Ben has his Blue Hair Moments.  Nowhere is this more evident than when he created the Sonically Driven Matter Displacement Device, or, more colloquially, the Boom Box.
It started out innocently enough.  Ben was attempting to create a device that would turn any solid surface into a high definition surround sound speaker.  The prototype would work, up until the first 'big sound' (usually an explosion or a particularly loud chord), then the surface would be destroyed in a spectacular (and, incredibly enough, fiery) explosion.
The device itself is resilient.  It can be reused numerous times without ill-effects.
Ben's preferred soundbite: a huge, deep, and distorted voice screaming, "Kick out the JAY-UUUUUUUYYYMMMS, Mother-f*****s!" followed by the infamous Chord From Hell.

This was the tornado that hit Birmingham


The biggest concern right now is search and rescue. That and restoring power.
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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

City of Heroes is now officially seven years old. 7!
Here's a nice write up. (With discussion here) Let me just say this: 42 MILLION Characters! No wonder I couldn't get some of those names I wanted!
To celebrate: Certain stuff is half price including transfers and renames
Anniversary Address and Producers message.... here
Oh and Praetorian Surge to hit live servers!
We now return you to your regular scheduled chaos.
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Edit to add: STEAMPUNK Booster incoming!

A short talk on Thorium reactors. Could be promising.

They call it http://bookcountry.com/]Book Country, and it seems to be an online writers' workshop/community/distribution channel intended to nurture starting genre writers until they get good enough to get noticed by a publishing house... like Penguin.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-t ... ction.html]Publishers Weekly article on it here.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

As the topic says I am about to leave to see one of the last shuttle launches ever (If not the last one, spare parts problems and all of that). Will anybody else be there?

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E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

They're having a reader poll over on The Register for "the best sci-fi film never made". Looking at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/27 ... ovie_poll/]the list of 50 candidates, I'm thinking there are a lot of choices that are good books but would make terrible movies...

(And, having just voted, I see the current leader has more votes than the next five titles put together. No big surprise - it would make a good movie now that the state of CG is up to the task.)
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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

In an effort to not derail the warriors thread in the DW section, I'm posting further discussion about the cake being anything here.
E:  A brief conversation with my sister resulted in the change.
That is not cake which can eternal rise
And in strange ovens the Cake is a Pie.

...in particular Charlus Potter, who may be Harry Potter's grandfather or great grandfather, because I wanted to find the source for his existence.  I found it -- material by Rowling external to the books -- but I also found that someone has been having fun with http://www.geni.com/people/Charlus-Pott ... 9311028214]a geneology site.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Hey Bob? Been lurking in Mark's topic over in the DW general forum. When he posted the Shadowwalker pics, I logged into CoH to tinker with the costume creator and see if I could come up with another version of Shadowwalker. IIRC I tried to do this a few years ago, but neither the costume pieces or the powers available would match the concept. 

Well now we have Sonics. And if you made her a defender, you could have Sonics/Sonics. So that part is covered. 

But I was surprised when I went carefully though the options and noticed one I had TOTALLY MISSED. And I'm pretty sure it's relatively new. It's an Eye Option (Detail 1) called "Sonic Vision". 

Holy crap! 

(YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN) IT.... COULD... WORK!!!!! (/YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN) 

Ahem...

Anyway - here's a screenshot or two. 





What do you think? More importantly - what does Peggy think?