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Category Archives: Experiments
October 2016: Retro Incredible Morphing Chameleon Thread
Since the responses on the Random thread seemed positive, I decided to reboot these threads. Shiny new rule: No nesties! The conversation will meander from topic to topic anyhow. Also, it adds to the retro vibe. The last October Incredible Morphing Chameleon … Continue reading
Project Tracking
Hello MB! Oxlin here. I was watching some Nerdfighter videos on the internet, which made me think how it is really cool that the Green brothers have all these projects, tangible things they have created. I would like to make … Continue reading
April Fools’ Day Planning Thread
As you know, MuseBlog likes to do something special to celebrate April 1. Last year, we Administrators have been crunched for time, so we reopened the popular SquidBlog. That’s what we’re planning to do again this year unless enterprising MBers … Continue reading
Posted in Experiments, Fan Page / MuseBlog business
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Animation Project
So, who is involved? KaiYVes, Agent Lightning, Randomosity, fireh, Catwings, ibcf — anyone else?
Posted in Experiments, Nonrandom Craziness, Sound and images
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Chess: Robert vs. Everybody, Again — With a Twist: 1/2-1/2
As before, Robert takes on the world (or at least the world of logged-in MuseBloggers). The twist is that he will keep all of his pieces on “his” side of the board, the first four rows, unless forced across because … Continue reading
Posted in Chess, Experiments, Games completed
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Chess: Everybody vs. Robert, 0-1
Ever get the feeling that the whole world was against you? That’s the idea behind this chess game. In a desperate ploy scientific experiment designed to see whether it’s possible to keep a game here moving forward to a conclusion, … Continue reading
Posted in Chess, Experiments, Games completed
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Anatomy of a Random Thread Graphic
The other day Castle made the mistake of asking inquired about the construction of the Uranuary Random Thread graphic. Since I couldn’t think of a short answer and because everyone else runs and hides when I talk about this stuff … Continue reading
Chess: MuseBlog vs. MuseBlog, Game 2, 1-0
Game 1 is over. Guess what: MuseBlog won. Congratulations, MuseBlog! Also, condolences, MuseBlog. Better luck next time. So here we go again. As before, anybody can make a move at any time. You don’t have to restrict yourself to playing … Continue reading
Posted in Chess, Experiments, Games completed, The Universe
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Chess: MuseBlog vs. MuseBlog, 1-0
Just for fun, we’re posting a game in which anybody can make a move at any time. You don’t have to restrict yourself to playing one color, but please don’t make more than one move in a row. The game … Continue reading
Posted in Chess, Experiments, Games completed, The Universe
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I Saved Alternate-History Threads
As KaiYves describes it, this started with an idea for a story called “I Saved the Titanic.” Then she thought “I Saved Pompeii,” “I Saved Apollo 1,” and several other things worth saving. Then she thought, “Why not make this … Continue reading
Posted in Experiments, Nonrandom Craziness
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MuseBlog Music Project
Proposed in the Suggestion Box, v. 2010.2.
Posted in Experiments, Nonrandom Craziness, Sound and images
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“The Embi Family” (Round-Robin Scripting) – Part 1
This group project started on the “Partial Scripts” thread and quickly became popular enough to warrant a thread of its own.
Attention, iPhone (et al.) Users!
We’ve just installed a plug-in that’s supposed to make the blog look and behave better on iPhones and other small-screen devices. The documentation says you can toggle between the new and old formats. We have no idea what it looks … Continue reading
Posted in Experiments, Fan Page / MuseBlog business
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Stop Making Sense
In keeping with our theme of tomfoolery, this thread is reserved for pure randomness, pointless posts, and non sequiturs. Any attempt to have a reasonable, intelligent conversation on this thread will be zapped. Moose.
Posted in Experiments, Random craziness
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Into the Unknown!
As you may have noticed in the sidebar, the Administrators can now create links that fling you randomly to who-knows-which threads on the blog. Sound like fun? Try it by clicking here, and then come back and report where you … Continue reading
Chess Lesson 3 — with Lady Bunniful
GAPA Rebecca has decided to avail herself of Robert’s chess lessons. She’s not a super-confident chessplayer,* so any MBer is welcome to help her by suggesting moves and strategies. *More precisely: complete neophyte. ~L.B.
Posted in Chess, Experiments
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Chess Lesson 2 — with Tesseract
Robert is going crazy with this chess software. Tesseract, Lovely Lunegood, Adeia, Pseudonym, SudoRandom, and mas0n have all expressed interest in a lesson, in approximately that order. Tesseract — ready to roll? (Note: “Lesson” games are played in public. … Continue reading
Posted in Chess, Experiments
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Chess Lesson, with bookgirl_me
Robert has an idea for a new way to use the chess software: He’ll play a game with one MBer (at a time), trying to create interesting positions for his opponent to exploit. He’ll make comments on the action as … Continue reading
Posted in Chess, Experiments
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Six-Word Stories
Ernest Hemingway wrote is supposed to have written a very sad one: For sale: Baby shoes, never used worn. What can you come up with? (We’ll also accept summaries, reviews, biographies — anything you can squeeze into this even-shorter-than-haiku format.)
New MuseBlog Experiment
Always looking for ways to improve our beloved blog, the Administrators have decided to try something new: We’re pulling the under-used Muse Academy Student Lounge off the main body of the blog. It will still be accessible to anyone who … Continue reading
Quotations, 2009.2 Atheism
Continued from Quotations, 2009.1. Anyone who doesn’t want to argue about the existence or nonexistence of God had better go to Quotations 2009.3. Reminder: As is the case with all threads dealing with potentially contentious subject matter, this is a … Continue reading
Posted in Experiments, Life, Nonrandom Craziness
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Capablanca Chess: POSOC vs. bookgirl_me — 0-1
Posted in Chess, Experiments, Games completed
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Weird Chess Experiments
One nice thing about this new chess software is that it can handle non-standard layouts like these:
Posted in Chess, Experiments
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New Way to Play Chess on the Blog
We’ve found some software that lets you enter moves with your mouse, directly on the board. Just click on the piece you want to move, and then on the square to which you want to move it. Easy, no? Try … Continue reading
Posted in Chess, Experiments
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