I saw the note at the top of the page that the board will be migrating to yuku sometime this week, so I thought that this was a good time to migrate my ezBoard member proflie over. Problem is, the form refuses to recognize the text I key in from the captcha it gives me. I tried a half-dozen times, then went through the ridiculous process that they have to create a trouble ticket.
(As an aside, having worked on the Helldesk, er, Help Desk, in the past, it should not take a user a quarter-hour to open a trouble ticket. Fix your process, yuku and ezBoard.)
Anyway, I have trouble ticket NIH-77727 open with ezBoard about this, but who knows whether they'll get to it before they migrate the board? Especially at this time of year...
-Rob Kelk
"Actually, my goal is to write neat stories. The money just makes it possible for me to write them faster and then buy neat toys."
Ryk E. Spoor, 7 November 2007
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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

Trust me. Just clicky on the linky.
If you like City of Heroes - if you like The Blue Man Group. If you like seeing wonderfully timed music vids, you owe it to yourself to watch this. Much win and awesome!
-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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Harry glared at Draco, hoping that this would look reasonably convincing. Polyjuice of Snape wasn't easy to get hold of (they'd had to degrease the hair for one thing). "Sex Education, Practical: Report to me in the Stationery Cupboard."
"Wha- bu-" Draco spluttered.
'Snape' rolled his eyes. "Draco..." he hissed, discreetly tapping his left forearm.
Draco's eyes widened and he nodded quickly. "I understand Professor."
"Excellent," Harry sneered and stalked away, his robes flapping around him. A couple of Hufflepuff firsties burst into tears as he glared at them.
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"All ready?" he asked a tapestry on the third floor.
"The roosters are polyjuiced, bound and gagged," Ron replied quietly from behind the tapestry. "They look like a couple of ordinary girls... Harry are you sure that this is the right thing to do?"
"Don't forget what we're doing this for, Ron," Harry told him in a dangerous voice. "Some sacrifices need to be made."
Ron hesitated. "You're right Harry," he agreed. "But those poor roosters."
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"Harry," Dumbledore said. "I'm sure you know why I asked you to meet me here."
Harry scratched his chin and kept his rear pointed at the wall. For some reason, unexplained summons by a Hogwarts Professor made him feeling a little nervous. "No Professor."
"Then you don't know anything about these photographs of Draco Malfoy in the Stationary Cupboard performing a disgusting sexual act on a rooster?" Dumbledore asked, his twinkling eyes at a contrast to his stern expression.
"Ah..."
"Or the fact that several of his House Mates have reported that he had been ordered to the Stationary Cupboard by Professor Snape for..." the old man hesitated. "Practical sex education?"
"I'd heard that, Professor, but you know what rumours are like around Hogwarts."
"Ah, indeed." Dumbledore steepled his hands. "So why did you do this, Harry."
Harry gulped. "Two reasons, headmaster. Firstly, it was the first of April - it's traditional to prank someone that day."
"Really?"
Harry nodded vigorously. "Ask any of the muggleborn students sir, they'll all know about April Fool's Day."
"It was still a cruel and malicious thing to do, Harry."
"It was for the greater good, Headmaster."
"The greater good?" Dumbledore blinked. "I don't understand, Harry."
"Sacrifices have to be made," Harry said seriously. "You taught me that, Headmaster. I knew I was letting the roosters in for a dark and difficult time. I knew that they would suffer. You might ask why it had be so. Why could I not just have sat back, let things go on? I beat Voldemort last year, kept him from the Prophecy, but his supporters are still at large, angry, desperate and violent. And so I made my decision. That the children at Hogwarts needed to be protected. For the greater good."
He walked over to the window and stared out of it. "Ah, here they are," he said. "Orderlies from Saint Mungos. No one who did what Draco did can be sane, headmaster. So he'll be locked away for the foreseeable future. Where he can't hurt himself or anyone else. And the roosters?" He sighed. "I shall have to hope that they someday can understand and forgive me, for sacrificing their innocence for the greater good."
Dumbledore's mouth was slack. "I-I-I... Harry?"
"Are you proud of me?" Harry asked, his face suddenly hopeful. "It is what you would do, isn't it?"
Albus Dumbledore stared at the shining, innocent face of the Boy-Who-Lived and a lone tear trickled down his cheek.
D for Drakensis

You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.

[another disturbingly simple and well made idea from 4chan]
1835
American satirist and writer Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, exactly two weeks after the comet's perihelion. In his biography, he said, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.' " Twain died on April 21, 1910, the day following the comet's subsequent perihelion
# November 25 - Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1919)
# November 29 - Empress Dowager Cixi of China (d. 1908 )
# November 30 - Mark Twain, American author and humorist (d. 1910)
-Wikipedia

Every 70 years Haley's passes over the Earth. By 1835 mankind had developed with enough subtle mutations from the radiation that the full force of it's influence could begin. Everyone born under the comet's passing, including the three above as famous examples, would grow into adulthood only to discover amazing superhuman abilities. They would be the generation that shaped the world, until the comet's return in 1910, depowering those of them left alive and setting up the next generation of great individuals in the process.

Trying to find a theme everyone can agree on, step n...
I present, Shin Seiki Yoroiden Mahou Shoujo REKKA NO INEZ! ^.^

So... required bits would be jeweled tiara, Enforcer breastplate, jeweled belt; some kind of skirt and some kind of shoulderpads; everything else up to the player.
Second costume slot, civvies; third slot, a unified-theme "heavier armor" thing with Enforcer tights all over, maybe even the heavy gloves and boots, and tech wings (I'll run a demo on that look in a bit); fourth slot, the hyper glowing power avatar form; fifth... dunno really.
Comments, thoughts, crushing rejections?

ETA: Prototyping the Heavy Armor look...

ETA again: based on Acyl's suggestions, here's a revised prototype.

Light Enforcer armor and Jester shortnose standard. The veil is Inez's trademark, and the leather skirt would allow for individualized print (such as the flames) while keeping the Enforcer color scheme on the armor.
--Sam
"I studied and trained for nearly THREE WEEKS!"

How many can you identify?

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

"Origins of Magic: review of genetic and epigenetic effects" www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7633/1299.
This is a great joke for the Potter fans (or genetics fans ^_^) out there

--The Twisted One"If you wish to converse with me, define your terms."
--Voltaire
"If you
wish to converse with me, define your
terms."

--Voltaire

3 hours to travel 35 miles by car...
I hate SoCal freeways.
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

First trailer is up and the initial reaction is along the lines of
Hellboy punching evil elves == TEH WIN.---
Mr. Fnord
http://fnord.sandwich.net/
http://www.jihad.net/
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

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"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

Today, my father gave me a shopping list, on which he misspelled "raisin bran" as "Riase Brand."
This set me to thinking of the sort of world where such a thing would be said:
Slayers-like fantasy setting, anyone?
''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