Has anyone else seen http://www.filmdrunk.com/post.phtml?pk=1197]the trailer for this film yet? It looks to be amazing...
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

According to this article on DailyTech, Microsoft labled a
lot of severely underpowered computers as being 'Vista Capable.' Sure, this isn't really a big deal. The computers can run Vista, just not at all
like how a real computer can. Nah, the trouble is (and this is what the people in the comments thread keep on missing, dammit) that the prices of these
machines were jacked up. To quote one Microsoft employee who himself got suckered into the scheme, "I PERSONALLY got burnt ... Are we seeing this from a lot of customers? ... I now have a $2,100 e-mail
machine."

Half-Life: Real Life
Consequences

Made of LOL WIN!!!!

Here we go for the fourth time. This time i'm on a Buffy kick, and I've been having rather poor luck at finding anything engrossing to read, and given
the success of my previous Sailor Moon, Dragonball and Tenchi Muyo fic searchs, and given the the huge variety of experience and depth of knowledge of the
subject of fanfiction here (and buffy mentions aplenty), I was hoping for some more suggestions? What in your opinion are the best Buffyverse stories out
there?

Blame Rob for this, because I know I do. A very rough first pass, stealing the organizational structure of the article from Wikipedia's USAF article. More holes than filling at this point, so if you see something demanding your attention don't be shy about it.

I'm thinking that the image I added to Haruhi's character writeup just isn't right for the commander of Operation Great Justice. I've screencaped a few more appropriate ones... but I'm having trouble deciding which one best captures her personality.

Anybody have a preference between these?

Image 1:


Image 2:


Image 3:


(I'm leaning towards #2, myself, but I'm sure that's Noah talking to me...)

 
--
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

I'm not interested myself, but I figured some folks here might be...

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.htm ... EOSL-12604]Kochokore / Maho Shojo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS Box preorder page. There's no guarantee they'll still be available on the release date - if you want them, order a box quickly...

 
--
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

I'm cleaning up the Wiki page for the Main Belt, and have noticed two things:

1) We don't have anything on 10 Hygiea, 511 Davida, or 704 Interamnia, the fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-most-massive asteroids in the Belt, respectively.

2) We don't have an official location for Hogwarts.

Were we pretending Hogwarts' location was a "secret"? (I don't recall either way. I do recall we were pretending the Ninja home base was a Hidden Asteroid...) If not, does anybody mind if we put Hogwarts on 10 Hygiea?

And does anyone want to put anything on 511 Davida or 704 Interamnia?

 
--
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

Well we finally have a new computer system in the base. This is no longer that dinky little control room. This is a COMMAND CENTER.

According to the description of the new unified computer system piece that I installed, this is a full AI. And me and Acyl were standing there talking about
the possibilities. Of maybe having a character made who would actually be the human interface persona of the system AI. The first thing I said was "we are
NOT naming this thing Durandal, just to get that out of the way right off the bat!" ^_^

But that inevitably led to comparisons with Canal from Lost Universe and Cortana from Halo. So maybe...

Anyway, take a peek at the new center while you're in the base! I'm proud of the way this one looks!

According to DailyTech, the Florida Supreme Court has sent Jack Thompson an "Order to
Show Cause" regarding his making a nuisance of himself in the courts:

Quote: It appears to the Court that you have abused the legal system by submitting numerous frivolous and inappropriate filings in this Court.




Therefore, it is ordered that you shall show cause on or before March 5, 2008, why this Court should not find that you have abused the legal system process
and impose upon you a sanction for abusing the legal system, including, but not limited to directing the Clerk of this Court to reject for filing any future
pleadings, petitions, motions, letters, documents, or other filings submitted to this Court by you unless signed by a member of The Florida Bar other than
yourself.

Quote: This is the single greatest gift that any court has ever given me in my 31 years of practicing law. I shall now, through a new federal lawsuit, deconstruct
The Florida Bar ... This court has threatened Thompson. He does not threaten back. He hereby informs this court that he will see it in federal court.