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| slashdotorg | Jul. 7th, 2008 08:09 am Meet the New Chess Boxing Champion of the World http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/328688454/article.pl Attila Dimedici writes "A Russian man has just been crowned world champion in the sport of chess boxing. Apparently the idea originated in a French comic strip from the early '90s. In 2003 a Dutch artist decided to bring the 'sport' to life. The 'sport' is played by starting a chess match in the middle of a boxing ring. After four minutes, the chess board is cleared and the opponents box for three minutes. A match consists of six rounds of chess and five rounds of boxing. A match is decided by knockout, checkmate, or points."
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| dictionary_wotd | Jul. 7th, 2008 07:59 am gustatory: Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2008/07/07.html gustatory: pertaining to the sense of taste.1 comment - Leave a comment | |
darkain | Jul. 7th, 2008 01:22 am I'd hit it.... Need I say more???
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| questionablerss | Jul. 7th, 2008 02:29 am Ba Dum Bum Psssh http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1180 
Today's comic goes out to my buddy Theo who looks a good ten or fifteen years younger than he actually is.
So I saw Wall-E this weekend and goddamn if it is not the best animated movie I have seen in a long, long time. I exhort you to go see it if you haven't already.
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lordcorvuslupus | Jul. 6th, 2008 11:04 pm i am planning a camping trip in mid to late august to go up into the hills and act wild. there are a few areas that i remember fondly from childhood that i wish to revisit. this wont be on a campground or anywhere where there will be facilities. this will be off of the beaten path out in the sticks where the wild things are.
also i am well aware that ren faire is going on at that same time but im hoping that we can get all on the same page here.
so, if you are interested please let me know. Leave a comment | |
lordcorvuslupus | Jul. 6th, 2008 10:46 pm so back to being the bad guy... so were running ruins of greyhawk on saturdays, since i wiped the party co-DMing red hand of doom
but im adding alot of my own degsin to the campaign, considering that they randomize the levels completly.
and diane and debbie are probably going to want some actual roleplay involved in this paticular campaign..
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| talesofmu | Jul. 7th, 2008 05:21 am Announcement 2.0: I’m back. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TalesOfMu/~3/328592240/announcement-20-im-back http://www.talesofmu.com/story/?p=3125 Hey, all! Just a note to let you know that as of tomorrow (Monday, so technically today, but after I’ve gone to bed and grabbed some sleep), I’m back on the job. As I said on the MORE MU comment board, I’d call this vacation week poorly planned, but that would imply it was planned [...]
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[ everflow ] | Jul. 7th, 2008 01:49 am *blinks* ( comic July 7 ) Current Mood: shocked
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| slashdotorg | Jul. 7th, 2008 05:18 am Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/328592309/article.pl Reader Alex links to news of a study comparing the currency and patch level of various Web browsers, excerpting: "Firefox users were far and away the most likely to use the latest version, with an overwhelming 83.3 percent running an updated browser on any given day. However, despite Firefox's single click integrate auto-update functionality, 16.7 percent of Firefox users still continue access the Web with an outdated version of the browser, researchers said. The study also revealed that the majority of Safari users (65.3) percent were likely to use the latest version of the browser between December 2007 and June 2008, after Safari version 3 became available.Meanwhile, Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)'s Internet Explorer users ranked last in terms of safe browsing. Between January 2007 and June 2008, less than half of IE users — 47.6 percent — were running the most secure browser version during the same time period."
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amberite | Jul. 6th, 2008 10:01 pm My Interpretation of "Journey's End" and Abandonment in All Multi-Season Plot Arcs ( Spoilers, naturally. )
* Way, WAY different from Donna's ring. You can buy a replica of the Master's ring here, if you are wooby over the Master, unafraid of possession, and have £90 to spare. Amusingly, the hand model for their photo is wearing red nail polish.
** Way, WAY different from the Master's ring.
*** Like in your internet browser cache. More or less literally. 5 comments - Leave a comment | |
| apod | Jul. 7th, 2008 04:30 am Apollo 17 VIP Site Anaglyph http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080706.html  Get out your red/blue glasses
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| slashdotorg | Jul. 7th, 2008 02:15 am German Survey Company Loses 41,000 Survey Records http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/328487689/article.pl mister_woods writes "It's not just governments that lose private data. Germany's Chaos Computer Club (CCC) reports that market research firm TNS Infratest/Emnid has lost 41,000 private data records of their survey participants. By simply changing the customer ID number in the browser's address bar access could be gained to comprehensive survey results, including names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and much more sensitive data. A CCC spokesman described this as 'unprofessional, grossly negligent and above all deeply worrying' and sees this loss as a vindication for its calls for strict regulations for public and private sector data collectors."
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[ netpoet22 ] | Jul. 6th, 2008 10:50 pm Chapter 2, page 2 Sorry for the delay, life got in the way again. Ya know how it goes, no worries. :D This is one of my personal favorite pages, I LOVE LOVE LOVE how introspective Dottiar ends up in panel 2. Next page takes us back to the action again, we'll be starting each chapter off with a look at the "present-day" life this same way. Hope you liked it, and let's get back to the fun stuff. :D
As always, you can find us at two sites.
http://ttg.comicgenesis.com
http://www.dragon-artists.com/ttg
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| slashdotorg | Jul. 7th, 2008 12:33 am Giant Snake-Shaped Generators Could Capture Wave Power http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/328430974/article.pl Roland Piquepaille writes "UK researchers have developed a prototype of a future giant rubber tube which could catch energy from sea waves. The device, dubbed Anaconda, uses 'long sea waves to excite bulge waves which travel along the wall of a submersed rubber tube. These are then converted into flows of water passing through a turbine to generate electricity.' So far, the experiments have been done with tubes with diameters of 0.25 and 0.5 meters. But if the experiments are successful, future full-scale Anaconda devices would be 200 meters long and 7 meters in diameter, and deployed in water depths of between 40 and 100 meters. An Anaconda would deliver an output power of 1MW (enough to power 2,000 houses). These devices would be deployed in groups of 20 or even more providing cheap electricity without harming our environment."
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