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eftychia at 08:50am on 2004-01-30
eftychia at 08:50am on 2004-01-30- Far more about clowns than I ever thought I wanted to know -- not that it's not more than I want to know, but it's more than I ever knew there was to know. Now I want to know more.
- "NEVER make someone who just had major CHEST surgery LAUGH!"
- Lord of the Rings portrayed as a role-playing campaign ("It's the last game before summer break. Boromir's player lives out of state and will be gone for the summer; the rest are taking classes and no more than three can make a game on the same night. The GM mulls the situation over for a bit, then pulls Boromir's player aside. 'Hey, remember that d20 roll a few weeks ago? How'd you like to go out memorably?'")
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Why Superman doesn't need a mask (thanks to
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theferrett
for pointing it out). Some police officers did an experiment... -
Baby dragon photograph (thanks to thespian for this
one).
- Gondor Accepted into United Nations: "Although it claims a history thousands of years old, this marks the first time it has been officially recognized as a sovereign nation." And, "They really want a more effective peacekeeping force [...] Gondor may be small, but one thing it does have is a crack military. Their equipment may not be as advanced as the Americans, but there's no denying they get the job done."
- Flowers that detect land mines: "Reuters reports that the Danish company Aresa Biodetection has developed genetically-modified flowers which change color when their roots come in contact with Nitrogen Dioxide in the soil. Explosives used in mines produce NO2 as the chemicals gradually decay."
- A bunch of American sheet music from 1780 to 1922, scanned and
made available on the web: the
Lester S. Levy
Collection. (The collection extends to 1960, but only the
tunes whose copyrights have expired are online.) Thanks to
misia for
pointing it out.
- A dramatic seasonal photo ... it's going to take forever to scrape those windshields.
- And finally, thanks to Fred, a belly-dancing robot: "The strange invention has also provided some lessons for biologists, revealing that the CPG of a fish can drive human-like movements."
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(but since when is a Rabbit convertible a "luxury car"?)
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Docu-drama. I like that choice of words.
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What I want to know is who gets to try to plant those mine-detecting flowers in places full enough of land mines to need them. They'd have to be able to sprout from mere seed-scatter methods, and one would need a sort of seed-scattering gun, and someone to check the road, so it would be possible to stand someplace known to be safe, and sow the seeds somewhere unknown? Or from a helicopter? Do they just get sown everywhere there_might_be a war? How will they affect the local balance of flora? I hate articles that give more questions than answers. Oh well.
And Interrobang has me reconsidering the contest.
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Speaking of which....I'd just like to point out that women are meat....just occurred to me and I thought you'd like to consider it given your interest in the contest and all ;-)
I guess this means that only your stomach and parts south are vegetarian, hm?