http://www.cnet.com/news/success-atari- ... xico-dump/

I know at least one person who thought this was an urban myth...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Is anyone considering playing this MMO? Link is at http://www.wildstar-online.com. I've been looking into it since early development, and it sounds fun.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

I finally got around to hitting the Questionable Content archive, and reached this one:



Why does everyone hate on Kennedy? I really liked her at the time, enough to watch her MTV show despite the actual music involved.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

While digging around the web, I cam across the following

http://punynari.wordpress.com/2010/05/2 ... ality-map/
http://punynari.wordpress.com/2010/05/1 ... ge-part-1/
http://en.gigazine.net/news/20090605_eva_legwork01/
http://en.gigazine.net/news/20090605_eva_legwork02/
http://seichi-junrei.com/album/album.cg ... &area_id=1

It's interesting, because many of the locations in the anime were inspired by actual locations in and around Lake Ashi and Hakone. Most of Tokyo-3 is a golf course, but some thing stand through. Some places are specifically recogniseable, including Shrines, train stations, convenience stores and the like - many of which are recogniseable in real life. Along with some interesting legends and details.

Unfortunately, the Megaupload link on one of the blogs was killed by the FBI....
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

http://www.biographile.com/memoir-in-a- ... way/31024/

The true story behind the gate song from DWII. Which is kind of weird-tastic.Brazil has decided you're cute.

At this blog:
The Blog. "Why Poor People Buy Nice Things"
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

; Heinlein gave us Future History, but Isaac Asimov invented Big Data!  The  Psychohistory of the Foundation series utilizes, "the assumption that the human conglomerate being dealt with is sufficiently large for valid statistical treatment." (Foundation. P-19) That's right, kids! Asimov makes statistics a  cool all galaxy spanning superpower! How's that for Geek chic? We don't need Jedi : we have Statisticians to save galactic civilization! 

It would be inappropriate for me (a Canadian) to sign any petition on whitehouse.gov, but that doesn't mean I can't point them out to people who can sign them. Here's one I think is worthy - please at least tell others about it even if you don't sign it.

http://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petiti ... m/XMjbTltM
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Is Denmark big enough? Because http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2014 ... _11_scale/]the Danes have digitized the entire country, and it's downloadable until October 23.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012