Anyone want a lightsabre...This dudes making them
Pity its a Corran Horn sabre... but still Lightsabre!
Now if only I wasn't flat broke atm.

Was sent this from my mom, actually. Interesting look at the Keystone Pipeline issue from a Canadian POV.

( EDIT: For those of you having trouble seeing the embed, here's a URL link to the host webpage:

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/keys ... 0506675001
I'm noticing that I can see it fine on Firefox but that Chrome doesn't like it. Check browsers?)

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer ... d=1&isUI=1

http://journal.neilgaiman.../remebering-moebius.html
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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

"Magical duel? I'll do no such thing. Throwing about little balls of fire or bolts of lightning, such things are beneath me as a War-Wizard of the Collegium. No, if you want an example of my magic, point out a goodly sized city of your enemies, and have your army lay siege to it for a week to prevent escape while I perform one of the lesser Rituals. When the sun rises on the eigth day every stone of the walls and within them will melt away like morning fog. That is the kind of magic at my command. Supply a dozen novices to assist and the time can be cut to three days through my puissant skill, or with twenty one days ending on a new moon the mist can be rendered so violently explosive that a single candle or pipe-match alight within it will leave naught but a scorched crater where the target once stood."

- CD
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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

Hermione would play a preistess of Oghma, the god of knowledge.

Ron would be a Sorcerer, able to toss impressive numbers of a few good spells, without all that studying dusty tomes rot.

Harry, who likes to avoid notice generally, would probably be some form of mage-thief. I can't see him giving up on casting ability entirely, and a good Spider Climb, Chameleon or True Strike is invaluable to a Thief.

Fred & George, the human bludgers, would be Chaotic Good variant Paladins, I think. Possibly as a single character between them, the two voices in his head just adding to the Chaotic part of the equation.

Neville, pretty solid Druid material, planned feat progression leading to Treant Wildshape.

Ginny, a Dual-Wield path Ranger, or perhaps a Warmage.

Albus, in a baffling turn that they can't bring themselves to do more then smile shakily and play along with, shows up for the second session (the first having been devoted to character creation with a short go at Monte Cooks "The Orc and Pastry" to get a feel for the basics afterward) with a character all ready to go ... Albie Stocking-Foot, a halfling Bard whose spell selection focuses on Divination and Abjuration, whose feat selection and alternate class abilities plan sacrifices some spell casting for more, and more powerful, Bardic Music, and who wears thick woolly socks instead of going traditionally barefoot due to a shocking lack of below-the-ankle hair.

Luna Lovegood is the Dungeon Master, with Dobby for help with munchies, mood-setting music, shadow-puppets and props.

Now, the real question: Is imagining their campaignm, after running through EN Publishing's "Return to the Orc and Pastry" and defeating the squid-god worshipping goblin ninjas, more terrifying or hilarious?

Timeline, Herry's third year, I think. It could be 6th, but the low quality of post GoF books makes me vote against it.

- CD
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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

Ottawa Sun review
tl;dr: The reviewer (who's read the Barsoom books) compares the movie - unfavorably - to Dune and Star Wars Episode 1.

Whoever's going, please post a review afterward so I know whether I should go...
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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

Anyone else having random pages just come up white?  No text, no images, nothing.  The status says the page has loaded.  I can force a reload and it comes up most of the times.  A couple of times I've had to force a reload two or three times before the page displays.

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiffb ... rom=ghibli
The Toronto International Film Festival is showing a fifteen-film retrospective of Studio Ghibli's work entitled "Spirited Away:  The Films of Studio Ghibli".
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Castle in the Sky
Only Yesterday
Ponyo
My Neighbor Totoro
Princess Mononoke
Whisper of the Heart
Porco Rosso
Kiki's Delivery Service
The Cat Returns
The Ocean Waves
My Neighbor the Yamadas
Pom Poko
Spirited Away
Howl's Moving Castle
With a 3 1/2 to 4 hour trip, plus border crossings, there is no way I can make it.

So, this is a thing.


Here's the order page. I'm rather tempted.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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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