Cartoonist Ed Piskor has been pre-publishing in the web the pages for a planned graphic novel about the history and evolution of hip-hop culture.It's well researchead, well drawn and never boring. Well worth a look.
You can find the whole collection here: http://boingboing.net/tag/hip-hop-family-tree . It updates (almost) every tuesday, there is a link to the latest one on the BoingBoing main page

As I suggested in a different thread, here's a topic where we can put titles (and maybe synopses) of books published in or about Fenspace.
To start off, though, how about a list of Fen publishing houses?  A quick troll through the wiki reveals only Hogwarts' Press and Library Alpha's little press.  Surely there must be others in a civilization so inspired by the written word...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

This is another aspect of the world we'll have to flesh-out.  I, for one, enjoy games with teen characters as they're still discovering who they are, which leads to scads of entertaining role-playing.
So, Bob, did you have a location where you wanted the Academy was located?

For those who don't remember, the old prop from Star Trek has bounced around various owners over the last couple of decades, most intending (or attempting anyway) to restore her to her television brilliance. And then the fans lost track of her, and at one point it was assumed she was lost forever, either destroyed or scrapped. Until someone found a familiar silhouette hiding under a tarp in a lot on an industrial property.
There were a couple of attempts to get in touch with the current owner... until the business owner decided it needed to go, and told the owner basically, "it goes, or it's scrapped". And she wound up being put up to auction again to save her.
Well, this time, she got herself an owner that properly followed through with restoring her to glory and finding her a home that will properly care for her. A heartwarming conclusion that balances out the heartbreak of the fact that so much of her had to be replaced because of all the years of neglect and outdoor storage, only her frame and "pontoon" nacelles are still original.

http://www.blastr.com/2013-6-25/marvel- ... os-shuttle
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

-INFORMATION STRIPPED PENDING FULL REWRITE-

This is a question I have on my mind since I asked about beamsabers in my earlier thread.  It came up that the GN drive & particle theory were in the Catalog and that they would not be released till 2020.  Now what would GN particles do to/with Handwavium?  What do you guys think? 

http://m.fanfiction.net/s/8438238

I'm curious as to what people think of this fic. It's competently written, but the casual mind control and murder are rather disturbing if you step back from the immediacy of the narrative.
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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

Now, he is legend.

NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... t=1&f=1032
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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

I don't know whether Doug's going to be going face-to-face with Voldie and let him live at the end of it, but if he is, here's a quote for the occasion. It should be obvious who gets which line.

William Turner: You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement! In a fair fight, I'd kill you!
Jack Sparrow: Well, that's not much incentive for me to fight fair then, is it?
– Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
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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

As my muse directs me in fiddling with wiki markup, I more or less managed to get something for the 2022 update done. Below is my shot at describing the Company organisation for what goes on at the Forge (suitably wikified).

Comments?