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MeFi post:
Fungi are weird
Which can't help but evoke images of mold covered continents post nuclear exchange. Yikes.
I've seen this movie.
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at 12:37 PM on July 25, 2008
MeFi post:
"It was beautiful, kind of like abstract art"
Entropy is in the eye of the beholder, though. The message:
gggggggggggggggggggggggg
might be entirely meaningful, once you understood that it is not a cipher, but a code: g24, that the codebook says is "WE ATTACK AT DAWN".
Similarly, although entropy analysis of the Voynich Manuscript suggests that it is too structured to be a cipher, there are other ways that it could be hiding information. For example, a... [more]
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at 12:41 PM on July 16, 2008
MeFi post:
NRD of 19
The Player's Handbook may be rather dry reading (the "lexical vagueness" that JHarris refers to), but it serves an important purpose: it separates the core mechanics of the game, specifically the skill check and combat systems, from any setting-specific material. A "ranger" may be defined as a Martial Striker, but in your campaign this "ranger" may actually less like Aragorn and more like Iron Monkey. This is something that... [more]
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at 12:12 PM on June 25, 2008
MeFi post:
Gaza: The Killing Zone
Sure, they could bomb stuff but they were unable to hold any ground or accomplish anything beyond killing a lot of civilians.
So they've achieved parity with the US in Iraq, then?
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at 12:45 PM on June 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Your quest awaits!
I was a complete ace on Dragon's Lair. For that matter, I was an ace on Space Ace as well ("Help! I've been hit!" "By the Infanto-Ray!" "Help Dexter regain his manhood!") Once you knew the moves, you could practically play it by reflex. But I spent more than a few dollars getting to that point.
I still have original cels of Daphne and Kimberly.
Regarding Don Bluth Studios, their best film was The Secret of NIMH,... [more]
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at 9:59 PM on June 20, 2008
MeFi post:
The most important thing you know
The attributes of an object (mass, charge, spin, etc) can only be determined through interaction with another object. This fact has both scientific and philosophical significance.
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at 12:11 PM on June 19, 2008
MeFi post:
Good night, Stan
A favorite Stan Winston moment in The Relic: the cthugha is literally a B-movie monster on steroids, an amalgam of lion, salamander, rhinoceros beetle, you name it, galumphing after everyone with a brainstem.
This hugely massive beast is chasing our heroine every which way in the basement of a museum. Cleverly, she lures into into one area where she douses it with flammable chemicals and sets it ablaze.
Good plan! Now she's... [more]
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at 12:35 PM on June 16, 2008
MeFi post:
Career Objective: Fail
My favorite resume:
"Prior experience: orientation manager at refugee camp.
Reason for leaving previous employer: escaped to Thailand."
We hired the guy.
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at 7:23 PM on June 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Be afraid
Great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl.
*shudders*
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at 1:04 PM on June 2, 2008
MeFi post:
You look familiar.
Double.
Kidding! Great post. If you read Fortean Times on a regular basis, you find that stuff like this happens a lot more often than you'd imagine.
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at 12:46 PM on June 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Doc Savage, whose real name is Clark Savage, Jr., is a physician, surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer, researcher, and musician
I like to recommend King Joe Cay, a Doc Savage novel very different from the early, campy works. In it, Doc goes undercover (!) to infiltrate a criminal gang. None of the Fab Five are present, none of the dopey gadgets. Just the World's Smartest Man working his way up the criminal food chain. It's most interesting because it makes Clark Savage, Jr seem believable: resourceful, clever and full of self-deprecating good humor.
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at 12:44 PM on May 27, 2008
MeFi post:
How to talk to the dead
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
--- Henry the Fourth
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at 2:40 PM on May 11, 2008
MeFi post:
Emotional twitter ticker
This is why I'm glad I don't have telepathy: the incessant noise from an endless stream of twitterati observing the insignificant aspects of their ordinary lives would drive any sane soul mad.
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at 12:53 PM on May 5, 2008
Has anybody tried to use Twitter as fiction?
Joyce's Ulysses?
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at 4:36 PM on May 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Hmmmm...
If you have plum trees, hummingbirds are like locusts. Fly away, little hummingbird, fly!
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at 10:07 AM on May 4, 2008
MeFi post:
Boris is GEIL
"If Boris Johnson gets elected it would be a case of the lunatic having no clue how to run the asylum. Good luck to Ken, good luck to all of us." --- Alan Rickman
I enjoy imagining Alan saying this in his Hans Gruber/Severus Snape voice.
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at 7:47 PM on May 2, 2008
MeFi post:
"Big Bird says it's time to wake up..."
So what about pangolins? Sure, they're mammals. But they already bear a more-than-passing resemblance to a stegosaur. If I come back in a few million years, will pangolins develop full feathers and fly? (And, considering their skunk-like behavior, would this be desirable?)
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at 4:36 PM on April 24, 2008
MeFi post:
Studying Really Pays Off!
Maybe the answer to the problem above is that you only provide this program in a school full of mostly underachieving, lower class kids.
Perhaps Dilbert has conditioned me into a certain way of thinking, but on reading this, my first thought was: if you're paying me to be an underachiever, what is my incentive to improve? If I'm an overachiever, what message are you sending me by not rewarding my efforts? And... [more]
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at 4:29 PM on April 22, 2008
MeFi post:
Ice Ice Baby
Somebody listened to TAL yesterday.
posted by spock at 7:14 AM on April 21 [+] [!]
"Welcome to the Head Museum! I'm Leonard Nimoy."
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at 12:59 PM on April 21, 2008
