A Prisoner spoof made using toys, with many references to Python and other classics. Worth a look.

-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.

I was looking at the Timeline on the wiki and noticed a few oddities.
1 involves Rockhounds, Inc:
Winter 2007/08: Rockhounds, Inc. orbits their first Space Rock
Summer 2008: Space Rock #7 is returned to the Belt to become the core of Seijutaigakure no Sato.
They mined out 6 asteroids in roughly as many months? Isn't that a little fast?
The other oddity is the backstory of the Pinafore;
Horatio Caine of the Miami-Dade PD's CSI team tracks down Colombian drug mogul Gervasio Faustino de Leon to his yacht, the Pinnafarina, in drydock. Exciting gun battles take place within, and the druglord's Ferrari crashes through the vehicle bay doors, leading to a car chase, exploding Italian coachwork near the airport, and Major Arrest #65 or so for Horatio.
I thought we were avoiding using TV characters as real people?__________________
666-HELL The phone number of the Beast
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin

New Scientist linky
Given there seem to be people here from both sides of the political spectrum, I thought this might be of interest.
My favourite bit:

Quote:

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Out of the 500 trials that each subject completed, he or she was presented with the same letter 80% of the time. This meant that the participants felt compelled to press the same button repeatedly.
(snip)
When the less common letter did appear on the screen, the people who identified themselves as more conservative (rating themselves somewhere between 1 and 5 on the initial questionnaire) pressed the "usual" button 47% of the time instead of switching to the correct button.
By comparison, the "liberals" who placed themselves between -5 and -1 on the questionnaire responded more readily to the new signal and achieved the slightly lower error rate of 37%

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For about the, oh...next week or so? We're not there, sorta. Week long visit from family, won't be able to reach anyone, as the computer room is going to be locked, so our family can't get -in- there. So, if you can't reach us, we're fine. Though not really. If one of you wants to mount a rescue mission to rescue us from this, our darkest hour, we'd appreciate it.

Signed,
JC, Emperor In the Corner
Mitch, Genius Under The Bed
Steph, She Who Hides Behind The Frying Pan.
P.S. *Whimpers* They're -here-...all is lost...

Since it came up in the "Three Graces" thread, here's what I just put in the wiki:

Stellvia Corporation

Stellvia Corporation is a holding company founded on 1 July 2009, with Noah Scott being the sole
stockholder.

It owns or has controlling interest in three companies, and has minor holdings in many other 'Dane and Fen businesses.

Daughter companies

* Stellvia Trading: Founded 1 July 2009; owner/operator of the
Stellvia trading-post-and-resort space station; 100% owned by Stellvia Corp.

* name to be announced later (Please do not suggest one; I already
have a name picked out, but it's a spoiler. -RK): Founded 15 June 2013; philanthropic organization, backer of the Space
Patrol; owned 51% by Stellvia Corp., xx% by the Soviet Air Force,
xx% by Operation GREAT JUSTICE, and the remainder by other companies and individuals.

* Artemis Corporation: Founded 1 April 2014; in charge of Project Artemis, any new Shuttles
built by the company, and Main Belt Research Stations McAuliffe and
Chawla; owned 85% by Stellvia Corp., 5% by 'Dane interests supposedly not connected with NASA,
and 10% by other Fen organizations and individuals.



-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

Acyl, is there something we should know?

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"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."

Animated chalkboards at Youtube. Flaw: ends too early. Bonus: Links to other "Mandelbrot Set" videos in the usual place.

-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.

Madeline L'Engle has passed away.

-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.

to 60k.
Admit it... its all material that was already written just waitin for its chance to shine, innit?"I was an Otaku before those kids came along and changed the meaning of the word."
-- HM "Howling Mad" Wilson to more than one team-mate.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

www.scifi.com/scifiwire/i...p?id=43915
Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire will produce and may star in a film based on the classic SF anime Robotech, according to The Hollywood Reporter.