Stories by Williams

A Tribute to Alan Turing

by storiesbywilliams on June 23, 2012 in Books, News, Series and tagged ACE (Automatic Computing Engine), alan turing, Alan Turing Bridge, Alan Turing Way, battle of the atlantic, bletchley park, Breaking the Code, Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, cryptanalysis, cryptography, Cryptonomicon, enigma code, enigma machine, galileo, Government Code and Cypher School (GCCS), ICONS: The Lesbian and Gay History of the World, National Physical Laboratory, oppenheimer, socrates, Tupac Shakur, turing machine, turing test, u-boats, world war II

Wouldn’t you know it? Today marks what would have been Alan Turing’s 100th birthday. This man was not only immensely influential in the development of computer science and cryptanalysis, he is also considered the father of Artificial Intelligence. In fact, words like “algorithm” and “computation” are traced to him, as was the development of the […]

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2012: the Year of Reboots

by storiesbywilliams on June 21, 2012 in Movies, Video and tagged 2012 relaunches, avengers 2, cersei lannister, game of thrones, jessica biel, judge dredd, karl urban, kate beckinsale, kirsten dunst, lena headey, movie relaunches, prometheus, spider-man, spidey, sylvester stallone, the amazing spider-man, the avengers, toby mcguire, Total Recall

If you’ve been paying attention to the trailer circuit lately, you might have noticed some new previews making the rounds. A few weeks ago, it was the trailer for the reboot of Spider-Man, this time with the prefix “The Amazing”. Shortly thereafter, a new trailer came out previewing the relaunch of the 1990 movie Total […]

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Alien Versus Predator (2010 game)

by storiesbywilliams on June 21, 2012 in Movies, Reviews, Video games and tagged alien versus predator, alien versus predator 2010 game, android, AvP, bishop, cheyenne dropship, combi-stick, dropships, Hunters, plasma casters, predator claws, predator disc, prometheus, pulse rifles, smartguns, space marines, Weyland Yutani, xenomorph

Welcome all to my first video game review! It took me awhile to figure out which I’d start with, but after some thought, I figured AVP – the 2010 game – would be as good a place as any. And given the recent release of Prometheus, I thought it would also be appropriate, not the […]

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Taken 2 Announced!

by storiesbywilliams on June 21, 2012 in News, Video

My thanks to Jamie Hall of That Fantasy Blog for bringing this to my attention! It seems that Taken 2 has got its funding and is coming to theaters in the near future. If you’re like me, or my wife, then chances are you loved the movie Taken with a passion! I mean how badass […]

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The Hunger Games, a review (finally!)

by storiesbywilliams on June 21, 2012 in Books, Reviews and tagged appalachia, archery, Caesar Flickerman, cato, district 12, district 13, dystopian, dystopian science fiction, foxface, gale, grooseling, haymich abernathy, katniss everdeen, mockingjay, muttations, panem, peeta mellark, prim, primrose everdeen, rue, star-crossed lovers, the capitol, the hunger games, tributes, YA fiction, young-adult fiction

It finally happened, I read the Hunger Games. Not that this should come as much of a surprise, I did promise I would after all. But it took me quite a while! Months back when I was doing a review of Dystopian Science Fiction – which earned me most of my current followers, thank you! […]

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The Zombie Killing Bullet!

by storiesbywilliams on June 20, 2012 in Cool Stuff, News, Series and tagged bath salt zombies, bath salts, the walking dead, z-max bullet, zombie apocalypse, zombie killing bullet, zombie max bullets, zombies

Just when I thought this Zombie craze was ebbing, it seems an ammunition manufacturer has gone and developed a bullet specifically designed for killing zombies. The company’s name is Hornady Manufacturing Co. and the product is known as the Z-Max. Apparently, the bullet line was inspired by Mr. Hornady’s passion for zombie films, so the […]

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The Summer of “At Long Last!”

by storiesbywilliams on June 20, 2012 in Movies, News, Series, Video and tagged batman, bender, bender squared, comedy central, family guy, fox network, futurama, matt groening, prometheus, the dark knight rises, True Blood

It seems like the summer of 2012 is just loaded with anticipatory events. I say this because after many months of waiting, repeats and teaser trailers, favorite shows and much anticipated movies seem to be coming out all at once. Strange, wasn’t this the year the world was supposed to end? It would seem in […]

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Of Exoskeletons

by storiesbywilliams on June 20, 2012 in Cool Stuff and tagged argo medical technologies, cyberdine, dr. brewster's armor, exoskeletons, future G.I., future soldier, HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb), HULC (Human Universal Load Carrier), iron man, lockheed martin, machinegunner, ned kelly gang, police wheeled shield, powered exoskeleton, rewalk, the kelly gang, trench warfare

Hey all. A few days ago, I read an interesting article from Io9 that spoke of historic examples of what might be termed exoskeletons. Naturally, it got me thinking about the emerging technology of powered exoskeletons. I’ve been beating around that bush for months now and figured it was high time I just jumped into […]

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I Would Like to Thank the Academy…

by storiesbywilliams on June 19, 2012 in News and tagged blogger award, blogging, caracaleo, i would like to thank the academy, news, nominated for an award, website

Well, not so much the Academy, what have they done for me lately? Really, the person I need to thank is the one who nominated me for not one, but two awards: Maryam, aka. Caracaleo. Apparently, I’m doing something right in her eyes, otherwise I doubt she’d have given me the nod here. Or to […]

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New Trailers for Spider-Man

by storiesbywilliams on June 19, 2012 in Movies, News, Video and tagged peter parker, spider-man, spider-man movie trailers, spider-man reboot, the amazing spider-man

Columbia Pictures, in collaboration with Wal-Mart, has been making a major push to promote the soon-to-be-released Spider-Man reboot. I have to admit, I don’t really see the point in this movie. I mean, didn’t we just do a Spider-Man movie trilogy? Wasn’t it hailed as a prime example of movie making and a faithful adaptation? […]

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