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
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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

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)

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Mummy, Daddy, come and look at me now
I'm a big man in a great big town
Years ago who would believe it's true
Goes to show what a little faith can do
I was complaining, I was down in the dumps
I feel so strong now 'cause you pulled me up
Pulled me up up up up up up up up
I slipped... and I got pulled, pulled up
I tripped... and then you pulled, you pulled me up
I slipped... and I got pulled, pulled up
I slipped... and then you pulled, you pulled me up
Pulled me up, pulled me up
Pulled me up up up up up up up up
I drift away to another land
Sleeping dreaming, such a simple thing
I think of things that I might be
I see my name go down in history
I was complaining, I was down in the dumps
I feel so strong now 'cause you pulled me up
Pulled me up up up up up up up up
I slipped... and I got pulled, pulled up
I tripped... and then you pulled, you pulled me up
I tripped... and I got pulled, pulled up
I slipped... and then you pulled, you pulled me up
Pulled me up up, pulled me up
Pulled me up up up up up up up up
I got up... you pulled me up
I stood up... you pulled me up
I got up... and that was because you pulled me up
I got up... in a little while you pulled me up
Pulled me up up up up up up up up
Pulled me up up up up up up up up
I cast a shadow on the living room wall
Dark and savage with a profile so sharp
Deep and wonderful, food on the table
There's really no hurry, I'll eat in a while
I was complaining, I was down in the dumps
I feel so strong now 'cause you pulled me up
Pulled me up up up up up up up up
I slipped... and I got pulled, pulled up
I tripped... and then you pulled, you pulled me up
I slipped... and I got pulled, pulled up
I slipped... and then you pulled, you pulled me up
Pulled me up up, pulled me up
Pulled me up up up up up up up up
Pulled me up up up up up up up up
Pulled me up up up up up up up up

Pulled Up, performed by the Talking Heads, written by David Byrne, copyright 1977 Index Music, Inc. / Bleu Disque Music, Inc. (ASCAP).
From the album Talking Heads '77, running time 4:29.

My call on the power:
It's an area-effect confidence song, but with a condition: you can't be a "lone wolf" and benefit from it. The stronger the bond between you and your allies who are present, the more confident you become - two people who trust each other with their lives will get a stronger boost from this song than a dozen who've merely trained together would, despite being outnumbered.
Since the Warriors are usually more close-knit than their foes are, this would benefit them more than opponents even if played in the middle of a "furball" melee. (As for DW VI... well, Doug had best start with some other confidence songs, and wait for a while before playing this one for Shinji and Asuka... )

-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'm just now recovering from a multitude of time-eating issues and a series of disasters, coupled with a few problems, with a sprinkling of headaches on top. I haven't touched CoX in almost a month.
I finished reinstalling last night (see 'disasters', above), patched up, and logged on for a bit, but not until tonight and this weekend will I have time to *play*.
Finally, I'm back. Mwuah hah hah!

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

Just what it says...
Part of me says "Oh that's just so WRONG!" and the other part just rolls on the ground unable to breath!!
(I seriously wouldn't worry too much about the squirrel. They survive falls out of taller trees on a regular basis. The square-cube law works in their favor.)-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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As some of you know, Hallowe'en is a major holiday in our house.
And only in our house could one wake up in the morning, reach into the fridge and find this:

The crime trifecta, which is to say the three most profitable criminal enterprises, are Guns, Drugs, and Slaves (personally I think that corporate malfeasance should be there as well but it's not sexy as guns, drugs and slaves).
Now how do these three things interact with Fenspace, which is an essentially (because it's unenforcable [until Operation . . . uh something Justice presumably]) lawless area (libertarian, if you're feeling charitable and all-frontiery)?
Presumably this means that the import and export of pharmaceuticals (which includes alcoholic beverages, by the way) both to and within Fenspace would be unregulated and thus not technically illegal. If Chris Rock has taught us nothing, it's that people are geniuses when it comes to finding ways to f*ck themselves up.
So while the export from fenspace to Earth of controlled substances would be monitored, it's almost impossible to control the drug trafficking there.
However, it's also not likely that earth-side cartels would get much more than an initial foothold on the fenspace drug market because of two factors: local chemical manufacturing and distance. Fens would have access to their medical and chemical plants far closer than the poppy fields of afghanistan or the coca fields of columbia. Reverse-engineering the plants and recreating them at home or making new designer drugs shouldn't be all that difficult, particularly as the distance between earth-side supplier and fen customer would make the markup astronomical.
Guns, however, would be a large market for Fens. Because of the censor function of handwavium, weapons (other than their own ships, an argument i have made before) would be initially difficult to get and manufacture fenspace-side. So weapons from earth would be a large import.
Personally I think that the governments which allow handwavium launches would also be the ones which sells most of the guns to the fens in bulk. But I suppose enterprising criminals would also fit in there.
So if drugs, the traditional big-ticket item is out for "boskones" then guns would definately be a money maker.
Finally, slaves. This commodity is something that criminals already have a large infrastructure in place (as well as governments, by the way, cf. uzbekistan) and is something that fenspace does not have. Which is to say a very large pool of desperately poor people. A "surplus population" in the words of dickens.
The trafficking of people from Earth into Fenspace would probably also be a large money-maker for criminal elements in fenspace.
Though it must be stressed that because there is no enforcable law they are not strictly criminals. Except of the moral variety.
-murmur
also: fenspace as tax haven, tax shelter, data haven.