If you think you can go to this site

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/doct...ews/radiophonatron.shtml

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I had a little trouble getting it to work, but it's worth the effort.

In short it is every major portion of the various theme songs for Dr. Who laid out so that you can "play" them in nearly any pattern you want.

Howard Melton

God bless

There are, as you're probably aware, quite a number of "Harry in Azkaban" fics. A sizable number of them - probably the majority - are of the subgenre "Harry gets betrayed by his friends and/or allies and sentenced to Azkaban" fics; no few of them involve Harry acquiring, awakening or otherwise receiving some form of power there (whether political, magical, or both), generally either by discovering a secret of the island or outright inheriting the place.

A couple of nights ago, those general scenarios rearranged themselves in my head into a new configuration, and now I'm wondering if anyone has ever done a fic in which Harry's friends and/or allies learn of the existence of such a power and conspire (probably with his knowledge) to get him sent to Azkaban, specifically so that he can pick it up.

Have any of you run across such a fic?

Also, since I'd rather not start a thread just for one question like that, does anyone have any other similarly offbeat takes on standard fanfic storylines? I think I may have a couple more in the background of my mind somewhere, but I'd have to do some work to dig them up.

(Of course, quite a few Halloween fics got their start as an attempt at just such an unusual twist on a standard storyline, to the point that I'm not sure there are any ideas left in that genre which are original enough not to seem like just a version of something that's already been done and are also still worth reading.)

I don't want to take away from the excitement from CoH:GR any. But my subscription ran out and while I spent a couple of days out of game waiting for the opportunity of funds to continue, I was playing Champions Online, which I had re-upped about a month back to check on. (And it's about to run out too. But that's ok. My sub for City of Heroes is back up.)
Anyway, while CO is still a bit light in the content department, it HAS improved. The devs seem to be making better choices now. I won't bore you with the details. But suffice to say, I think they got their heads knocked around enough by the playerbase to start listening. There's a lot of little tweaks that make the game a lot more fun to play. Some re-balancing of things. Melee's a LOT better now, etc, etc...
ANYway. Just by way of explaining what I was doing. So I was playing my usual main characters. But I was perusing the Eyrie Forums going through the archives (for what, I cannot now remember) when I came across this post right here.
And was INSPIRED.
And though my favorite game is still CoH. I KNEW that Champions - for this one thing - would definitely work better.
SO...
I present to you -
Gentleman Scientist!







Gadgeteering base stats and powers with a healthy dose of a few electricity powers on top. The Sparkstorm AOE attack (pictured in one of the above pics) is a PERFECT "Back off! I'm a SCIENTIST!" Power. HEE! ^_^
And yes - his battlecry WILL be some variation on "Wake UP! Time for SCIENCE!!"
^_^

That's right. There are three days before the launch of Going Rogue and Praetoria.

Batten down the hatches. The server capacity's about to get a little rough.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."

In a recent issue of New Scientist (of which I've been reading off and on, for years) I came across an advertisement for an intriguing competition. The gist is think up a new and interesting myth for the Mythbusters to test and gain geek points by getting mentioned on the show for coming up with it. You also get a 3 year subscription to New Scientist thrown in if your the winner.

As the topic says I'm currently stumped on an idea for 'em, the wise mustached one reckons they've got enough ideas to pull from their files/fansite for the next eight years. Oh and the link http://mythbusters.newscientist.com/ might not work in non .au countries. The way my mind will work, I'll end up with suggesting something that would put them on to international intelligence watch lists, like say just what really happens when a 1/2 critical mass amount of U235 meets another half mass of U235 at various velocities.

--Rod.H (who's newish keyboard has a sticky 'i')
"And it glows in the dark too....."

As in, who in the Fenspace collective?  Because I have a request for one.  The real Nina Avins has become a big Sailor Moon fan over the past year or so, and it seems likely that her fictional counterpart would, as well...  and you can probably see where I'm going with this.  I'd like to give real!Nina a treat, and make her fictional counterpart a Named Sailor.  Is Sailor Grover's Corners too unwieldy?  And what can I have her do to justify it?  (Because while I could see it as possibly being a political thing -- "they'll remember that we made their little girl happy and come if we need them" -- I think it'd be more satisfying if it were earned.)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Okay, I've let my stuff languish on the Wiki long enough.  I've GOT to do something about it.  So here's a list of things I'd like to fix.  If I'm missing something, would someone kindly let me know?

• Roughriders Portal - need to make one
  
• Roughriders (General) - needs a massive update... possibly become the portal page
  
• Pages for new branches of Roughriders: Roughnecks (Construction Batallion), HARDES (R&D, Science, Exlporation), Angels of Mercy (Medical, Search and Rescue, Disaster Relief).
  
• Updates on all ships
  
• Updates on all characters
  
• New pages for new ships and new characters
  
• Come up with rate and rank system for Roughriders
  
• Map out 36 Atalante
  
• Linking.  Lots and lots of linking.
  
• Edit old stories
  
• Write new ones

(Spotted on the SJGames forums.)

http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=28653]Karl Urban Confirmed For Judge Dredd - And he will NOT remove his helmet

A little early for details, but one can hope they'll do a good job with it.

[size=smaller](One thing's odd - that article is phrased in such a way that the people involved think there was a previous "Judge Dredd" movie. Or maybe just http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113492/]a horrible, horrible movie that took some names from "Judge Dredd" that I really want to forget...)[/size]
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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

So I noticed Dartz story post over on spacebattles and followed the included link to the wiki. Which led me here I've since been working on afew ideas. This is one of them, it is sort of rambling becouse I started with just the base vehicle and worked my way from there. I'd like to thank KaiserDrgn for helping me on the IRC with spelling as well as the other folks for leting me bounce some ideas off of.
I need to rewrite it down to the final product of the 'wavium treatment and use the building steps in the story. Still working on the character that goes with this craft I'll post that later.

The Shooting Star started life as a Modern Chris Craft 28' Cabin Cruiser. It
retains it's single forward cabin as the living place and the front
docking port based on the original bow deck hatch that's located above
the bed. A door at the rear comes out between the captains chair and
passenger chair. The chairs are raised with their own built in foot
rest/step. Behind them the stern seats have been removed for cargo space
while the whole area has been turned into a enclosed cabin using
paneling from a trailer. Former car windows have been added to the front
of the new cabin next to the chairs for added visibility.
A pair of pontoons from a old pontoon boat have been added to the sides
as outriggers to counter the added weight on the upper works. These
pontoons had their middle section removed to shorten them down. The
pylons holding the pontoons are a pair of 14' aluminum john boats turned
upside down with the stern section cut off. This ends up giving them
what looks almost like a bulky wing shape with the pontoons looking like
drop tanks when in flight. The stern sections from the john boats were
themselves cut up and used to serve as reinforcements on different parts
of the boat.
The Ship is fitted out with a old CB radio hooked up to a salvaged whip
antenna that is mounted on the upper most top of the ship. An old
desktop has also been taped to one wall below the Captain's chair with a
flat screen monitor mounted between the seats just above the cabin door
to the living area. The old stereo speaks that use to go to a sound system that was
long gone where wired into the computer. The whole thing is held together
by 'wavium imbued duct tape and all the paint based 'wavium Dakota could make.
The everything, inside and out, has been painted white using 'wavium paint,
with the name "Shooting Star" painted in black on the bow and stern.
With a shark tooth grin painted on the lower part of the bow. The
changes wrought by the 'wavium have made the whole ship look sleeker,
and the outriggers are retractable for hard surface landing by acting as
the landing skids when retracted. The engine having been coated in
'wavium has turned into a hydrogen powered anti-gravity drive. This
drive also creates the gravity field for the boat, including the bow
deck space, letting someone walk around normally inside and topside of
the boat.

The computer is now a fixed part of the ship while it's expanded beyond a normal
computer. It hasn't shown any signs of a AI thou people swear that the running lights
have winked at them when refueling or doing other maintence on the ship.
The monitor has expanded across the front of the Captain's console and
displys info on the ship status and works as a touch screen.
The Old CB has turn into a full coms unit intergrated into the computer
and sound system that also formed from the stereo speaks on the boat.
The ship does have a directional shield system that doubles as a heat shield.
This system throws up a semi-domed field of energy in the path of a attack to intercept it.
It can only have one up at a time and attacks from different directions can overload it.
This also means the ship is open to attack while it's being used as a heat shield.
The pontoons are now the main storage tanks for the water and oxygen systems.

quirks:

"Safety first!": There always has to be a life vest for everyone on board the ship or the ship will refuse to move when in port. Theres two on board in one of the under seat storage in the living area cabin.

"The gentle sea": The boat rocks gentle like it's on the water when at a stop and not on a solid surface. This doesn't seem to effect any airlock connections to the boat.

"We're gonna need a bigger boat": ... somehow there's never enough storage space on board for everything needed. It always ends up in the way or tripped over.

"Don't show the shark" Playing the jaws theme while inside the boat causes the boat to become somehow harder to spot. When the music stops the boat appears to be a badly made out of focus boat model at a distence for three minutes.
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Characters
Sabre Fang
Dakota

"MAYONAKAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" came Benjamin's voice ringing from his office.  "YOUR PET HAMSTER GOT INTO THE HANDWAVIUM!!!"

And thus, Harvey the Wonder Hamster was born. 
EDIT: Image didn't turn up right - made me wonder why this post didn't garner more attention.