I was reading something a while back (and I have a crap memory so please bear with me) on wikipedia a little while back. It was on a fiction book or series and how an alien species is unable to eat earth biological stuff because of some incompability. It then took me to a link to a science article on how molecules or cells or something took one direction on Earth but it doesn't neccessarily have to have taken that direction elsewhere.
Anyone know what I'm talking about?
-murmur
bothering me, man. niggling at the mind.

Or might as well have. Technically we can refuse to speak to police officers, they can also refuse to take no for an answer.
I urge everyone to write their local member of parliament about this.
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Epsilon

LINKIN PARK LYRICS
"Bleed It Out"
Yeah here we go for the hundredth time
Hand grenade pins in every line
Throw 'em up and let something shine
Going out of my fucking mind
Filthy mouth, no excuse
Find a new place to hang this noose
String me up from atop these roofs
Knot it tight so i won't get loose
Truth is you can stop and stare
Bled myself out and no one cares
Dug the trench out laid down there
With a shovel up out of reach somewhere
Yeah, someone pour it in
Make it a dirt dance floor again
Say your prayers and stomp it out
When they bring that chorus in
[Chorus]
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out
[End Chorus]
Go stop the show
Choppy words and a sloppy flow
Shotgun opera lock and load
Cock it back and then watch it go
Mama help me I've been cursed
Death is rolling in every verse
Candy paint on his brand new hearse
Can't contain him he knows he works
Fuck this hurts I won't lie
Doesn't matter how hard I try
Half the words don't mean a thing
And I know that I wont be satisfied
So why try ignoring him
Make it a dirt dance floor again
Say your prayers and stomp it out
When they bring that chorus in
[Chorus]
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out
I've opened up these scars
I'll make you face this
I've pulled myself so far
I'll make you, face, this, now!!!!
[Chorus]
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
Just to throw it away
I bleed it out
I bleed it out
I bleed it out

This song looks like it would either kill Doug or provide some sort of cathartic experience which allows him to squeeze the results of months worth of intensive psychotherapy into a few minutes."Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM ofthe Rings XXXV
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV

Okay. I just have to add a plug for the OTHER fun game in the Orange box that isn't Half-Life 2.
Team Fortress 2.
This game is hellaciously fun, incredibly well balanced and sometimes very -very- funny.
Art style makes the world look like you're in the world of The Incredibles. All I can think of when trying to describe the concept and reason for the two groups fighting is that you have two supervillain minion teams going at it hammer and tongs. ^_^
Especially when they give you cool intros to the characters like the following -
Team Fortress 2 Teaser trailer
Watch this gameplay trailer for an overall idea of the various character types weaknesses and strengths.
In addition to which, there are 4 (so far) individual character intros that I have found that are laugh out loud funny!
The Heavy - Big Heavy Russian (Austrian?) Dude. "People think they can outsmart me. Maybe. Maybe. Yet to see one can outsmart BULLET. HAHAHA!! Cry some more!"
The Soldier Doing his best Patton impersonation.
The Demoman One-eyed Black Scotsman - "Och laddie they'll have to glue you back together noo! IN HELL!!"
And my personal FAVORITE of the ones that have come out so far -
The Engineer Soft spoken Texan with a penchant for low key humor.
"I solve practical problems."
"The answer: Use a gun. And if that don't work, use more gun." (pause)(smile)...(BOOM) "AAAH!! My arm!"
Extra special credit goes to that last one for LIBERAL use of "The Wilhelm Scream" (or something that sounds VERY much like it. ^_^)
-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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Last time I was on, (thursday?) there was some chatter about doing the Shadow Shard TF. Given that:
A) I've heard it's really long (and FUN in all the ways that Posi isn't)
B) I want to avoid a repeat of the last TF/SF attempt I had.
I vote we set aside a block of time well ahead of time that people can agree to.
So what time next weekend will work for people? (and if not next weekend what times are open?)-Terry
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery
The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

On rec.arts.anime.misc, at least...
Bill Martin's put together three new posters - the first for the guys, the secondfor the gals, and finally one for the cosplayers.
May be NSFW, depending on how conservative work is...

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 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

Paper automata
Including a paper combination lock...

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
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

Kevin Smith recounts how he protested his own movie Dogma. Bonus link on the page to the TV news coverage of the protest, for which he was interviewed.-- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Taken from space. Check'em out.-- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I see them singing the following songs:

1. Do You Hear The People Sing?
2. Empty Chairs and and Empty Tables
3. Suicide is Painless
4. Amazing Grace
5. G.I Joe Theme Song
6. One Day More
7. Geki !Teikoku Kageki-dan!
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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