1) I have seen a report that desktopnexus . com is hosting images made by people who are not the people who uploaded the images. I also understand that they claim copyright of images posted to their site. One might want to check that site to find out whether any of one's artwork has been posted there without permission, and go straight to the DMCA notices if it has.

2) Here's a useful site - you can provide an image or the URL of an image, and it'll go find other copies of the image on the web. Apparently, resizings and watermarkings don't fool this search engine. If you have an image and you want to know where it came from (or where it's been copied to), or who to pay for the rights to use it, this site will make the search easier.
http://www.tineye.com/
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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

My search-fu is failing me - I know we discussed the "United Belt Alliance" here in the past, but I can't find any references to it now. Nor can I find any references to a "Belt Alliance". All the hits for "Alliance" on its own lead to the Warsies.

Judging from the FenWiki pages that link to this non-existent-on-the-wiki topic (125 Liberatrix, Knight Sabers, Greenwood Technical Institute, and For Tailed Ones), I'm guessing this might be something our mercs, furries, or both came up with.

Where should I be looking for "United Belt Alliance" data to put on the FenWiki?
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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

The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2014 ... elativity/]Two white dwarfs and superdense star. Yup, IDEAL for gravity lab in the sky - boffins

TL;DR: Observing this system won't reconcile General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, but it will let us know which theory needs revising.
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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

Spotted in http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php? ... stcount=18]this post on the SJ Games forums, as a comment on a discussion between two published Traveller writers:

Hans Rancke-Madsen Wrote:... I'm not a fanatic. A change that is a vast improvement can be justified. But a small improvement? No. Even though it belongs to a single person, the Traveller universe is a shared creation, and in a shared creation you shouldn't change things around just because you like your own version better. ...

I have a large cache of old files in the early Pagis XIF format. Unfortunately there isn't much that can view or do anything with these right now... there's a viewer that will only work up through WinXP, and the actual main software only works through Windows 2000 or so. If anyone has a copy of the Pagis software that they can provide me, or some other means of converting these into usable files that I can print without needing to load them one at a time in the viewer on a XP virtual machine... I'd appreciate it.
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

Sky and Telescope: "http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/Sma ... 81431.html]Small Asteroid 2014 AA Hits Earth"

TL;DR: An asteroid discovered 01:16 UTC 1 January 2014 hit the Earth at ~02:30 UTC 2 January 2014. Luckily, it was smaller than the one over Chelyabinsk.

Of course, this won't increase funding for near-Earth asteroid detection. It didn't do any appreciable damage, after all...
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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

Article here.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

Northeastern USA, that is.
Here in central NJ, the snow is between 2.5 and 2.9 inches, and it's been falling since about 5 PM -- call it 6 hours.  There's been no sign of the forecast heavy winds yet.  Total accumulation predicted is 5 to 8 inches.
How's it going for everyone else in the area of effect?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

If you've been paying attention, you will note that the "chapter progress" note at the top of the forums now lists chapters 3 and 4 of DW8, with a total size slightly larger than the size chapter 3 used to have.  Yes, that means I've split the chapter and I'm readying the new chapter 3 for release.  It won't be immediate, though -- I still need to pass it by my prereaders.  Still, you can think of it as a belated holiday gift...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

The time has finally come for me to create an image of Noah Scott for the FenWiki. (Why now, rather than a year or two ago? It's taken this long for somebody to create his Season 2 corporate-state-leader private office - specifically, http://www.sharecg.com/v/73962/view/11/Poser/The-Office]rduda's new model.)

But I have a problem. Noah started as a sort-of self-insert, but rather quickly grew away from that concept and became the capitalist that everybody loves to hate. And I've since done an actual self-insert into the Convention Authority, and nobody comments on any resemblance between Rob Donaldson and Noah Scott. Thus, I no longer have any idea as to my lead character's appearance, other than "tall overweight white guy who wears glasses."

So I'm opening this up to the hivemind: What does Noah look like?

If you're going to answer, please don't read anyone else's answers before you post your own.

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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