Let us say, hypothetically, that I wanted to post a song online for other folks to hear, and said song could very well violate copyright laws. What's a good place for that ( Read more... )

If you would say you're rather familiar with the Beatles, but by no means an obsessive fan of the Beatles, take the time to listen to this song for a bit.

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Anyone out there really really familiar with Gimp?


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The other day I watched a very short thing involving "Cyberman Coming Back From Pub" (no link; it wasn't all that great), which got me to wondering about Commonwealthy folks dropping the occasional "the" (as often heard when talking about "going to hospital"). About the only times I've heard it dropped in American English is in the phrase "going to ( Read more... )

If you live in the US, you probably either recently have or recently shall file your taxes. As such, you probably have a rough idea of your yearly gross income.

So, dear reader, about what percent of your gross income goes towards health insurance (if you don't get job or parent provided health insurance)? About how much towards life insurance?

On my way to work today, I got to thinking about my "I Love the 21st Century" Greatest American Hero spiel. This side-tracked to thinking about a remake (which apparently they're planning, as a film. To quote wikipedia, "A movie based on The Greatest American Hero is scheduled for release in 2012. Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, and Will Ferrell are all ( Read more... )

Does anyone out there in TV Land (be it LiveJournal or FaceBook) have enough familiarity with Mike Gravel to be able to estimate how certain hypothetical policies might have turned out, had he won the 2008 US Presidential election?

PS: The "certain hypothetical policies" will involve vampires & suchlike things.

Recently, when someone running a game was running into problems, it came up in discussion that folks tend to like handrails; not walls, but easily jump-overable handrails. For an old-school RPG reference, think Gamma World. For a newer one, think of if a oWoD game allowed sentient animate chimerae as PCs. Both of these really allow you to make just ( Read more... )

In working on the fairy files for Windy City, my taxonomy lingo is coming short.

Basically, I see three big hypothesis..es (hypothesii?) for how vampires and were-things and all came about: One is that fairies did it (referred to on the above-linked page as fatagenesis, even though I was itching for an excuse to call it aeaeagenesis, since I love ( Read more... )

For those fluent in Russian (yes, I'm looking at you, Potapova, once this cycles through to FaceBook), what's a good translation from English of, "The crazy man shovels wood cheaply"Crazy" can have the negative connotation of 'idiot/naïve/ignorant', "shovels" is like with snow, "wood" is like firewood, and "cheaply" is like 'inexpensively' (as ( Read more... )