I think all of you had heard of the Russian spy ring that got broken up this month. There were 2 things that came thru my mind:
1. Better the spies you know than the ones you don't.
2. It's amazing that the FBI was able to find and track these folks for a decade. But considering some of them had facebook photos of them on the web, makes me kinda wonder whether it was good spycraft or not.
The paranoid in me keeps envisioning Islamic sleeper cells here in the States. If you recall the story of the Hashashin, it might not be so far fetched. Granted the Hashashin would had scorned today's fedayeen suicide bombers as being crude amateurs, but you have to wonder.
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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

Dear god this man is funny. ^_^

I was looking at the backup software I currently have running, and as far as I can tell, the crash restoration portion of the program is disabled for free users.  It's there in the program file, but isn't actually linked up. >
Could anyone recommend a backup program that is not too complicated, has crash restoration, is reliable, and is free?  I'm currently running Windows XP.
Thanks.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

http://www.wtam.com/cc-common/news/sect ... le=7342270]October 8, 1939 - July 12, 2010

Mr. Pekar was one of the first successful independent comic artists, publishing the autobiographical American Splendor...
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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

Ahh... My inner geek just chirped in joy. Wait... who am I kidding? There's no "inner" about it!
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8 ... 76b970b-pi

...because it seems I was banned.
No, I don't know why.
Yesterday, I tried to add an entry to a page.  I'd put my entry in and preview it.  It would look okay, but when I hit 'Save', it wouldn't save it.  I admit I probably tried it a few too many times, but none of them did anything.
Today, any page on tvtropes.org gives me nothing but an error 403.

Has anyone ever noticed this before? http://www.youtube.com/user/WizardWalk
This guy has some pretty awesome sounding music - I'm thinking of using some of it as soundtracks for my fanfics... with permission, of course.

White woman repeatedly detained for being a black man at Canadian border crossings.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

...that everyone pictures incorrectly.
I actually knew three of these.  How about you?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

The Periodic Table of Swearing.
(NSFW, in case it ain't freakin' obvious.)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.