published by the DC Comics imprint Homage.
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6 Random Things (Other Than Drugs) That Reduce Pain
#3. Imagination
The over medication of children is a huge concern in the Western world. Many parents are worried about giving their kids pills for every little thing during a time when their bodies are still developing, and understandably so. As it turns out, kids have an effective pain killing ability that we jaded adults have completely lost.
On the plus side? More pills for us.
That ability is imagination. A child's ability to enter a made-up dream world is actually so strong that it has psychosomatic effects on the body. According to this study, getting a child to imagine that he is floating on a cloud is actually a more effective pain reliever than prescription drugs. The study concentrated on stomach pain, one of the most common childhood ailments and one that usually has no obvious or serious reason behind it.
Instead of subjecting kids to unnecessary pills or expensive medical care, the doctors found that using "guided imagery" (basically the same sort of thing that meditation tapes do) can usually completely eliminate abdominal pain with no medical intervention whatsoever.
Shut up and imagine.
#2. Your Hands
It turns out there is a reason you grab your ankle the second you sprain it tripping over a table leg, spilling Mountain Dew Livewire all over your pewter Dungeons & Dragons figures. It doesn't make sense logically -- none of us has glowing E.T. fingers, yet we all do it.
Apparently this is because touching our own wounds helps our bodies deal with pain as it allows our brains to better "map out" the part of our body the pain is coming from. The more information the brain gets about the actual location, the better it can process and effectively deal with the pain. So actually, grabbing the afflicted area with two hands is the best option if you want it to feel better faster.
One way or another, that pain is gonna stop.
#1. Religion
Say what you want about religion, but science says it can literally take your pain away. Researchers found that devout Catholics are better able to handle electrical shocks than atheists or agnostics, at least as long as they're looking at a picture of the Virgin Mary.
We'll stick with Vicodin and sloe gin.
Participants of all beliefs were told to look at two different paintings while their hands were being shot up with electricity. Those of the Catholic faith reported less pain when looking at a painting of the virgin mother as opposed to a painting of a random lady by Leonardo da Vinci, while the atheists and agnostics did not feel any pain relief no matter what painting they looked at.
It seems, this is more than just your run-of-the-mill placebo effect. The religious test subjects showed increased brain activity, while non-religious subjects had no increased brain activity. In other words, while the pain relief might have all been in the subjects' minds, looking at the painting actually did decrease the amount of pain they experienced, which is more than can be said for most holistic medicine practices.
Whereas grilled cheese sandwiches and cotton balls tend to just piss people off.
Alcohol is also a good painkiller. See how in The 6 Most Surprising Ways Alcohol Is Actually Good for You. Or learn what else music does for you, in 7 Insane Ways Music Affects The Body (According to Science).


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If you love the Fremont Street Experience like I do, then one great way to stay in the heart of it is to book your room at 202 Fremont Street – The Four Queens. The Four Queens offers small (by Vegas standards) clean, comfortable rooms with all the expected amenities for a very reasonable price, right in the heart of Fremont. The casino has a classy old-school vibe, yet still contains some of the newer games. There are plenty of good paytables for video poker enthusiasts. You get Hugo's for upscale, romantic (ladies receive a rose) basement dining, and Chicago Brewing Company for great pizza and beer.
I stayed on a gambling comp, which are easy to come by. Just give them a little play with a player's card at either Four Queens or Binion's and you're likely to get comped or discounted room offers for the Four Queens. That said, even the going rate to the general public is quite reasonable. Midweek rates are showing for $37/night with your third night free throughout the month of July as of this writing. Some nights on the rate calendar are as low as $29.
My "Standard Deluxe" room included a comfortable queen bed, flat screen television, coffee maker, electronic safe, hair dryer, iron and ironing board. There were two desks with chairs for work and a clock radio on the nightstand to wake me in the morning. All the basics. The bathroom was adequate with one sink and a tub. The shower head was high enough for a six footer to use without too many contortions. Toiletries were limited to soap, conditioner and shampoo. All were adequate but not fancy.
On this particular trip I decided to go against all the advice I have read online and book a low floor in the North Tower. The common advice is to either request a high floor or the South Tower in order to avoid the noise from Fremont Street keeping you up at night. I figured it's Vegas… why would I be trying to sleep before 1am?
So, I will preface this with a word of warning – if it is important to you to sleep between the hours of 6pm and 1am, then you should definitely follow conventional wisdom and avoid these rooms. However, if you love the Fremont Street Experience and you plan to be up during the Viva Vision show anyways, then a room like mine on the sixth floor of the North Tower facing Fremont Street affords a pretty amazing experience.
If you're up high like the room I had on the eleventh floor on a previous trip, you look down upon the framing and scaffolding of the Viva Vision screen… it's not a pretty sight. Furthermore, the screen actually blocks your view of all the cool casinos on Fremont. You might hear the Viva Vision shows, but they're on the opposite side of the screen, so you see nothing more than a few flashes of light. However, my room on the sixth floor looked right out on Fremont Street. I could see the full length of the screen with very little obstruction, and the music was loud enough to penetrate the window to my room. It was like having a luxury box for the Viva Vision shows!
I'm pretty sure this is the best view you can get of the Viva Vision shows from a hotel room. I took these video clips of the Doors and Bon Jovi shows from inside my room:
Another advantage of the North Tower at Four Queens is that these rooms are the closest rooms to Fremont Street of all the hotels. It takes about fifteen steps to reach the sidewalk from the North Tower elevators. So, if you're out having a good time on Fremont and want to make a trip back to your room, it's quick and easy. I find that to be a big advantage staying downtown as I'm often popping back up to the room to change camera batteries, grab a drink, or use the bathroom.
So, grab a room at the Four Queens and ask for a low floor in the North Tower. You get a decent clean room with all the amenities you need, a short walk to and from the Experience, box seats (your room) to the Viva Vision shows, all inside a classy old-school casino with good video poker, good restaurants and beer. You get all of this with no Resort Fees and no "Fremont Experience Fee". I'd call that a win!
- For those that are unaware, the "Fremont Street Experience Fee" is a new controversial $5 per night mandatory fee being charged by the Golden Nugget, which, unlike a Resort Fee, includes no amenities.
Update (11JUL13): The name of the "Fremont Experience Fee" at the Golden Nugget has been changed. It is now referred to as the "Downtown Destination Fee" and includes a coupon book for local attractions.
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All the many campaigns, operations, and deployments the Royal Navy has conducted around the world in the past fifty years are examined in this new history by John Roberts. With privileged access to secret and confidential Admiralty plans and commanding officers' reports, the author provides a wealth of previously unpublished information covering the period from the Cold War and the Cod Wars to the Falklands War and the Gulf Wars. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of rarely seen photographs, it tells the story of how the Royal Navy has adapted to meet new challenges and carried out such vital roles as manning the nation's strategic nuclear deterrent and guarding offshore oil and gas facilities. Published as a golden jubilee tribute to the Royal Navy, this complete history also covers the development of ships, submarines, aircraft, weapons, tactics, and strategies.


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How do I draw "Rays" emitting from an object in an image in Photoshop?
Example from http://www.pxleyes.com
Quick & dirty method
Use readily available
Just draw that shape behind the object you want to "emit rays". Here are the shape's
More unique method
Pick up the
This would be one of your rays. Copy it, modify them if you wish and rotate them, so they all are pointing into one spot. While this isn't too hard, it takes considerably more time than the first method, especially if you are approaching the deadline.
The fading of the rays could be achieved with a
Here's my way...
Prepare an empty layer. Draw a rectangular marquee across the half of the layer. (like on the image above).
Fill that selection with your desired ray color.
Select Filter > Distort > Wave. Select the Square type and adjust the wavelength to increase/decrease bars (max and min the same value). Apply.
Select Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates. Select 'Rectangular to Polar'.
Modify your generated rays. You're done. =]
There are many ways to draw sunbursts in Photoshop and Illustrator. But this is by far the slickest.


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6 Scary Tricks That Amazed Us As Kids (Explained By Science)
For many of us, gathering with a group of unsupervised peers and scaring the shit out of ourselves was a rite of passage. At slumber parties we watched horror movies, told ghost stories and strapped ourselves to railroad tracks while high on cough syrup.
Scariest of all were the games that everyone seemed to know, even without the benefit of YouTube tutorials -- tricks that supposedly unlocked magical powers or malicious spirits. And the funny thing is, these games have been going on for generations because on some level, they work.
It wasn't demonology behind our scariest party pastimes, but science.
#6. Bloody Mary
For the holy grail of pants-shittingly horrifying party tricks, look no further than Bloody Mary. The game goes like this: You stand in front of a mirror, alone, in the dark, and say "BLOODY MARY BLOODY MARY BLOODY MARY!" And then (allegedly) a woman appears in the mirror. Then she scratches your face off.
If it's real, it really shouldn't be legal.
"You'll be hearing from my lawyer, Mary."
But after weeks of searching through archived newspapers and microfiche, we haven't actually found anyone who summoned a psychotic person via mirror. Still, at this very moment, somewhere there's a 12-year-old kid standing in a bathroom whispering "Bloody Mary" loud enough for her giggly slumber party guests to hear her. Do you know why?
Because she's going to see something in the mirror.
Even if it's just the realization that all her best years are behind her.
The Science:
If you stare at a mirror long enough, you're going to see some freaky shit.
One psychologist set up an experiment where he had 50 people gaze at a dimly lit mirror for 10 minutes. Afterward, participants wrote down what they saw, if anything. Before we share the results, bear in mind that this was not a slumber party and no one was told they'd see anything horrific beforehand.
Except maybe a reflection of that bitch Mandy snogging that guy you like.
Sixty-six percent of participants reported massive deformations of their own face. Eighteen percent saw one of their parents with a few traits altered; 10 percent of those parents were already dead. Twenty-eight percent saw a stranger's face, like a child or an old woman. Most revealing of all, perhaps, was that almost half of the participants saw "fantastical and monstrous beings."
Why? Well, for one thing, if you stare at anything long enough -- and we mean just stare at it, not look at it while doing something else, like shaving -- your vision starts to distort it. One reason is the Troxler effect. Stare at the target below for 20 seconds or so:
Combine with liquor for free vertigo!
Did the dots start to disappear after a while? If not, you did it wrong. The idea is that our brains are wired to stop taking in the same thing over and over again, just for our own sanity. Imagine always being aware of your limbs, of sitting in a chair, of every breath and every blink. Life would suck. So, as a neat trick, our neurons cancel out information that's constant.
Like that damn baby your girlfriend dumped on you.
What does this have to do with Bloody Mary? Because our faces don't have a central point, like that target above, it's the whole face that starts to blur, or distort, as our brain starts to cancel parts of it out. The result is some kind of horrific monster face, staring back from the mirror. And of course, "Bloody Mary" can't actually attack her victim as per the legend, since said victim quickly runs squealing out of the bathroom before she gets the chance.
#5. Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board
For kids who have no problem putting their fingers on their friends' butts, this game is a slumber party staple. A volunteer lays down on the floor, usually with the arms crossed over his or (who are we kidding?) her chest. Another four sit around her and attempt to lift her body using nothing but their index and middle fingers. At first, the attempt fails because the lifters aren't tapping into the magic power yet -- it only proves that under normal circumstances, a person is too heavy to lift this way.
But then begins the chant: "Light as a feather, stiff as a board. Light as a feather, stiff as a board." A countdown follows: "1, 2, 3 and LIFT."
This time, up the body goes, with only finger power lifting it.
Oh, and this guy. Don't mind him.
The Science:
There are a number of things going on here, and none of them require the devil's interference, fortunately.
It begins with that first attempt, the one that fails. You may be shocked to know that it isn't a lack of faith or witchcraft holding everybody back, but the fact that the group isn't really coordinating their lifting. Frequently, participants are told to just try hefting little Madison off the floor without any kind of initiation or plan, causing the kind of completely disjointed and bullshit effort you get from a bunch of teenage girls.
"I am not scraping Becky's remains from the walls. It's Jen's turn."
But synchronize the four lifters' eight index and middle fingers together, like, oh, maybe with a chant, and suddenly you have more than enough lifting power to heft a schoolgirl. And note that limiting the lifters to two fingers isn't much of a disadvantage -- the index and the middle fingers are the strong ones (if you don't believe us, take note of how you carry your groceries next time). Louis Cyr, an old-timey strong man, could lift over 550 pounds with just his middle digit. We were going to add another joke here, but then we saw this picture ...
... and decided there was nothing else to say about Louis Cyr.
Anyway, thanks to perfectly synchronized fingers, the volunteer ascends easily and really, really high, too, right? Well no, not actually. The other thing about this game is the magic of exaggerated memories.
Chad Riley
"Yeah, and he totally shot out of the window and did three laps of the block before we even finished our beers."
No one will accurately remember just how high they were able to lift Kaitlyn last night at the sleepover. Dr. Karl S. Kruszelnicki of ABC Science says he has yet to see one game of light as a feather, stiff as a board turn out like the urban legend describes. A more accurate account of "We lifted her way off the ground and held her there for like a minute" would be "We got her up a couple inches and dropped her after a few seconds and then we ate some more candy and called some boys and hung up on them."
#4. Ouija Boards
The oldest one in the book.
You get your friends together and decide to sit down in a dark room and try to contact spirits. You get out the Ouija board, and everyone simply places their hands on an indicator, called a planchette, that moves around a board and points to letters in order to spell out words or phrases. Before you know it, your long-dead grandma's back in touch and you're having to explain your masturbation habits to her.
"It's kind of an up-down stroking motion, really. Why are you even asking me this?"
The Science:
What's awesome about Ouija boards is that the real reason it works is almost as spooky as the ghost explanation: You're actually communicating, not with the dead, but with the subconscious part of your brain.
"M...I...L...K...B...R...E...A...D... guys, I think my subconscious is really fucking boring."
Your hands move the piece across the Ouija board due to involuntary movements in your muscles, which are called the ideomotor effect. Basically, your brain can and will move your muscles without your express permission because, for the most part, your body kinda operates on autopilot anyway. It's just usually not brought to your attention (you'll notice it the next time a light stops working in a room, but you unconsciously keep flipping the switch every time you walk in anyway).
So with the Ouija board, you subconsciously think of a response to the question and your brain subtly moves the planchette where it wants it. Maybe not enough for it to work if you were using the board alone (though it is for some people -- it's likely how water dowsing works), but when you get a few people together and they're all subconsciously pulling, it creates the distinct sensation that the planchette is moving on its own accord.
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"The Cosmic Vibrations demand that you go down on me."
It's so weird that the explanation itself sounds like bullshit. But if you want further proof that it's us humans doing all the soothsaying, just check out this experiment, where magicians Penn & Teller blindfolded some random people, flipped the Ouija board 180 degrees and had them try to contact the spirit of the guy who played Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy. The results are less than startling.
In theory, ghosts should be able to direct their hands no matter the orientation of the board, right? Turns out, without being able to see the board, they just kinda move their hands to where they think the letters are.


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''All teams, contact at twelve and eleven o'clock. Hundred plus hostiles.
Fax didnt need his earpiece to see that they were heavily outnumbered. He shoved his visor up and saw the mess with his own eyes. He shove his visor back and looked at the FO, which was also aboard the gunship.
You better make sure those birds are ready to strike. He said to the FO, who nodded.
No problem. Just waiting for the sign.
The four others had their weapons tight in their hands and were eager to fight. They were all covered in white armor, with a black cross emblazoned on the chest and shoulder pieces. The Crusaders were ready to rumble.
Fax took his rifle from the floor and linked to his HUD. His ammunition, tactical information about enemies, crosshair and weapon heat were all displayed in it. He pushed the magazine into the rifle, and the ammunition bar on his HUD lit up.
He looked to the far side of the landing zone and saw a couple of Gnomes operating 3 sonic cannons. Fax hated Gnomes, they were small midgets, around 1,30 meters tall, who had a knack for using knifes on the unprotected places of your armor and jumping unto your neck while trying to bite in it. The reason why Fax hated the Gnomes was that they were extremely cowardly, but also very loyal. It wouldnt be the first time if they fled and came to return a minute later, making it very hard to progress.
Luckily, they werent very strong or well armed. Often they were armed with whatever they could find - weapons looted from fallen enemies, sharp pieces of scrap, pipes, sharpened poles and even more ridiculous items - but this time they held some good weaponry in their tiny hands, something that uneases Fax.
Those weapons could pose a serious problem, as the Dominion - The government Fax and the Crusaders fought for - usually relied on a technological and firepower advantage, something that they didnt have at the moment.
Nevertheless, this operation needed to succeed, or the whole war could drastically change. The Dominion needed to destroy this factory if they wanted to uphold its current status in the war, mainly victorious over the unorganized enemy. The plan was pretty simple - take out the enemy presence in the LZ and keep it until the other team had planted the nuke. The execution of it proved to be more difficult.
Crusader-Three, get ready to hammer them with the grenade launcher! Focus on the machine gunners! Fax yelled. FO, you call in that airstrike and soften them up. Crusader-Four and Two, well take out the cannons while One provides covering fire, understood?
Five heads nodded at him and took positions as the team prepared for the sign.
The gunship circled above the Landing zone, multiple enemies firing at it. The Sonic cannons just took out a second gunship just a few meters away from Fax gunship.
On my go. The Fax said, while bullets and plasma jets flew around his head. Go!
The grenade launcher started spitting grenades onto the the Gnomes below. Several were killed by the explosions, while other were badly hit by the shards. Fax jumped out along with Four and Two, and immediately they started shooting down Gnomes.
FO, call in the airstrike! Fax yelled. The FO nodded and spoke the coordinates in the microphone. Fax pulled the trigger again, killing another Gnome. Suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his neck and he acted quickly. He dropped his rifle and threw the Gnome from his back. He beat the tiny creature and then finished it off with his pistol. Another Gnome tried to jump onto Fax, but he was taken out by Ones bullet.
In the meantime the dive-bombers had responded to the call and thundered down with great speed. They quickly dropped their payload and flew away, but not before destroying the cannons with their gatling guns. The Gnome operators foolishly dived away from the explosion, right into the ravine.
Crusader-Four was the fastest of the Crusaders and she showed it to the enemy. She gunned down Gnomes while advancing gracefully over cover with her heavy armor. The Gnomes tried to pursuit her without success. They ran out of breath and quickly surrendered when Crusader-Two pointed his machine gun at them.
Four emptied her magazine onto a unlucky Gnome and quickly replaced it with a full one. She looked over her cover and saw the Gnomes fleeing from the battlefield.
Theyre routing, watch out for traps. She said.
Roger that. Well try to catch up with you. Two replied.
Amen to that. Three added.
Suddenly the whole place was filled with thick grey smoke. Fax quickly switched to thermal vision and so did the rest of his team.
Theyre popping smoke, watch out. Fax said.
Ive established overwatch. No enemy in sight. One replied. Wait, hostiles advancing through the smoke! Looks like Fugazis.
Ah, I was wondering when the fun would begin. Two said.
Fax had reached Fours position. Fax had to admit that even in her armour she looked very good. Problem was that he never had a chance to spend time together aside from in combat. The time he had outside battles were used for rest and training.
Looks like theyre assaulting en masse. Four said. Gnomes, Fugazis and armor. Oh, they also brought Scrappers with them.
Not those again. They look like junk and they smell like them too. Frigging cannibals.
FO, are you getting this? Hostiles are advancing with a large force. Are they nearly done with that nuke?
The nuke is nearly ready. ETA two minutes. Just hold out until then. The FO replied.
Roger that. Fax said.
One, snipe any bastard you see in your scope. Three, bring the grenade launcher here and let them have it. Four and Two, with me.
Acknowledged. All four said.
Fax took out a grenade and Four did the same. They threw them in the direction of the enemy and relocated to another position. The explosion was muffled by the howls of pain from the Gnomes which were in turn muffled by the terrifying scream from a badly injured Fugazi. It was more of a yell of rage and anger than one of pain, making a sound that went straight through Faxs audio filter.
The nuke is ready. I repeat, the nuke is ready. Retreat in the gunships, over.
Acknowledged. Fax said. Team, back to the gunship!
Crusader-One took out several Gnomes with his sniper, as they ran over the battlefield without caring for cover, howling with rage at Fax and Crusader-Four, while Crusader-Three took the armor out with the Grenade launcher. The enemy advance was halted for the time being. The smoking remnants of the vehicles and the many bodies covered the battlefield and left a nasty smell around the place.
Enemy air support! One yelled through the radio.
I see them. Fax said. Get back to the gunship.
Roger that.
All of them started running and they hurried back to the gunship when the enemy pilots saw them. Long jets of plasma erupted from the aircrafts weapons, burning and destroying the area around Crusader team. The aircraft swooped over their heads and dropped their deadly bombs just a few meters from the team.
Watch out! Fax yelled, but it was too late. Four had been hit by shrapnel and had a broken leg. Fax walked down to her and grabbed her hand, pulling her up. She let out a short yell of pain, while Fax carried her in his hand.
Go! Go! Go! He yelled, running as hard as he could, while making sure that Four didnt fall.
The enemy aircraft had made the turn and opened fire with their plasma cannons. A bolt burned the ground just two centimeters from Faxs feet. He continued running but stopped when the second aircraft had hit him with a plasma bolt. The plasma had burned through his armor, horribly injuring his foot. He started to limp, still trying to carry Four with him. Crusader-Two ran to him and took Four from his arms. Three shot the grenade launcher and managed to hit one of the aircraft, disabling one of the plasma cannons. The aircraft flew in a tight side by side formation, and opened fire, when the plasma melted the disabled cannon and the whole aircraft exploded, taking the other one with it.
Meanwhile Two had brought Four inside and Fax had managed to reach the gunship as well. Four laid down covering fire with the grenade launcher and One sniped everything that moved. The gunship departed the ground and when it was some clicks away the all-clear was given to detonate the nuke.
Detonate whenever ready. The FO said to Fax.
The honor is yours. Fax said to Four, who grinned widely, while clutching her leg. She took the detonator and removed the safety, after which she pressed the button.
A large explosion erupted, causing the Crusaders to look down, so they didnt get blind. After it was safe to look up again a huge mushroom cloud towered in the sky, still building up far above the clouds.
Nice work team. Fax said. When we get home Ill buy drinks.
He turned to the FO.
Make sure they have a medical team ready. My foot is melting. He looked at Four, who was unstrapping the armor from her foot. And get a team ready for Four too. He added.
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When working with Bibtex, manually transferring the citation information for articles, prooceedings, books, etc. can be a tedious work. Some web sites provide citations in Bibtex format. What are your favorite sites to get Bibtex citations of your used references?
Here's my compilation of the suggestions given. Feel free to edit other suggestions in as appropriate, in addition to posting each suggestion in a separate answer. Note that this list is manually updated, and may not include all the other answers that have been posted! If you find some other answer helpful, please upvote it as well.
General-purpose reference collections that provide BibTeX citations
Subject-specific collections that provide BibTeX citations
Reference managers that allow BibTeX export/import
MathSciNet a subscription only service (but available on most university campuses) provides BIBTEX entries for the entire mathematical literature.
A nice aspect of their interface is a "clipboard", to which you can save articles, then ask for the BIBTEX for everything on your clipboard all at once.
Mathematicians might also be interested in the shell scripts I wrote that automatically look up BIBTEX entries from MathSciNet, based on missing references in your
For books I usually use a site, where it is possible to get Bibtex citations from Amazon.com articles. This is very good for books, and some inproceedings and incollections might be found here as well.
Amazon: http://lead.to/amazon/en/
As a Software Engineer I quite often have to deal with technical papers from ACM or IEEE. Both their catalogs provide Bibtex export capabilities.
Mendeley allows you to sync your collection with a bibtex file.
If you use Firefox and the wonderful extension Zotero, it can generally parse citation information from any webpage, and export a BibTeX-style citation from it.
Since it hasn't appeared in the other answers, Google Scholar also allows you to download a BibTeX citation for each of its search results. You have to enable the feature from the Preferences page, though.
I maintain my Bibtex database manually (using JabRef as a GUI).
In particular with conference proceedings, it's not possible to find everything that you need in one service, and if you copy & paste information from different services, your bibliography won't be internally consistent. And even if you copy Bibtex entries directly from the publisher's site (e.g., ACM and IEEE services mentioned in other answers), you will get a lot of garbage. Details such as accented characters in authors' names, math in titles, etc., are very often wrong.
MathSciNet is one of the very few sites that I actually trust so much that I usually copy & paste Bibtex entries almost verbatim. DBLP is useful but I nevertheless double-check the information that I get from it.
It's a lot of work initially, but as your Bibtex database grows, you will be able to reuse more and more entries in your new articles - especially as you don't need to check your bibliography again when you are preparing the final versions of your papers. Using Bibtex macros and/or cross-references helps a lot with the manual work.
DBLP has good BibTeX entries for much of computer science. Their coverage is not comprehensive, and they have some awkward gaps pre-2000, but it is one of my favourite sources.
Edit, five years later: DBLP is still a mainstay of my bibliography needs, and now covers 3 million papers, including nearly all papers in the bit of theoretical computer science I am interested in, as well as much of discrete mathematics. It now also includes citations for ECCC and arXiv papers (although these really should not be of type
If, through some peculiar combination of circumstances, you find yourself citing a Wikipedia article, the "cite this page" item under the "toolbox" in the left-hand sidebar provides BibTeX information. For example, to cite what is now the current version of the Isaac Newton article, one clicks "cite this page" and receives
@misc{ wiki:xxx, author = "Wikipedia", title = "Isaac Newton --- Wikipedia{,} The Free Encyclopedia", year = "2010", url = "\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Isaac_Newton&oldid=374986805}", note = "[Online; accessed 26-July-2010]" }
The URL in this block includes a reference to the specific version number, so even if the article is changed later, the version being referenced can be retrieved.
I use http://www.citeulike.org/ Briliant cite with loads of references and it is a bit of "social" referencing. You can create, import, export collections as bibtex and manage all of them online. It is pre-populated with loads of sources (I personally care only about IEEE which they pre-import via links.)
With this website the reference entry are by far the largest I saw including multiple web-view & purches links, full abstracts and customisable keys. Stopped writting bibtex files by-hand long time ago.
Another possibility is doi2bib.org which generates BibTeX citations from digital object identifiers (DOI), available for most (recent) publications.
A few people have already mentioned MathSciNet (and noted that it is subscription only). The same BibTeX data are freely available from the AMS via MRef.
The Spires database of high energy particle and astrophysics papers can display its results in Bibtex format.
They also have some tools to help update bibliography lists.
For computer science the Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies is very useful.
Slightly orthogonal to the actual question, but hopefully useful to anyone interested in the answers to it, there are libraries that convert from one format to another and these can often be more useful than finding a website that exports them in exactly the right format.
For example, for PHP then bibliophile has a library for converting to and from BibTeX. This is used by programs such as refbase for exporting references in BibTeX format.
Indeed, rather than a piecemeal approach, I would recommend using a reference program which can import and export to several formats (including BibTeX). Some have been mentioned in the answers above already.
I use BibSonomy to find and share Bibtex records. You may not find everything there, but with more and more users this should improve in time.
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet: Nelson Beebe maintains an extensive database of references for mathematics and computer science.
Unfortunately, the largest source of medical, biological and bioinformatical papers, PubMed, doesn't offer a BibTeX export (yet?).
As a workaround, there is the service TeXMed that transforms the numeric PubMed identifiers to BibTeX citations. It's not very usable but still it's better than nothing.
http://www.bibtexsearch.com/ offers a simple search interface to millions of BibTeX records.
Many scientific journals have readily available bibtex references available on their websites.
Here is a random one I found on ACM for instance: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1291536&jmp=cit&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=96100051&CFTOKEN=92185154#
Use this site:
to transform any pubmed paper into bibtex and other formats.
In my experience Jabref doesn't handle certain characters well, and there's always quite a bit of manual fixing involved when someone uses it to translate some other format to bib format. Endnote comes to mind.
Recently I found a website which gives bibtex by isbn numbers.
Qiqqa.com helps you quickly and semiautomatically associate bibtex with your PDFs. You can then export a .bib file of all your references for use with latex/bibtex.


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I love playing board games but often there's not many people around that share my passion. For that reason I'm looking for board games that can be played with just one player. I've discovered Arkham Horror few months ago and I think it's a fabulous game but I was wondering for some time now if there are other good board games that are as good or even better for single person?
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Agricola has a supported one player option. I find it doesn't have the same feel. It's more of a puzzle, but it is still very enjoyable.
You can look for games with single-player mode. There are few realy good games with this.
While not necessarily "board games" there are a few card games that have a nice solo option:
There are a couple fun ways to play Carcassonne with one player:
The recent Castle Ravenloft boardgame has a few scenarios for a single player that are quite fun to play.
Le Havre has an enjoyable one player experience.
The game involves managing many goods while buying up valuable businesses with an eventual goal of having a shipping empire.
Lord of the Rings is a cooperative game, but a friend of mine highly recommends playing it solitaire. I would guess that other cooperative games could be played this way, but it would depend on how much information was intended to be hidden from the other players.
Roll Through the Ages. This is a terrific civ game disguised as Yahtzee! It's a fun game in general, but I play it as a solitaire all the time on my iPhone. The app is a great deal at 5 or 6 dollars. In fact, I own only the digital version! But it's a great game in either form.
Arkham Horror supports single player play. However, it would probably be more fun to have someone else to co-miserate with!
I play many games (Settlers, Puerto Rico, Ticket to Ride) against the computer. Their strategies get old after a while, but it gives me some practice. Lots of the popular games are also online.
Even if the two games I first thought of are already mentioned in other answers:
Nearly every cooperative game is ideal for single play, because you can just play two or more players without having to make any rule changes. (The two that I play alone are Pandemic and Arkham Horror, both already mentioned.)
The only exception is of course when the game is cooperative, but every player has his own information and is not allowed to share it with others. I consider that rather strange for a cooperative game (and didn't like the idea), but I played one where this was the case, Witch of Salem.
I've had lots of fun with a few free print-and-play dice games. The rules and game boards can be printed out for free, though you'll need to provide your own dice (obviously). Here are a few good ones that I keep coming back to:
This dice game depicts the attack on Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944. You start with a few soldiers and a printout of the beach divided into sectors. Roll dice to recruit more soldiers, recruit specialists, gain courage (allowing you to advance), and so on. It's a lot of fun, and actually quite difficult to beat. I won the first game I played, and I haven't won since!
In this game, you play the role of the leader of a posse escorting an outlaw to his trial in Reno. By rolling dice, you gather food, mine for gold, move toward Reno, and fight any outlaws you encounter on the way. There's a lot to like about this game, and it plays in about 20 minutes. It's a game that falls into that "Just one more time!" category.
One nice thing about both of these games is that there are several different scenarios available, and new ones come out periodically. Just follow the links above to their respective pages on BoardGameGeek.com, and check out the "Files" sections for the rules and downloadable material.
P.S. - If you enjoy these games, it might be worth your while to laminate the player sheets. That way, you can use dry-erase markers and simply erase when you're done. No need to keep printing the game boards over and over again!
Word games would be great for this, especially Bananagrams and Boggle.
You can play against yourself to improve your fastest time in Bananagrams or your highest score in Boggle.
I think some great games have been named, but we should not forget (Peg) Solitaire, one of the best known games made specifically for just one player.
The Age of Steam expansion Barbados is a one-player map. The random cube distribution at the beginning makes it interesting to replay. Note that this map is included in the 3rd edition of Age of Steam.
I've played Scrabble often as just a single player.
All rules stay the same, but you're just looking to optimize every play for the most number of points (and I personally disallow myself to turn-in my tiles).
You could also optimize for always playing the longest possible word, or finishing your personal game in, say, 25 minutes.
Al Cabohne (a Bohnanza-spin-off) has a single player option. In that case you draw random cards for your opponents (the bean mafia). Works quite well in my opinion.
Other than that I know some riddle-games, there you solve crimes or similar things. You given some hints and place markers on the grid to represent encounters. That's more like a puzzle than a game though.
Blokus has several interesting single player puzzles listed in the rules if that's what you're looking for.
Finding a way for four players to all get all their pieces on the board is a pretty cool challenge of analysis and spatial calculations.
Not directly what you asked for, but:
If your problem is that there are no other people around in person who want to play board games, you could play with other people online.
I think the most known site for this is brettspielwelt.de. It's a German site, but you can switch the site language to English, there are lots of international players around and nearly everyone there speaks English.
Ricochet Robot is very cool and funny, if you like puzzles. It's "the game with which you shout numbers in your garden". You must find the shortest way from a place to another, using very dumb straight-going robots.
If you prefer strategy games, you have Vinci, which is the first version of Small World and has a single player version which is very good! I tried it, the player doesn't win every time! The idea is: you play with "automatic players", that can be compared to AI in video games. They obey very basic rules and the player doesn't decide for them what to play, it's impressive how it works well! Maybe the game can't be found nowadays, though, but you can still get a Small World and play with this special single player rule from its ancestor, the two games are exactly the same.
It's very easy to play alone at Once Upon a Time, in which you must create a fairy tale. If you do, use a microphone to keep a track of your masterpiece! Maybe Disney will make a movie out of it someday.
As other mentionned, cooperative games are good as well! My preference goes to Forbidden Island, playable in less than an hour.
Elder Sign is closely related, obviously, and can be played normally with one player. It would be better to play as least two investigators (three if you feel like it), as one investigator tends to end in either certain doom or boring steamrolling. (It's also quite cheap and very, very compact compared to Arkham Horror.)
A dice game similar to the ones suggested by Matt Dillard is Booty for Booty. You are in command of an unruly pirate crew and have to sail from place to place trying to collect booty. It has nice, whimsical humor and plenty of odd events which can happen to your ship.
Another idea would be to take an existing game and set up an AI algorithm (I've done this myself with several Dvorak decks, and also the game of Hearts; just think of how you play and apply it to the opponents.) This option can amount to playing against yourself, though, and if you don't set up the algorithm well enough, you will find the AI making horrible moves. Sometimes I actually do both good and poor algorithms, since playing with both intelligent and unintelligent opponents livens things up.


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I am sorry to inform everyone that the English dancer Leo Kersley recently passed away aged 92.
Leo was a pupil of Idzikovski and Marie Rambert whose company he danced with and later joined the Sadler's Wells Ballet and later again, was with The Anglo-Polish Ballet but soon returned to the Sadler's Wells Ballet from 1946-1951.
Among his roles with the Sadler's Well's company was in the pas de trios from Swan Lake with Anne Heaton and Nadia Nerina having a great admiration and friendship with the latter. Leo was at one time married to Celia Franca founder of the National Ballet of Canada.
I knew Leo and his family from the 1960's and I organised the journey for us all to go to the 1968 Varna Ballet Competition when Galina Panova was awarded the Gold Medal.
He had a Ballet School in Harlow, Essex with his wife Janet, where he staged ballet performances and I well remember him reviving Andree Howard's "Death and the Maiden" (Andante Cantabile from Schubert's String Quartet in D Minor) ballet which was first produced by Ballet Rambert at the Duchess Theatre London in 1927 and was revived by ABT at "The Premiere" New York in 1940.
Together with his wife Janet Sinclair in 1952, they co-authored. "A Dictionary of Ballet Terms." Janet pre-deceased him. He is survived by his children Alexandra and John.
Leo was a kind and goodly man known to all the regulars at the Royal Opera House where he frequently attended performances into the 1980's.
I last met him at the British Film Institute where he regaled a group of his long term friends, with memories of the ballet dancers we were about to see on archive film.
There is a rather fond interview with Leo at, http://www.bl.uk/projects/theatrearchive/kersley.html
Leo is referred to in the current Ballet Alert posts on "Retirement."
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Thank you so much for the remembrance, leonid.
Rest in peace, Mr. Kersley.
Rest in peace, Mr. Kersley.
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I was reading the Mac OS X Lion upgrade page, and it said "make sure" all over the place. It struck me as odd. Where does the term "make sure" come from? What are you making to be sure? Yourself? Shouldn't the expression be, more verbose, but more accurately, "make yourself sure", or something similar?
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"Make sure" here is a command means "Be sure" or "Be certain" or in a single word "Ensure".
It does not mean "make yourself sure" but "be certain that". But you can easily replace "Make sure" in your link with "Ensure" and all of it means the same.
Interestingly the origin of ensure is attributed to "make sure".
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A little more digging gives the Latin word
So it has quite an old history in the form "make sure" derived from a single Latin word
"Sure" means "certain", and is interchangeable. Although idiomatically "sure" is more often used to refer to a state of mind, it doesn't have to be.
You are both making it certain that Tab A is in Slot B and also making yourself certain that Tab A is in Slot B. Presumably if you have done the latter you have also done the former, so it isn't necessary to distinguish between them.


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Let $C$ be the category of finite-dimensional vector spaces over some field. It is easy to construct pairs of endofunctors $F, G$ of $C$, of the same variance, such that $F(V)$ and $G(V)$ have the same dimension for every $V \in C$, yet are not naturally isomorphic.
For example, we could take $G(V) := (V^*)^{\otimes 2}$, and $F(V) := (V^{\otimes 2})^*$, where $*$ denotes the dual. Or, I'm sure many of us have, at some time, tried showing that $(\Lambda V)^* \simeq \Lambda(V^*)$ canonically, before realizing that it is false. A convincing reason why they are not canonically isomorphic is that there is no obvious reason, in terms of universal properties, why they should be. In other words: if you try proving that $(\Lambda V)^* \simeq \Lambda(V^*)$ canonically, you're going to have a bad time.
However, how does one explicitly show that $F$ and $G$ are not isomorphic? Is there a slick, systematic way of doing this?
Edit: Well, my examples couldn't be worse, as Mariano points out. But the gist of my question still stands (perhaps just get rid of the finite-dimensionality assumption ;))