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“This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”

Speaking before the Knesset, Bush said that “some people” believe the United States “should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."

"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

Democrats have interpreted the comments as an attack on Sen. Barack Obama, and Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that the president was out of line.

“He is the guy who has weakened us,” he said. “He has increased the number of terrorists in the world. It is his policies that have produced this vulnerability that the U.S. has. It’s his [own] intelligence community [that] has pointed this out, not me.”

Tonight, I was working out the math for generating a spherical world/board that could scale up in size to accommodate more players. After a bit of sketching in Rhino, this is where it's at:

def lats(n):
print '0 0' #equator

lats={}
for x in range(1, 2**n):
print x,x*90.0/(2**n)
lats[x]=x*90.0/(2**n)
lats[(2**n)]=90.0 #poles

return lats

def longs(n):
longs = {}
for x in range(1,(2**n)):
#for p in ['E','W']:
#print x,x*180.0/(2**n),p
longs[x]=x*180.0/(2**n)

#hm.. this makes doubling the longs a pita?
longs[0]=0.0
longs[len(longs)]=180.0
return longs

"""
So a planet of order n=2:
has 3 lat lines in each hemisphere.

counting them in order from the equator,
lat #3 should have rooms at longs(2)
lat #2 & #1 @ longs(3)

(to step down away from the poles!)

so, planet of order n=3 has 7 lat lines
pole(lat8) @ longs(1)
lat#7 @ longs(2)
#6 @ longs(3)
#5 @ longs(4)
#4,#3,#2,#1 @ longs(5)

"""

def rooms(n):
lattys = lats(n)
i=0
for x in lattys:
if i<n:
i += 1
#print 'Lats:',lattys[x],'Longs:',longs(i)
longys = longs(i)
for y in longys:
print lattys[x],longys[y]
print i

Next up is working out the algorithm to create the exits!