The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/20 ... ogue_ipad/]Playboy sneaks NAKED LADIES onto iPad

I was wondering when (not "if", when) Apple's "no porn" rule would be circumvented - looks like it's "now". Cue Rule 34 and the Avenue Q soundtrack...
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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

The granddaddy of all the chick-magnet indie-comic fantasy stories, http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics3.html]ElfQuest, is now available online - free and (mostly) complete.

I remember buying some of these in dead-tree editions a couple of decades ago...
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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

Saw this on the VirtueVerse main page when I went there to work on one of my pages:
Chance to get a billion inf...
All you have to do is make a VirtueVerse page and submit it. Got to end of the month. Details here.
Anyone going to make a Riot 6.1 page? I have enough to do atm with all my characters that I'm in the process of writing pages up for ... so Not It!

the Power of STEAM!!!!!!!!
probaly one of the packs I'm more really looking forward to, mainly because it means I can finaly make some old costumes work right!

From the Guardian:
"The flying pips, shattered shells and wet shrapnel still haunt farmer Liu Mingsuo after an effort to chemically boost his fruit crop went spectacularly wrong."







































Exploding watermelons put spotlight on Chinese farming practices

To celebrate his second Juno (the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy), Old Man Luedecke is giving away his first, long out-of-print, album Mole In The Ground. http://oldmanluedecke.ca/mole.html]Download the 41.6MB zip file here.
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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

The Indiana State Supreme Court has ruled, 3-2, that the Fourth Amendment no longer applies to Indiana.
According to the recent ruling, a police officer may demand entry into any private home, for any reason whatsoever explicitly including "no reason at all", and the homeowner and residents have no right to refuse, resist, or reject his entry.
http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/pd ... 101shd.pdf for the actual text.
I quote:

Quote:In sum, we hold that Indiana the right to reasonably resist an unlawful police entry into a home is no longer recognized under Indiana law.

STILL NO FLYING CARS, BUT A TRICORDER IS LOOKING MORE LIKELY:
“The competition is modeled on earlier incentive programs such as the
$10 million Ansari X Prize for private-sector spaceflight, or the $10
million Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize for super-efficient
road vehicles. The basic idea is to encourage the development of mobile
devices that can diagnose patients at least as well as a panel of
board-certified physicians.”

(Edit: Just realized perhaps this should cross-post to Fenspace?)

PvP has been running a 1940's-style LOLbat story all week. http://www.pvponline.com/2011/05/02/fon ... formation/]Here's the first strip.

It's no "First Wave", but it's fun...
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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

The Library of Congress has opened up its music collection online (well, at least part of the public domain collection is online), and wrapped a playlist function around the files. They're calling this service http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/]The National Jukebox.

Plenty of ragtime and some opera at the moment, but they're promising to add more music...

Edit: Oh, I love this site already. Under http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/genres]Genres:

Quote:Ethnic characterizations

This heading is used for works that incorporate ethnic or regional groups as subject matter. Text and music may involve characters and/or musical elements that reflect attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs associated with ethnic and regional groups at the time the selections were written and performed. These characterizations may utilize outmoded and offensive stereotypes of nationalities, religions, or races.

Find Ethnic characterizations recordings