Aieee!

This is the headline on Drudge right now.

What the hell man!? Is it Mr. Freeze or Captain Cold? How does one even ...oh.
It's a DRY Ice Bomb.

But...since dry ice bombs are ILLEGAL in California that's unpossible.

I would hate to be a kid in that state.

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9 new Dr. Who Episodes were discovered earlier this year in Nigeria. The remastered versions were screened recently and they will be available for sale this week on iTunes.

Amongst them are Web of Fear

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...to purchase Taken by the T-Rex has passed.

Via Instapundit we learn that Amazon, B&N and other E-Book publishers are removing all self published E-Books from their virtual shelves, while they go through them and discover if there is any designated naughtiness amongst them.

  Their statement ends with the conclusion that the website will be operational again "once all self published eBooks have been removed and we are totally sure that there are no offending titles available.” When that will be, they did not say.

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Episode 13 of RWBY is a very brief (5 and a half minute), almost perfunctory bridge to set up what will no doubt be the resolution of the Jeaune Arc arc cour next week.



  There are inconveniences, affronts and indignities that some will endure as they strive to achieve their dreams.  There are also lines that one encounters on the path of ones life that are not to be crossed, beyond which redemption is impossible or at the very best hollow.

The truest measure of a man is not how behaves when all eyes are upon him, but rather what choices he makes when he is alone, terrified and outmatched, where his doing the right thing will never be known and will result in the shattering of his dreams and public disgrace.

Jaune is a dork...but he's more of a man than most. 

It was also nice to see Ruby make an appearance in her own show...  



....and frankly that was a superbly done scene.

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Sarah Hoyt posts on how Harlequinesque erotica has been showing up in the darnedest places lately.  After some speculation as to why this is, she has some encouraging words for prospective authors by providing an example of....

of...

of...

Go read the whole thing.

No really, the WHOLE thing...wait for it....It will have an effect on you. I'm sure of it.

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Astronomers have discovered another exo-planet. However, PSO J318.5-22 is a bit different from most....this planet is not orbiting any star. It is an orphan gas giant that was either cast into space or somehow formed alone.

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Just a quick status update.
For those who are understandably disinterested, here is an unrelated image of 4 girls rotating.

  
^{Rotating damsels all from GJ Club.}

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Episode 2 takes a very brief break from the manic energy of the first episode for about 4 minutes of useful exposition and a big plate of mealworms, before fully recapturing the supersonic pacing and squalid depravity that so appalled us last week.


As an added bonus the show provides the most unsettling and painful looking magical girl transformation sequence in the history of...ever.

Ouch...
Ouch I say...

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Layers of fact checkers....

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2 Sorry about the blank comment - I tried to cancel (decided my comment was poor even by my standards), but I apparent;y failed...

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Suburban Banshee has an interesting post on the history of slavery in central Ohio.

The particular years she chose to focus on are 2008-2012.

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What in the HELL?
^{Via ACE}



FOX News reporting via tachyon beam from the FUTURE. The only newscast that conducts its analysis with 20/20 hindsight!

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No really....

A medical test being developed by Kuwait will be used to 'detect' homosexuals and prevent them from entering the country – or any of the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC), according to a Kuwaiti government official.

 

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J. Greely over at Dot Clue is reading the Miniskirt Pirates light novels examining the differences between them and the Bodacious Space Pirates anime as he goes.

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The latest installment is the cute girls doing cute things genre is a gentle, methodically paced tale that  follows a charming but haunted young lady who transfers into a new high-school where she knows no one. She struggles to fit in and find friendship by joining an after-school club populated with wacky misfits.

Please be advised that this is NOT a review of that show.

The show being reviewed here does involve a female transfer student which may have contributed to some confusion. However, if you're looking for a review of that show then you probably don't want to scroll any further. In fact you should probably move along because that show sounds boring and I'm not likely to review it this season.

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I've been struggling for some time with a couple of half written posts. However, while there is grist aplenty for them, words are failing me...there is just so much to address.

Don however, has summed it all up in one sentence.

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The other day I got off early and had a few extra hours between work and class with no pressing assignments looming, so I decided to clean the car. Unfortunately, the gas station I chose has no working vacuum. Thus I simply cleaned things as best I could organized the textbooks and papers that had gotten under the seats and decided to clean the trunk.

The trunk  was a complete mess. The toolkit and the various containers of stuff like brake fluid, power steering fluid and 5w30 were clustered in this big pile in the middle. TheWD-40 had discharged. Closer inspection revealed the bug out bag had sunk into the floor occupying the space where the spare tire should have been and the beaverboard floor-liner has curled up. at its edges and managed to pry open the first aid kit.

I started to clean everything out, beat the beaverborad flooring into some semblance of flatness, , got a box for the....
wait....
back up...
"space where the spare tire should have been".
spare tire...
SHOULD HAVE BEEN.
What the HELL?
I'm guessing it got removed and forgotten about when I had the radio installed, or perhaps when the mechanics at another auto-shop fixed the drainage problem...or when a mechanic worked on the tail lights wiring...or perhaps during an inspection. Which means that I've been driving without a spare for at least 6 months...
I drove to DC and Luray with no spare tire...
"shudder".
Well, an inquiry of all the places I've had the car worked on over the last year or so naturally turned up naught, so Friday I ordered a junkyard tire which should arrive at the local mechanics on Monday. In the meantime I've invested in a new can of fix-a-flat and I'm sincerely hoping that my trips to Norfolk today and tomorrow are uneventful.


(Picture is Unrelated)

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Because the Japanese see things a bit differently than us.

To wit...


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1 I'm a Terraria guy rather than a Minecraft guy, so it took me a minute to work out what it was.

Mind you, if creepers did look like that, I'd very likely switch...

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2 Did you get the Terraria update, Pixy?

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3 Yep, I've only had time for a quick look but it does seem interesting.  Enough to tide me over until Starbound and Tworraria.

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...this did not happen.

Jeaune has been something of an enigma. He's physically brave, but seems utterly out of his depth, both in combat skill and knowledge. He doesn't seem stupid (he can think on his feet ) but he is bonecrushingly ignorant. While his need to have even the most basic aspects of how magic and such works explained to him in small words has certainly helped to bring the audience up to speed on the show's fantasy physics, it rather beggared belief that this fellow actually got into an elite university that specializes in the very things he is most ignorant of.

Well...all that is explained by the fact that he got in via forged transcripts. It seems that (for whatever reason) he never made it into any of the fighting schools from which beacon selects its recruits.

It gets worse...

We find this out because he confess it to Pyrrha as she is explaining that she's got confidence in him because "anyone who made it into Beacon is worthy by definition".

This means that not only has he lied on his application (no doubt grounds for dismissal), he's also made Pyrrha party to his lie. Pyrrha has been assisting him with a saint-like helpfulness that frankly approaches co-dependancy...and now, well, given that she seems inclined to keep his secret (she offers to help him get up to speed) It follows that he's set her (and potentially his entire team) up for disgrace too.

But wait...there's more!

By the end of the episode, he's also being blackmailed.

I don't see how he gets to stay in the opening credits at this point.

 ^{"Yeah, I may have chosen...poorly. "}

All in all there was much better writing and character development than the rather perfunctory resolution to the Weiss/Ruby issue in episode 10. 

Of course since the episode was 7 minutes long, you probably spent more time reading the  post than it would have taken to watch the show so I have serious doubts regards the utility of the review.


 

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In amongst his closing thoughts on Gatchaman Crowds Don makes an interesting point I'd missed.

Shifting attitudes toward information technologies can be followed in anime. In 1998′s Serial Experiments Lain, the "wired” is weird, scary and dangerous. In 2007′s Dennou Coil, evolved Google Glass is a lot of fun, though occasionally still dangerous. In Gatchaman Crowds, smart phones and conscious artificial intelligence are taken for granted and are generally benign. 

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