Tough decision... The sheer amount of original footage in the video is impressive, though.
Aqualine studio's alternate anime opening credits - that's a direct link to the avi file.
No, I'm not saying which anime - you have to watch it to find out. (Or read the URL...)
-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

I haven't been around much for the last month or so. Got horribly busy trying to reverse entropy at work. (Not impossible! Work is an open system, so it's just a matter of transferring entropy to other people. This is called "delegation" or "paperwork" depending on the methods used.)
ANNNYway. I'm pleased to announce that my wife and I just had our second child (a boy) on the 20th and got to come home on Thanksgiving, no less. We're all doing fine, if a little punchy from lack of sleep, including the newly crowned Big Sister, who is, at long last, larger than someone else in the family.
California has possibly the most generous family leave plan in the country, so I don't have to go back to work for a while, but there's plenty of entropy to keep me busy at home. So I don't know how much I'll be around the next month or two. Probably in fits and starts at odd hours, until things return to some new version of normal. We'll see.
Cheers,
Render

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One of THE FUNNIEST 10 minute stretches in American Television History!
"As God as my witness, I thought Turkeys could fly!"
Happy Thanksgiving! ^_^
-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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It's coming up to Christmas, and I'm wondering which new books to either purchase for others or put on my own Christmas list, so please tell us some ideas of your own. Two from me
Soon I Will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman: See the thread of the same name for people's opinions, including mine,
Resident Evil, The Umbrella Conspiracy - S.D. Perry: A paperback novelization of the first resident evil game. As someone who loves the idea and storyline of the Resident Evil series, but who quite bluntly blows at that kind of gameplay, the Resident Evil series always held a particular kind of frustration for me, in that i was always intrigued by them but found them to difficult to play. So when I saw a novelization of the series in my local book shop, I brought into it pretty quickly, and I'm glad I did. Whilst these aren't incredibly good I found them competent at least, and for the most part very enjoyable, The first in particular. I love the dynamic between the S.T.A.R.S team, and way thing seem to so legitimately spiral out of control, as well as the sense of isolation and helplessness she conveys in the team. And the characterization as well, such as the brilliant and capable Captain Wesker's slowly escalating egomania and sinister agenda, and Barry's agonizing choice between his family and his friends, plus a lot of Jill's back story, particularly about the two girls who befriended her when she moved into Raccoon and how she now feels driven to avenge their murders by the supposed, 'cannibal cult'.
There are roughly Seven books in the series so far (including some original stories using the game characters, most often Rebbecca Chambers), with more apparently on the way. I'm personally looking forward to seeing if she does Resi4, the one game in the series I could actually play.
So what kind of books do you recommend?

in the latest chapter of the rather awesome fanfic Shinji And Warhammer 40k, the author brings us a question, which I quote below.

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Shinji did three things in this chapter, but one pretty much fraks Gendo's plans now and forever. Which one do you think that is?

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A vauge attempt to drag the gender identity in MMO comments (which I am interested in) out of the teamspeak/ventrilo thread..

CoH seems a lot less biased as towards gender than many other MMOs I've played - but I think a lot of that is due to the availability of more conservative/modest fashion choices for female toons.. Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

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Caine reached into his inside jacket pocket and pulled out a
pair of dataglasses, unfolding them. He regarded them thoughtfully for
a moment before glancing sidelong at Gryphon again.
Then, slipping the glasses on, he remarked, "Sometimes rules
change, Benjamin."

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Inspired by a "Crossover that shouldn't be" that I'm going to be putting in the thread of the same name in a couple minutes, I'm offering a fun little challenge.

Alter the name of any TV show, movie or book by one letter, and then write up something akin to a TV Guide entry for the resulting work.
Example:
Zeroes. This six-part miniseries examines the vital role the symbol for "nothing" plays in our economic and cultural history.

-- 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....

I just started up my new Vista box.... Kinda MEH atm but I haven't gotten around to customizing it yet.
Heck I haven't even Firefoxed it yet...
I know my current plans include CoH, Firefox, OpenOffice, and my freebie Graphics programs with my tablet.
I may be able to tolerate a week without my goodies until the Geek Squad Guy comes in to help us port over from the old box...
But Firefox and OpenOffice are REQUIRED so my folks don't freak out any more than usual at the sheer NEWNESS of Vista.
''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