http://www.usfj.mil/manga/

(Anybody got a scanlation? It isn't as if the original is under copyright, after all...)
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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

From Tor, of all people... Apparently, they're starting a graphic novel line.

(Mentioned in http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/20 ... rl-genius/]this CBR interview with Phil Foglio)
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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

A few fics have been on my mind lately, ones I saw in passing a while back, thought might have some potential, but haven't seen since and I can't find them again.
1) A webcomic of a Mario Bros AU.  The Koopas snatched Luigi as a baby and he grew up to be the right-hand man of Bowser.
2) Bleach, of the Ichigo ends up as Espada type.  The one I'm specifically thinking of has Harribel's canon trio of fraccion as Ichigo's crew.
3) Teen Titans.  Trigon apparently dropped the destroyer-of-worlds gig to become more of a Lex Luthor type, raised Raven, Starfire is her bodyguard.  Dick Grayson is in town for a business meeting with him.  Cy and BB get a mysterious gift of a genie (Jinx).  Cue intersecting courses and mayhem.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad.  In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.

If I every want to be Batman so badly that I hand over my personal information to a non-authenticated source I hope someone whips out a can of bat-anti-fat-sarcastic-canadian-bastard spray and puts me out of my misery. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/04 ... rvey_scam/

Down in Mexico to celebrate my brother's wedding. I must thank him for indtroducing me to Mexico in August.1 Now if you will excuse me, I must find water with which too cool off.
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Epsilon
1: By which I mean he must die. Preferably broiled alive like I am.

...that is WoW!

I picked up StarCraft 2 today and found inside the box, multiple cards of guest passes - two each for WoW & SC2. Anyone interested or is the philosophical disagreement for what the new management tried to do just too great.
Other than that why did I buy it, I like RTS's and I've been playing 'em since Dune 2 and have even finished playing the campaigns of some (Supreme Commander-series mostly for there I can turtle & curbstomp to my hearts content).

Codes, if wanted will be emailed.

--Rod.H (who's still yet to play StarCraft)
"I've got it here somewhere......."

I recently bought a new TV. The picture is good, but I'm not happy about the sound. As an experiment, I tried plugging my 2.1 speakers from my computer into the headphone socket and got a distinct improvement.
1) does anyone know if this is a good way to improve the output, or am I missing something better?
2) Can anyone recommend a system to buy?

WoooooOOOEEEEEEEEEEEOooooooooo!!!!

Body Mass Inex Calculator
I will admit to being obese. At 5'8" I weight 225 pounds in February. I just hit 200 pounds this week. The goal is 165-170 pounds. Should be able to do that in another 4 months. Tough though.
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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

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/03 ... ora_storm/

Quote:Astroboffins are warning that a mighty "eruption" of superhot plasma has been blasted out of the Sun directly at the Earth. The plasma cloud is expected to reach Earth beginning tomorrow, possibly causing strange phenomena - including a mighty geomagnetic storm which could see the Northern Lights aurorae extend as far south as Blighty or the northern USA.