http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=541]This issue of Sequential Art, to be exact. I so, so, SO want this lawnmower. o/~ Never gonna rake da lawn again! Never gonna rake da law-haw-hawn a-gain! o/~

- CD and that's MY quota of random noise for the month used up...
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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

Okay, most of you probably know already that I use Seamonkey, Mozilla's answer to the old Netscape suite, which rolled email, browser, web dev tools and a few other things all together into one package.  For some months now I've been using version 2.0.14 on both my desktop and Peggy's laptop (which runs Win XP), but last week at the beach house, while using the laptop, I got a notice that 2.2 had come out.  Not having had any problems with Seamonkey upgrades in the past, I okayed installing the new version and went on without a hitch after it was done.

So last night, I got the same notice after working the desktop machine for a while.  And because I'd had no problems with the laptop, I okayed it...  and when it was done, the trouble started.  I could not open any secondary windows beyond the first browser window.  Regardless of what it was -- new browser window, mail reader, preferences dialog, download progress dialog -- it all vanished as soon as it appeared on the screen, as if someone were clicking the "close" button as fast as the window could appear.  I could open new tabs without a problem, but I was forced to remain in a single window.

Long story short, I tried installing the 2.1 release (mostly by accident, because I hadn't noted what version I'd originally been using). That had the exact same problem. Eventually I had to use a system restore point to return the machine to where it had been on Saturday night, using 2.0.14.  So I'm back to proper function, but I'd really like to be using the latest version, if only for the security issues that the Seamonkey Project notes it fixes.  Does anyone know just what the hell it is I ran into, and how to get around it?  I'm running on Win7 Ultimate, but it's been updated and servicepacked and everything so it's the latest thing.  Any more detail on my system will have to wait until I get home and can dump specifics.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

The Darths & Droids webcomic has hit another milestone and celebrated by creating a fake Pirates of the Caribbean webcomic titled Barnacles & Bilgewater: 
www.darthsanddroids.net/barnacles/0050.html
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV

I speak of Improbable Island, a browser-based game like Kingdom of Loathing (though almost entirely prose-based). It's based on Legend of the Green Dragon, if that means anything to any of you. It has a deeply mysterious but obviously painstakingly-developed backstory and outer setting, numerous references (one creature is a Midget Plumber who rants at you about a frequently-abducted princess who baked him a cake!), internal running jokes (lions are sneaky bastards), and nonsequitur hilarity ("You have encountered Haiku Time which lunges at you with five and seven syllables!")
Part of the backstory and much of the game's plot revolve around a device called the Improbability Drive, which permits things and events which are normally outright impossible to exist and occur (as well as screwing with probability in a more mundane fashion). Capital 'I' Improbability is kinda like Handwavium, with three important differences: one, it can't exist outside the Drive's sphere of influence; two, it's more like radiation than a substance; and three (which makes two very important), it lacks the Genre Directive. Improbability can and will create weapons, debilitating biomods, and other assorted nastinesses. The only reason the game isn't a dystopia is that Improbability can help as easily as hinder, can heal as much as harm.
Follow this link if you want to sign up with me as your referrer (I don't think having a referrer grants the newbie any advantages, but I get one free supporter point (which normally cost $1 USD per hundred and can be used to purchase one-shot items and non-stat-altering customization frobs) every time somebody I refer gets a New Day). Follow this link if you want to check the game out, but don't want me to get anything out of it.
EDIT: Oh! Send me a Distraction (in-game mail) and I'll give you a couple hundred Requisition to start out, and teach you Timed Combat, which is a useful (though often annoying) tool to have.

A-ma-zing brains
How sweet the taste
The en-ter-tain-ing screams
I once sur-vived
lived through the plague
but died, be-came
Zombie

(groaning chorus starts up)

A-a-ma-zing braaaaaaains
(etc.)

My uncle had some folksinger's version on his CD player whle changing the "annoy-you filter" on the Blue Pig (some flavor of SUV) earlier - but this CD doesn't play that way.

Of course, I'm pissed off the the Transformers: Prime show now that I know about it for including zombies, so I suppose it's hard to say I p[lay that way either, but at least it's suitably mocking of the hands-around-the-campfire style I was subjected to for the duration while assisting. But, if it provides a bit of amuzement value, I'll consider my time to have been of some profit rahter than a mere break-even (since the filter did get changed.)

- 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

Real Life has blown up in my face, leaving me without the time or broadband connection to game.
Of course, I hope this disruption will be as short as possible, but when dealing with RL one also has to allow for factors that are outside of your control.
On the plus side, the probability that when I do return it will be on a computer that can handle the newer powersets and the like without lagging to heck and back has greatly increased.
I'll still be checking in here from time to time though...
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

I remember coming across a link to a pair of short Half Life fics, one of them written as a follow up to the other.

The first one had Freeman coming across a dying marine and going "Are you religious? Tell your god about me." And then ended with a line about "Sometimes, atheists just need someone to threaten."

The second one featured a rather bemused Freeman being welcomed into Valhalla and meeting that self-same marine there, who then said "I told my god about you. He liked what he saw."

Can anyone point me towards those?

Fun with the emotes: 

http://www.geekosystem.com/inglip/
I find it amusing that someone took reCaptcha phrases and tried to build a ... "coherent" narrative from it.
''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

has someone haxed Google so clicking on search results instead sends you to some "fibrosearch" commercial link-listings that gives you their paid advertisers for those terms instead of the actual page you clicked for?

Copying the green result URL and pasting it manually into a new window still works, but is annoying.

- 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