Read about these a while ago, and finally managed to find a site wit better info:
www.nasa.gov/centers/dryd...-DFRC.html

All right. J. Random Muggle is hiking the Scottish moors and discovers Hogwarts. The reason s/he can see it, is that s/he is immune to magic that would affect him/her directly. Winds up with a position as Professor of Muggle Studies.
Title?
Harry Potter and the Mundane Ambassador.
Of course this is an Original Character fic... I just got sick of seeing the Mary Sue fics some of the kids are writing on the Pit of Voles...
So instead of a magical prodigy, we have an Uber-Muggle.
''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

Another Spontaneous Task Force completed.
Task Force Astral completed Moonfire. Don't worry Bob, we all have other toons that need the badge for when you're back from vacation.

And, showing the flag as it were:

Since nobody else has mentioned it yet...
The current "Rebuild" trailer, with footage

-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

I just got Sky respecced, so if you're still interested in that Freebird set for Space Mage we can arrange a meeting whenever it's convenient for you - my schedule's pretty clear.
Ja, -n

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

Being completely serious for a moment...
While looking for something else, I discovered CodeAmber.org today. It's a non-profit web service that compiles and retransmits official Amber Alerts from across the US and Canada. As part of the "retransmit" part of that goal, they make available free scripts to add Amber Alert tickers to web pages and desktops.
I plan to add the ticker to my website as I update the pages. Anyone else?

-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

Today's UFie link is Read Print, a collection of free "classic" works that doesn't suck. They've got works by Shakespere, Byron, Tennyson, Blazac, Wells, Orwell, Dumas, Shaw, Dickens, Kipling, Verne, Fitzgerald, and many, many others.
(I hope I posted this before Bob left on vacation, and that he managed to find a laptop to read these on...)

-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

Some ideas from anime, some could at least start research on and start selling to the market....
1. Amour cat....who wouldn't like to have a furry and lovable bodyguard like Urra?
2. Very Personal Digital Assistant....aka Passacoms. I give this one 5 years minimum before the first model comes to market.
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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

Looking through the ideas here, I don't think this one has come up yet.
I've been getting into One Piece lately, having found a place to download uncut fansubs, rather than dealing with the 4kids version. It strikes me as an interesting locale for Doug in the way his initial impressions might turn out to be wrong. Specifically, there is a United Nations organization called the World Government in this case. They field a force to oppose international criminals, including some metatalents. Sounds familiar, right?
But in this case, the World Government's status as the Good Guys is highly questionable. On the other hand, pirates like the Straw Hats are the exception, rather than the rule. For every high Marine officer who qualifies as one of the white-hats (Like Smoker) there are a bunch of complete a$$-hats.
Along with the posibilites for a severe shift in world view part way through, I do notice that Luffy keeps insisting that pirates should sing.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad.  In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.

"Essential Identity" -- a virtual music video forDrunkard's Walk V/Oh! My Brother Book IIFeaturing characters from "Oh! My Goddess" and "Oh! My Brother"Music: "Bitch" by Meredith Brooks. Words and Music by Meredith Brooks and Shelly Peiken. Copyright (C) 1997 EMI Blackwood MusicInc., Kissing Booth Music, and Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.-------------(BLANK WHITE SCREEN. AS MUSIC COMES UP, WE REALIZE THIS IS THE RESULT OF OVEREXPOSURE, OF MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF LIGHT, AS THE BRIGHTNESS CRANKS DOWN AND A SILHOUETTED FIGURE MATERIALIZES. WE SEE HER FROM THE BACK -- BLACK LEATHER AND BLONDE HAIR. SHE TURNS, AND WE SEE THAT IT IS MARA, COMPLETE WITH BLAZING CRIMSON DEMON MARKS. CAMERA COMES IN TO A HEAD-AND-SHOULDERS SHOT ON HER AND THE BACKGROUND DIALS DOWN TO A FAINTLY LUMINESCENT WHITE AS SHE SINGS.)MARAI hate the world today.(MARA MORPHS INTO BELLDANDY. UNTIL NOTED OTHERWISE BELOW,EACH CHANGE OF SINGER IS A MORPH AGAINST THE BLANK WHITEBACKGROUND.)BELLDANDYYou're so good to me,I know, but I can't change.URDTried to tell you but you Look at me like maybeI'm an angel underneath,SKULDInnocent and sweet.BELLDANDYYesterday I cried.MARAYou must have been relieved To see the softer side.SKULDI can understand How you'd be so confused.I don't envy you.URDI'm a little bit of everythingAll rolled into one.MARAI'm a bitch URDI'm a loverSKULDI'm a child BELLDANDYI'm a motherMARAI'm a sinnerBELLDANDYI'm a saintURDI do not feel ashamedMARAI'm your hellBELLDANDYI'm your dreamURDI'm nothing in betweenSKULDYou know you wouldn't want it any other way.BELLDANDYSo take me as I am.URDThis may mean you'll have To be a stronger man.MARARest assured that when I Start to make you nervousAnd I'm going to extremesSKULDTomorrow I will changeBELLDANDYAnd today won't mean a thing.MARAI'm a bitch URDI'm a loverSKULDI'm a child BELLDANDYI'm a motherMARAI'm a sinnerBELLDANDYI'm a saintURDI do not feel ashamedMARAI'm your hellBELLDANDYI'm your dreamURDI'm nothing in betweenSKULDYou know you wouldn't want it any other way.(MUSICAL BRIDGE)BELLDANDYJust when you think You got me figured outURDThe season's already changing.SKULDI think it's cool, You do what you doMARAAnd don't try to save me.BELLDANDYI'm a bitchSKULDI'm a loverMARAI'm a childURDI'm a motherBELLDANDYI'm a sinnerMARAI'm a saintSKULDI do not feel ashamedBELLDANDYI'm your hellMARAI'm your dreamSKULDI'm nothing in betweenURDYou know you wouldn't want it any other way.SKULDI'm a bitchBELLDANDYI'm a teaseMARAI'm a goddess on my kneesURDWhen you hurt, when you sufferSKULDI'm your angel undercoverBELLDANDYI've been numbMARAI'm revived(THE CAMERA PULLS BACK AND WE SEE URD, SKULD, BELLDANDY AND MARA, STANDING TOGETHER IN A ROW, SWAYING TO THE MUSIC.)ALLCan't say I'm not aliveYou know I wouldn't want it any other way(MUSIC BEGINS OUTRO. ENTER PARADOX FROM RIGHT, LOOKING CONFUSED AND PUZZLED. AS SONG GOES THROUGH INSTRUMENTAL ENDING, THEY SLINK PAST PARADOX ONE BY ONE AND EXIT RIGHT, TRAILING THEIR FINGERTIPS ACROSS HIS ARM, CHEST OR FACE. PARADOX NODS AND SMILES, OBVIOUSLY HAVING NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON. LAST TO LEAVE IS MARA, WHO GRINS AND PATS HIS CHEEK BEFORE SHE LEAVES THE FRAME.MUSIC ENDS.PARADOX TAKES A MOMENT MORE TO CATCH ON, THEN WHIRLS AND STARES OFF RIGHT.)PARADOX (Yelling)Hey! What's *she* doing here?(BLACKOUT)