David Morgan-Mar

David Morgan-Mar (aka DangerMouse) is an Australian physicist best known online for his webcomics, and for creating several humorous esoteric programming languages. He is also the author of several GURPS roleplaying sourcebooks for Steve Jackson Games, as well as a regular contributor to Pyramid magazine.
Morgan-Mar is a Ph.D. graduate from the University of Sydney, Australia, and works on camera, lens, and image processing projects at Canon.
Esoterica
Morgan-Mar has created a number of esoteric programming languages (including Chef and Piet) and algorithms. Some of them are full Turing-complete languages while others are simple jokes, often based upon the idea of how a given group (e.g., chefs, orangutans, or necromancers) would be expected to program.
It is a mark of Morgan-Mar's humor that his algorithms often reflect the practices of or misconceptions about the computing industry, for instance "LenPEG", an image-compression algorithm, is designed such that if it is given the standard Lenna image it produces an output file of 1 byte, otherwise implementing a standard JPEG, GIF or PNG compression, therefore beating these in benchmark tests. His intelligent sort algorithm (a parody of intelligent design), which suggests that any sufficiently complicated list is already sorted according to the whims of a sorter implying any further sorting is unnecessary, was referenced in the "Feedback" section of New Scientist.
Comics
Morgan-Mar is known for his webcomics: ', Infinity on 30 Credits a Day, Darths & Droids, Square Root of Minus Garfield and mezzacotta.
===Irregular Webcomic!===
Established at the end of 2002 and running until late in 2011, Irregular Webcomic! was a photo-comic that consisted mostly of photographs of Lego charactes Darths & Droids takes place in a universe where Star Wars was never created. The concepts of Star Wars are thus largely unknown to the characters, with concepts such as lightsabers' deflection abilities, midichlorians, the Gungan race and Anakin as either made up by the players themselves or hastily invented by the Game Master after the players go off his prepared plot line.
The game started out with only Ben (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Jim (Qui-Gon Jinn), and the game master (who plays the NPCs). Later Sally, Ben's sister, joined them, initially playing Jar Jar Binks, then a variety of minor roles, before switching to play Mace Windu and then Yoda and C-3PO. Jim's friend Pete joined in Episode 46 as R2-D2. The newest player, Annie, who is in Ben's drama class, was introduced in episode 70 and initially played Shmi, but later switched to Anakin Skywalker (and Jim switched to Padmé Amidala). Pete and Annie are notably polar opposites: while Pete is obsessed with points and stats, Annie is far more interested in the roleplaying aspect. The comic has so far covered the episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 and is currently at Episode 5. Morgan-Mar and the rest of the team behind this web-comic plan to go through all the movies, including the soon-be-made sequel trilogy.

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