The following koan posesses the Buddha nature:

Blue medium, green medium, red small. All erect and placed next to each other in order blue, green, red.

The following koan does not posess the Buddha nature:

Blue medium, green large, yellow medium. All erect and placed next to each other in order blue, green, yellow.

Students?
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

Actually, ten balloons go up in various locations in the United States at 10AM Eastern / 7AM Pacific Saturday. The first person or team to find them all wins $40,000.

This is your tax dollars at play - http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/default.aspx]it's how DARPA is celebrating the Internet's 40th birthday.

I'm not in the 'States, so I'm not interested in this. Any of you folks south of the border want to get together and find the balloons?

(And, yes, they're red balloons. Just 10, though, not 99...)
--
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

Live-eviL has finally made it to episode 22.

And hell has finally frozen over - the longest-running subplot in the entire series (it started in the very first OAV episode) has been brought to a conclusion.

Now all that's left is the comedy-relief episode 23, and the hopes that (like Season 2) Full Throttle will get picked up and released professionally...
--
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

Both by Splashdown.

Elvis Sunday

What's that you say?

I've fallen into rewind and hit replay.

Under the maple shade, unafraid

Back on 317 Beckwith Street again.

Our only one crusade,

To build a fortress so we could hide away.

My home

Had to leave behind

Didn't like the change so I'd kick and cry

Never liked the changed, had to leave behind

'Cause that decision was never mine,

Never mine

I'll still kick and cry.

Yeah, I'm still kicking and crying, yeah

Guess I'm still kicking and crying when it comes to

Good-bye.

What's that you said?

I'm still poking around the neighbors' hedge

Under the window ledge, someone said,

"Hold her hand when you near the driveway's edge."

Our only one crusade,

We never did get to build our hideaway.

My home

Had to leave behind

Didn't like the change so I'd kick and cry

Never liked the changed, had to leave behind

'Cause that decision was never mine,

Never mine

I'll still kick and cry.

Yeah, I'm still kicking and crying, yeah

Guess I'm still kicking and crying when it comes to

Good-bye.

My home

Had to leave behind

Didn't like the change so I'd kick and cry

Never liked the changed, had to leave behind

'Cause that decision was never mine,

Never mine

I'll still kick and cry.

Yeah, I'm still kicking and crying, yeah

Guess I'm still kicking and crying when it comes to

Good-bye.

Pretty clearly a gatesong. The "children-moving-away" aspect would probably make it appropriate for the Sana-chan no Omocha step.

...it's a good, clever song, and I can't think of anything less broken for it to do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY06IgyN_RM

If I remember correctly, Doug doesn't understand Latin, so the original "Libera me" being sung in the song won't have any effect. The rap,
however...

I'm thinking that the laws of physics, the guidelines of what is and isn't possible, become more like suggestions. With an act of will, anybody inside
the AoE can 'do the impossible'; the more impossible whatever they try is, the more willpower is required.

The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relationship ... -find.html]Scientists fail to find a male university student who hasn't watched porn

This is a surprise?
--
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

...if translations for the "Rocket Girls" light novels are available anywhere on the Web? I've been looking for them on and off since we saw the
anime, and so far have had no luck.

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

Picked it today for $20 off of Steam. It's a zero-G shooter set in the mid-21st century after an explosion on the moon sets two groups (the International
Space Agency and the MMC, I can't remember what it stands for) against each other. A lot of fun, if disorienting at times, and very very pretty. It's
multiplayer only, although considering the amount of backstory that's given during the loading screens the setting could be pretty sweet for a single
player game should Futuremark decide to do one. Sadly, it's DX10 only, so you need either Vista or Windows 7.

Linky

Charles Dickens' only manuscript of A Christmas Carol, online and very lightly annotated.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

First up: A Pokemon/Left 4 Dead fusion


''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll