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This is for folk like me who've maintained their sense of dark humor as the US tries to pick itself up during a huge economic downturn. The stimulus bill did pass, and it did so largely on the strength of one party's influence in Congress (both in the House and Senate). A few Republicans crossed the aisle to vote for it in the Senate, but mainly the minority party had no interest in the project ...

It's possible some of you may already know abou this, and it's also possible that some of you have never heard of the all-women musical theatre troupe, the Takarazuka Revue. I was intrigued by the concept of a Phoenix Wright musical when I first heard about it, and toay Kotaku has a sneak peak of their performance. Not unerstanding Japanese makes it difficult to accurately determine how good it turned out, but it does seem ...

Nobilis is a contemporary fantasy role-playing game created by R. Sean Borgstrom. The player characters are "Sovereign Powers" called the Nobilis; each Noble is the personification of an abstract concept or class of things such as Time, Death, cars, or communication. Unlike most role-playing games, Nobilis does not use dice or other random elements to determine the outcome of characters' actions, but instead uses a Karma-based system for task resolution.

--Wikipedia Article

So, uhh... I ...

Brian is GMing a tabletop RP set in Gaera on Ka'thalar (details here), and I finally got the more detailed version of my character's bio written up yesterday. Maybe now some people will finally get an explanation for why the hell the party's fighter had his tongue cut out. He seems like a nice guy, but he must've pissed someone off, right?

So here's the story.

So, after years of saying I'd like to get my own place, then slipping into angsty whines on AIM when it fell through...

Sorry Jason/Ashley/Shaun/Dia/, by the way =(

Anyway! Barring some kind of major screw up, it appears I will soon be the owner of a small two-bedroom condo! My offer was accepted, and I'm just waiting on the seller to review the purchase and sale docs. If there are no major ...

For as long as I can remember, I've pronounced albeit as all-bite, more or less, using the same pronounciation of beit as the german arbeit.

I don't know why, especially considering I've watched countless hours of cartoons in english during my tender youth; you'd think I would've picked up the right pronounciation; all-be-it.

Just another instance of 'look how wrong it can get' when rarely used words slip through the net of the swedish school ...

Just a heads-up for the interested:

"Visit a participating Toys "R"Us store from February 8th to February 14th to receive the mysterious Pokemon Shaymin. Your new Shaymin will be in its Land Forme in your Pokemon Diamond Version and Pokemon Pearl Version games, but soon you can trade it to the newest Pokemon game, Pokemon Platinum Version, for an added surprise!"
-- http://www.pokemon.com/#news_/XML/news_345.xml

Most US stores will participate, ...

What do your minions have to say about THIS ONE?





Any dissenters can take it up with Myrnal.

So I've started following Indiana state politics. And it's absurd. I'm obviously not going to share any insider information (or at least, I wouldn't if I had any), but if you're following various blogs and whatnot, you'll get something like this:

Indiana has a billion and a half dollars it's been sitting on for a while. Meanwhile, our unemployment is a full point above the national average. Democrats are saying, "Hey, let's use that money ...

I know that there are people on here who are interested in American politics (whether they live here or not), but don't necessarily know where to look for things like this. So! Here's a rundown of what President Obama has started (at least the most thorough one I've seen, since a lot of places are still too arguing over the Chief Justice garbling the oath, and whether family planning resources help low-income families).

Executive Order ...