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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 03:33 AM


Equinox + 1
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Happy spring, northern-hemisphere citizens !

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Image of ceti ceti 03/20/10

Just finished reading His Dark Materials. Pretty good although the plot frays into loose end territory by the Amber Spyglass. Was struck as well by the third appearance in recent memory of a plucky and brilliant girl heroine as the central character, and a slightly older male hero as a protector-action dude (Aenea and Raul in Endymion, and Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow in City of Ember).

In Endymion and His Dark Materials, Aenea and Lyra are also messianic characters fighting totalitarian religious authorities.

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Image of Ruthless if you let me Ruthless if you let me 03/20/10

I'm playing Aliens vs Predator as a marine, on "nightmare" difficulty. The pings on the motion tracker are freaking me the fuck out.

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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 03:02 AM

@Ruthless if you let me:

Ping................. Ping................. Ping.................

Ping........... Ping........... Ping........... Ping........... Ping...........

Ping..... Ping..... Ping..... Ping..... Ping..... Ping..... Ping..... Ping..... Ping.....

Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping

Better start praying, dude....

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Image of Darklighter Darklighter 03/20/10

How do I follow up last night's choice of Hot Fuzz? Netflix has Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill on Watch Instantly.

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Image of Kevin Howell -The Unseen Commentor Kevin Howell -The Unseen Commentor 03/20/10

@Darklighter: I like to follow up Hot Fuzz with Point Break so that I can laugh really hard when he shoots his gun in the air.

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Image of Ruthless if you let me Ruthless if you let me 03/20/10

@Darklighter:

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Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. 03/20/10

@Darklighter: If you haven't already decided, yes, Eddie Izzard is almost always the correct choice.

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Image of Darklighter Darklighter 03/20/10

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Duh!

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Image of Bobbobins Bobbobins 03/20/10

@Darklighter: Can't I just reply to all? That's what I really want, but it doesn't work that way atm... Yes to Eddie Izzard. He is a wonderful, smart and funny man. Challenging idiots and showing them up for what they are simply by being himself.

Bobbobins - far too late to be of any relevance and really, really needing to go to bed. A bit like life..... :)

Sleep...... zzzzzzzzz

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Image of ObservantUnderachiever ObservantUnderachiev... 03/20/10

I just saw a commercial on Syfy advertising Merlin as a Syfy original series. Did I miss something?

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@ObservantUnderachiever: That confused me too!

ETA: [en.wikipedia.org] But that advertising still makes no sense.

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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 03:05 AM

@ObservantUnderachiever: Original to the SyFylis channel? I don't think so, since Merlin originated with the BBC.

And it's not sci-fi, but fantasy. Still, it's a pretty enjoyable show, in my view. I look forward to its return.

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Image of mamadragon49 mamadragon49 03/20/10

Well, I've always heard that if you don't know, ask. So I'm asking:

Can someone tell me what "posts," "messages," and "favorites" on my profile page are and how to use them? I would really truly appreciate the information. Thanks

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Image of Ruthless if you let me Ruthless if you let me 03/20/10

@mamadragon49: Check your "Messages" page now.

"Posts" are a page for people that have actually made a post on io9, or another Gawker site. So if you click on Annalee's name from a post, and then check her "posts" page, you can see only articles with her byline.

Favorites...You used to be able to "heart" a post, and it would show up in your "favorites" section. The article hearts have disappeared in the most recent site overhaul. I don't think you can add anything into this section anymore.

Hope this helps. I can explain more if necessary.

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Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid 03/20/10

Real Housewives of Witch Mountain

Gawker just posted biographies of the cast of the new 'Housewives of Beverly Hills' TV show and one of them is Kim Richards who starred in the Witch Mountain movies of the 70's as a child.

[gawker.com]

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Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. 03/20/10

Pixar's The Terminator.

Oddly more creepy than the original:

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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 02:13 AM

@Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.:

Awesome!

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#thisisawesome Click here to read Steampunk Dinosaur Madness in Luc Besson's "Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec"

Steampunk Dinosaur Madness in Luc Besson's "Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec"

You don't need to speak French to appreciate how awesome this trailer is for Luc Besson's latest SF flick. A brilliant, sexy adventurer named Adèle Blanc-Sec has discovered a dinosaur egg - and now a pterodactyl threatens steampunk Paris! More »
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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 03/20/10

Not a demand, only suggestions...

mamadragon49
[io9.com]

CuriousYellow
[io9.com]

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Image of AlexKap AlexKap 03/20/10

one step closer to growing organs for transplant:

[www.telegraph.co.uk]

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Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods 03/20/10

Caprica:
I was researching some graphics, and came across an article on Tauron tattoos.
And all you Sasha Roiz fans can thank me later:
[www.chicagonow.com]

#caprica

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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 03/20/10

@gods-n-clods:

And to think that people get paid to come up with these things... I'm in the wrong profession.

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Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods 03/20/10

@Roklimber: The tricky part... getting paid. The Imagination is a neato fruit to cultivate, but goes unused and rots easily, and despite it being a premium doesn't pull down the "bio-survival units" like it should.
Niche work is hard but lovable.

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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 03/20/10

@gods-n-clods:

"The tricky part... getting paid."

No kidding.

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Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods 03/20/10

@Roklimber: ...I'll give you some faux Tauron tattoos for some walkin'-around money... got any backyard fruit?
[like, literally making trades for bags of backyard fruit...]

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Image of Ruthless if you let me Ruthless if you let me 03/20/10

@gods-n-clods: Dude, I got some grapefruit. Yellow grapefruit.

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Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods 03/20/10

@Ruthless if you let me: Oh hell yes-- I am in V-town starting next week (back to work!) so you say when... I'll buy lunch. Still got my card?

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Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. 03/20/10

@gods-n-clods: I only got lemons, and you can have those for free, no tats needed.

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Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods 12:15 AM

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: I'd love them. Too far you are, if memory serves? You're in Bay Area?
I'm one of those SoCal weirdees you hear about (and it's strictly henna tattoos).
Now, if you mail a crate, know any truckers...

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Image of Scotland Scotland 03/20/10

#starthisperson: for petition-style demands that someone receive a star.

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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 03/20/10

Question for the powers in charge...

What's the best way to recommend commenters for stardom? There are at least two people who, in my opinion and the opinion of others, have consistently shown that they deserve their stars.

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Image of Scotland Scotland 03/20/10

@Roklimber: #starthisperson (Gizmdo recently created this tag- but it wasn't really advertised [gizmodo.com])

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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 03/20/10

@Scotland: Ah, thank you!

Now it's a matter of waiting for io9 to have something similar, or does that tag apply to io9 as well?

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Image of Darklighter Darklighter 03/20/10

@Roklimber: If enough of us start using the tag, the editors might start paying attention. Go, populism!

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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 03/20/10

@Darklighter:

I doubt that populism will work. I'm sure that Annalee, Charlie Jane and the other people in charge will be more careful than simply go with the majority. This isn't a democracy.

I still think the tag is useful, however, because they (the people in charge) surely don't read everything and may not be aware of certain star-deserving people.

Incidentally, our friend Scotland above has already created the corresponding tag for io9, here:

[io9.com]

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Image of Scotland Scotland 03/20/10

@Roklimber: Yesterday, I nominated 5 commenters.
Today, one of them has a star.
Coincidence? ...(almost definitely)

Gizmodo also has a tag called #trollpatrol [gizmodo.com] (a place to nominate trolls for banning.) However, in my experience io9 doesn't really suffer from this problem.

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Image of Ruthless if you let me Ruthless if you let me 03/20/10

@Roklimber: It might be good to reply to one of their comments in a post, with the #starthisperson hashtag. I don't know how often that they come in here. I've seen Annalee's trail in here once before.

Also, a couple of the mods might see it too and bestow the star on their behalf. I haven't ever seen them reply in here either.

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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 03/20/10

@Ruthless if you let me: Good idea.

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#bookcovers

Book Artists And Designers Pick Their Favorite Recent Covers

What's more amazing — the arresting loveliness of many recent SF book covers, or how different from each other they are? SFSignal asked artists and designers for their favorite recent covers. Here are a few of the ones they picked. More »
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Image of mamadragon49 mamadragon49 03/20/10

Evidence Indicates Humans' Early Tree-Dwelling Ancestors Were Also Bipedal
[www.sciencedaily.com]

I wish they had included chimpanzees and bonobos walking bipedally as well but this is really interesting.

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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 03/20/10

@mamadragon49:

Completely unrelated to this post...

Two questions that I've been meaning to ask you: did you get a chance to check out the book suggestions I made and, also, was my explanation of Abelian gauge theories reasonably understandable?

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Image of mamadragon49 mamadragon49 03/20/10

@Roklimber: I wanted to go back and copy your response into a word document so I could reread it a few times but I didn't do it at the time, ended up having a hectic week, and then couldn't find it again. Is there some way we can save things that we want to reread to our profile?

It's frustrating because, yes, I was making headway reading your explanation but now I don't know how to find the thread.

I think I was born asking "why" (no kidding, I remember a neighbor teaching me the alternative "how come" when I was five or six because I drove her crazy with "why") but chemistry and especially physics have always been difficult for me. I'm well educated but mostly through my own efforts and I think writers in those two fields rely on mathematical formulas and jargon more than people writing in other fields.

I love learning and I have always loved the sciences and I would like to have a better understanding of physics. I was very much impressed with the fact that your assignment was to teach physics to non-physics students and that you were able to respond to the challenge. So if there is any way to get back to that whole discussion, please let me know.

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Image of Ruthless if you let me Ruthless if you let me 03/20/10

@Roklimber: Book recs? What books?

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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 02:02 AM

@mamadragon49: io9 definitely needs a way to search people's previous posts (including, of course, one's own).

I had a rough idea of how long ago those posts were made (about a week) and, given the frequency of my own posts, I estimated that those posts happened some 500 posts ago.

Then, going to

io9.com/people/Roklimber/

and clicking on 'next', at the bottom, I got this on my browser's url box:

io9.com/people/Roklimber/?start=10

(I removed the http part of the links above so that you can actually see the links, or else they would be processed by the io9 server)

Replacing the 10 with 500, I skipped all the way back to about a week ago. Then, it was a matter of clicking on 'next' until I found the posts in question. It turns out they were in the neighborhood of 570.

I'm describing the above in such detail because, in the absence of a decent search feature, it's a good trick, if you can estimate how far back to go.

Anyway, here are the links:

My answer to your "elaborate on what strange means" request:
[io9.com]

My answer to your "why gravity and QM are not compatible" question, including the Abelian gauge theory and book recommendations posts (it's all in the same thread):
[io9.com]

You might want to go back to the top of the page and read from the start of the threads.

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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 02:06 AM

@Ruthless if you let me:

Please see my reply to mamadragon49, just above.

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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 02:33 AM

@mamadragon49:

Oh, and please note the corrections I made in the post following the Abelian gauge theory post. In the original post, when you get to the point of trying the rotational experiment with the two books, skip to the post following that, for the corrections. Otherwise, you'll get very confused. Sorry about that.

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#futurama Click here to read First Teaser Trailer For The Return Of Futurama!

First Teaser Trailer For The Return Of Futurama!

Thanks to the Panama Wormhole — which is a sort of Comedy Central Channel in space, Futurama is coming back in June! And here is the first trailer.
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#v Click here to read Why V's Reality Makes Less Money Than Its Promise

Why V's Reality Makes Less Money Than Its Promise

The ratings may have fallen during its four week run, but that didn't stop ABC's V from being one of the largest moneymakers on television last year. How good a position does that put the show in for next year? More »
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Image of collex collex 03/20/10

Yesterday, I rented and watched The Princess and the Frog, as I had not gotten the chance to see it in the theater. I wanted to know what you thought of it?

The nostalgia glass removed (I grew up with Alladin and The Lion King, so seeing a hand-drawn musical again? My god, was I happy), my opinion is that it's not the best movie Disney made, but it's a worthy instalment. My main problem with it was the villain: He is criminally underused and gets defeated before he can become a real threat.

Also, I found the love story between the two leads would have beneficiated from being a bit less subtle. There was no "A whole new world" or "Can you feel the love tonight", which was too bad.

My favorite song was Mama Odie's "Dig a little deeper". I can still sing it! The fireflies one was cool too. Oh, and Ray's my favorite character. And I loved how they called his love Evangeline, from the old Acadian story (I can't count the number of song that I've heard about her). And being billingual, a smattering of French here and there was well received!

All in all, I would say it rate close to, say, Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Very, very good, but not great. I hope they continue the trend of doing one hand-drawn movie every couple of years or so. I think one is on the slab, but I'm not sure. So your opinion on the movie?

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Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. 03/20/10

This dudes videos are kinda awesome.

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#space

Space Rays Might Be Responsible For Crashing Your Car

Click here to read Space Rays Might Be Responsible For Crashing Your Car
Toyota vehicles have been having a problem with sudden, uncontrollable acceleration lately. It's been variously attributed to faulty circuits and driver error, but the real culprit might be radiation from beyond the skies. More »
03/20/10
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