"It's an inherent power, just do it!"

You have to watch out when you lean on publishers of satire...WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The White House is not amused by The Onion, a newspaper that often spoofs the Bush administration, and has asked it to stop using the presidential seal on its Web site.
They can always become more vulgar...

So, citabria and I were arguing discussing ellipses, after reading kgola's recent journal entry, so she challenged me. Okay, experiment: try writing typical "Kirk in quandry" dialogue without ellipses. So I did.Kirk looked at Uhura, furrowing his brow in confusion. "What," he started, then stopped, considering if he should have tried "Who," instead. "What do," ( Read more... )

Nut-cracking gorilla surprises scientists.

And one with a military background...

Zod in 2008When I first came to your planet and demanded your homes, property and very lives, I didn't know you were already doing so, willingly, with your own government. I can win no tribute from a bankrupted nation populated by feeble flag-waving plebians. In 2008 I shall restore your dignity and make you ( Read more... )

Flog the Webmaster.

GMs: The entire Intercon F ConCom, excluding the Webmaster.
Runs concurrently with other games at Intercon F.
Total Players: Min: 0 / Max: 200

You know what to do. Equipment will be provided.

(N.B. The problem on the web site has been fixed.)

"Hell. Too good for some evil bastards."

It's a legit billboard, using Georgie's picture, put up by New Zealand's Hell Pizza. And it's caused a bit of a stir in NZ. (And, doubtless soon in this country as we are all connected.) Raw Story has a different billboard pic but the same story ( Read more... )

It's like a Friday, so something amusing. The winners of the 2005 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have been announced. (The contest is simple, submit a bad opening sentence to an imaginary novel. The best presumably leave the judges tearing out their eyes, hair, etc., in their attempts to "not go there ( Read more... )

"This code hasn't been updated this century! It's not even in Sustaining Engineering anymore--it's supported by Assistive Engineering."

Oh, good, Georgie is going to try and pull a Reagan tonight. I shouldn't care but I'll watch or listen to it anyway. Some people slow down for car accidents. I get drawn in by political ones.

In the meantime, Scott Bateman is being both morose and twisted today. Both of these sketchbook exceprts speak to me. Hope he finds another gig soon.