I got the link to this article from the Wednesday issue of my thrice-weekly emailing of interesting tech stories from the ACM:  a utility program that effectively lets you "unlock" application interfaces to rearrange or revise them to fit your own preferences or needs.  http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/5 ... nt-article]Article here.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Anyone been to Google yet this morning?  Or maybe I should say... Topeka?

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

284.
The truth revealed!  And Fate was oddly lackadaisical about security for this op.
...They put her in the damn haircut.  And she remembers it all.  This is graveness and it isn't even signature time yet.
...HUNDRED years?!  Hold the phone!  NOT NEGI'S AUNT.  SHIPPING RESUMES IN FIVE, FOUR, THREE...
I was right!  The first meeting with Nagi wasn't the capital disaster, that happened later.
Anya the Meido.  What depths she has sunk to.
And Asuna is BACK.  Screw the dark past, she's awesome!
Okay.  Total genocide because that's the only fair option.  What a bastard.  Someone get Simon in here to punch some courage into him!
The survivors would be transported to real-Mars.  Yeah, not good.  And I think we all can see where that event leads.
...And to top it all off, Fate is operating on HEARSAY that the Perfected World exists.
Yeah, this is a great plan.  Nothing could possibly go wrong.
Negi?  Scrap his ass.
--Sam
"Absolute power is a sticky wicket."

Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.621
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Click this DataLink to open the build!
Lithium Cell: Level 50 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Electrical Melee
Secondary Power Set: Electric Armor
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Mu Mastery
Villain Profile:
Level 1: Charged Brawl

• (A) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (9) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (23) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (39) Crushing Impact - Damage/Recharge
  
• (39) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance
  

• (A) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (3) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (3) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (11) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (29) Aegis - Resistance
  

• (A) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (7) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (23) Touch of Death - Damage/Recharge
  
• (37) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance
  
• (39) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage
  

• (A) Titanium Coating - Resistance
  
• (5) Titanium Coating - Endurance
  
• (5) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (11) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
  
• (7) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  

• (A) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage
  
• (9) Scirocco's Dervish - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
  
• (13) Eradication - Chance for Energy Damage
  
• (15) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage
  
• (15) Multi Strike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (17) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  

• (A) Titanium Coating - Resistance
  
• (13) Titanium Coating - Endurance
  
• (43) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (46) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Run Speed IO
  

• (A) Springfoot - Endurance/Jumping
  

• (A) Resist Damage IO
  
• (17) Resist Damage IO
  

• (A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
  
• (19) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
  
• (19) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance
  

• (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
  
• (21) Performance Shifter - EndMod
  
• (21) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy
  

• (A) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (25) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (25) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
  
• (37) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (40) Obliteration - Damage
  

• (A) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (27) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (27) Touch of Death - Damage/Recharge
  
• (37) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance
  
• (40) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage
  

• (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (29) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
  
• (31) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
  
• (34) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (31) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (31) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
  
• (40) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (43) Obliteration - Damage
  

• (A) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (33) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (33) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
  
• (33) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (34) Obliteration - Damage
  
• (34) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Efficacy Adaptor - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (36) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (36) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Recharge
  
• (36) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Accuracy
  
• (46) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Endurance
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (42) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (42) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (42) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (43) Devastation - Damage/Endurance
  

• (A) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
  
• (45) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (45) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
  
• (45) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
  
• (46) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
  

• (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
  
• (48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
  
• (48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
  

• (A) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (50) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (50) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (50) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/b ... d=10243784]Brain's Moral Compass Shifted With Magnets

Basically, MIT researchers were able to turn off people's morals by applying magnetic fields to certain parts of their brains. (For example, the response to a hypothetical event that could have killed someone but didn't was changed from "that could have been bad so don't do that" to "no harm, no foul".) When the fields were removed, the subjects' morals returned.

Miniaturize the gear so its wearable, put it in mass-produced helmets, and issue the helmets to your loyal underlings, and you've got an less-moral goon squad... No wonder the stereotypical Evil Overlords issue helmets with the uniforms they supply to their henchmen. Or force the henchmen to buy, for truly evil Evil Overlords.

(In Fenspace, this is obviously Boskonian standard-issue equipment. In an In Nomine game, Vapula's been busy...)
--
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

Ulta Mode is so pretty...

Positron Task Force is still a little glitchy, but there was a notable lack of a million Ruin Mages charging in to violate us.

Squee?
http://goingrogue.na.cityofheroes.com/e ... ideos.html

I give you the CW-AEC02X Strike Cannon.  Look upon it and weep. 
(A translation is here.)
As far as I can tell by reading the forums, this is legit.  And awesome.
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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.

I feel like there's sunshine
On my shoulder
I can feel its weight on me
It's not the sun
It's a ray gun
Shot from outer space
My eyes are plugged into the video
My ears are soaking up the audio
Your hands are all over my body oh no
And I get overstimulated
Plugged in ever since I was a kid you know
Interface by way of Nintendo
Brainwash propaganda on the radio
And I get overstimulated
My eyes are plugged into the video
And I get overstimulated
Your hands are all over my body oh no
And I get overstimulation
I feel like there's sunshine
On my shoulder
I can feel its weight on me
It's not the sun
It's a ray gun
Shot from outer space
Pong - Sunshine (can be heard on their myspace page)

The first and last stanzas are clearly about an orbital laser. An "interface with technology" thing seems to be appropriate for the middle bit.
So: Doug hooks up to the local satellite network (if there is one) and also gets his own personal space laser.

Peggy and I are in the beginning stages of setting up a multimedia library database under SQL Server to catalog our books, DVDs, CDs, etc.  We did this once for just our library about 15 years ago, when our collection was only about three or four thousand books, using DataEase.  Now we want to catalog everything -- and use it as a chance for me to get a good amount of SQL Server experience.
The question I have for the community at large is this:  Although I'm currently designing a db to handle all our different media, it would make things much faster if we were to use a pre-existing design.  Does anyone know of an open/free library database schema capable of handling multiple media types that we could make use of?
Thanks!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.