Two, actually:
Ken Weatherwax, aka Pugsley on the original Addams Family, died of a heart attack over the weekend.
And Mary Ann Mobley, former Miss America and actress, has died from cancer -- exactly when isn't clear from the CNN article, but presumably within the last few days.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I was browsing through my copy of IST and couldn't find any mention of Japanese metahumans in WWII, was there one I missed or did it end up getting trimmed for space?
Also, were there ever any write-ups for any of the named metas from WWII?

Thanks,

M
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Anyone watched the launch yesterday?
The good news is that we no longer have to rely on the Russians for to go to the ISS.

Better news..on to Mars!
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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

Is anyone else seeing a massive slowdown for some sites on the net?  Since last evening, sites like Amazon.con. IMDb, and the Huff Post are responding so slowly for me as to be unusable.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

So I was in the process of trying to determine where all the characters from the original books are now and I managed to get stumped on one I just could not, for the life of me, come up with anything interesting for. Icepick.
There are no obvious hooks for her character and I didn't want to just go "dead" or "in prison" or what have you, but she's just not...interesting...at all. She is basically her power, and I guess I could do something with that...except I've got a Russian super that I already used my "man becomes elemental force" card on.

Any ideas?

M
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Notice of Intent to Incorporate under section 74656.1864 of the Galactic Charter Regulations for Colonial Expansion

The aliens were among us

The galaxy is teeming with life; the leading theory being that the earliest self-replicating molecules formed by chance late in the life cycle of the first-population stars, then spread on the shockfronts of novas and through hyperspace fractures formed by the sudden shifting of their mass-shadows. Essentially anywhere something can survive, something does.

We never knew they were there

The great Galactic Wars lie tens of thousands of years in the past, the treaty organizations and trade councils formed in their wakes having grown and merged into a massive interstellar bureaucracy that governs all with a papery grasp, impersonal and pedantic.

When their survey was complete, they acted

"Seriously, they speak how many languages on the at planet? It'll take weeks just to read the formal notice of intent in all of those, and it's not like the locals even have receivers to hear the broadcast!"

"There's nothing saying they have to be listening, just that we have to broadcast the notice in language understood by every local inhabitant thirty duty cycles before the motion is put to vote, so regional representatives have time to arrive. It's doubly pointless, since the review meeting is at the sector capital, but the forms have to be followed and all the entries filled. It's why we sent a fleet's worth of observers down there for the last seventy orbits."

Only one man heard the warning

Dr. (name) was, frankly, a nerd. He did number puzzles, studied foreign languages, and traded cryptographic challenges with an online group for fun, had his own personal server room (Well, a room where he kept the still functional older computers as he regualrly replaced his current primary one, running protein folding and SETI clients) and had originally been aiming to work in high-energy experimental physics until the US canceled the Supercollider and shut down the Tevatron, leaving the only remaining operational hardware overseas. Not that he was a rabid flag-flapper, either, but his family and friends were here, and staffing needs in the field were never large to begin with. With that avenue largely closed, he had instead pursued string theory and the design of sensors capable of detecting tiny fluctuations in the fabric of space itself. That was how he came to be the first sapient native to Earth to decipher a hyperwave broadcast, when the regular "noise" he'd been trying to show had a connection to the mass shifts of solr wheather and prominences was suddenly drowned out by a far stronger signal, one that was immediately recogniseable as carrying basic amplitude modulated sound in the normal audible range. The fact that it was in Chinese when he set up a program to convert the measurements back into sound was slightly concerning at first, until he found that the message was simply being repeated over and over by descending order of the population that spoke it, but then it started playing in a language he understood, and he didscovered that there was good reason to be alarmed.

There are thirty days left to build a hyperspace-capable shuttle, gather representatives of the nations of Earth, and attend the Colonial Review Board, or else

If the Motion to Incorporate is passed as laid out in the aliens' broadcast, Earth will become an Expendable Resource Extraction and Processing Outpost, and any inhabitants not registered as Galactic Citizens (meaning, in effect, all of humanity) considered outlaws and claim jumpers, subject to suppression and removal from properly registered claims (i.e. anywhere there's something remotely valuable, like oilfields or mines or factories) unless they comply with the registered owner's terms.

Can human civilization survive?

You decide!

... 'cause I ain't go no more on this. I was reaching just to put it together this much.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

I know very little about Warhammer 40000 (war games aren't my cup of tea), but I recall there's at least one person here who is familiar with the game...

I've come across a few pages of free WH40K 3D-art resources, and I'd like to say more than just "assorted items" when I index them on the freebie wiki. If you know the game, how would you sort what's listed on these pages?

http://www.vanishingpoint.biz/freestuff ... ationID=15
http://www.vanishingpoint.biz/freestuff ... ationID=15
http://www.vanishingpoint.biz/freestuff ... ationID=15
http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads. ... e=jibicoco
http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads. ... &s=dd&pn=2

(I'm not even sure whether everything on the last two pages is for WH40K. I think the majority of items are, though.)

I'm deliberately not suggesting any categories, because I don't know what divisions are important in this context.
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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

No, not a crossover - the title and the cast of the 24th James Bond movie was announced today.

Including the car.

http://www.bbc.com/news/30308894
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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

While looking at the Crossovers That Should Not Be thread, it occured to me that I've had ideas that maybe should be, and not all of them are Crossovers either. But, given my ability to write up any story has become increasingly rare as of late, the odds of me even managing a snippet or two are unlikely, so I figured I'd share them anyway. And if you've had ideas you haven't been able to write up, go ahead and share them here. You might get a chuckle, or give someone else an idea.

This one, I've had in my head for a long time. Basically, right at the beginning of the Clone Wars, right after the Battle of Genosios, Palpatine is caught in a legitimate accident. Drunk driver in an aircar, faulty elevator, a tragic incident involving Corellian Ale, it doesn't really matter. What matters is that the Supreme Chancellor is dead, in what only conspiracy nuts would claim is a Seperatist plot, and with no evidence he was a Sith. His authority is passed down to Bail Organa, who now has to win the war, but also follow through on the legacy of a man the majority of the galaxy believes was just and good. Dooku finds himself trapped on the side he'd always planned to betray, the Sith lose control of the Senate, and the Clone Wars go in a very different direction indeed....

Watch this!

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