fandom being what it was...

...(and is), the term was adopted for the songs, and musical parodies enjoyed by SF conventioneers. Practitioners are known as filkers.

Congratulations, J-Bomb...you've got 6 months to live!

I swear to god, this is real.

NEW YORK, January 20, 2005 - Scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) have identified a new cellular oncogene essential for the development of cancer. Oncogenes are genes that, when mutated or dysfunctional, lead normal cells to become cancerous. The investigators have named the gene POKEMON (for POK Erythroid Myeloid Ontogenic factor). The work is being published in the January 20, 2005, issue of Nature.

Awh, he who sleeps beneath the waves is so cuuuuute!

Your horrendous retail link of the day: Kthulu Kitch!

Live from the third annual Dutch Open lockpicking competition

Arthurmeister throws an arm around Julian the Champ and laughs as only a Master of the Universe should. "Ja, life is good," he declares. "But tomorrow, you are mine."

Hardt smiles in concession. His eyes level at Arthurmeister's chest hair. "Arthur, tomorrow is tomorrow." Hardt says. "Why not have another beer today?"

...

"You're retarded," Tobias says, watching the neophyte wrestle with the pins. Tobias takes the lock and looks inside to make sure it isn't broken. It's fine. "I'll tell you how they teach it in covert-entry camp," he says, laying a hand on the poor picker's shoulder. "First, I stick you in a cage. Then I lock the door." Tobias straightens and smiles. "End of story. Trust me, it works," he says. "Death is a fantastic motivator."

Well at least he isn't a fucking zombie

Why does everyone like miniatures games so fucking much?

From Star Wars RPG Network:

"As many faithful readers know, Wizards of the Coast has halted the production of any new Star Wars RPG sourcebooks for the next two quarters in order to establish the Star Wars miniatures game in the market. While the future of the d20 Star Wars RPG seems uncertain, there is something you can do to both support Wizards of the Coast and make sure they know that you want more Star Wars RPG material."



Fuckers.

... dude, I am so high right now

Making Reruns of Television Sitcoms More Interesting by Adding a Weapon

Friends, "Rachel Finds Out"

Joey participates in a fertility study, but things get difficult when he has to avoid intimacy with Melanie, his new girlfriend. The gang has a birthday barbecue for Rachel, but Ross only shows up long enough to drop off her birthday present and announce he's going to China to buy something called a seven-point sword, a rare type of Chinese throwing star that was used as a deadly weapon in the days of warring states and feudal lords. Chandler and Ross secretly arrange for an underground dealer of rare Chinese weapons and torture devices to meet Ross in Shanghai in hopes of Ross being able to also purchase something called a Din Tektu Iron Talon. This weapon uses the tips of heat-forged iron nails and an iron brush to pierce and tear at crucial deadly acupuncture points on the enemy's body, intending not only to take his skin from his skeleton, but also to exact everything from cancers to dementia, as well as to lay waste to the enemy's spirit in the afterlife. Later, while Rachel opens her presents at the barbecue, Chandler lets slip that Ross has become secretly infatuated with a rare form of deadly Chinese personal defense called "Gon Chak" or "Death's Kiss." Gon Chak's grisly techniques and weapons (the Din Tek Tu Iron Talon is one of them) sparked ethical concern even among China's most violent warlords and criminals, leading to its being permanently banned from the martial arts in the 18th century. It would be rare for a Westerner to ever see a Gon Chak weapon, let alone lay hands on one. If Ross is actually able to purchase a Din Tek Tu Iron Talon, it would make him one of the most highly revered collectors of arms in the United States literally overnight. The catch: Ross may not know it, but by undertaking a journey to China to purchase Gon Chak weaponry, he is putting himself in the path of certain danger, not to mention an age-old curse that has claimed many before him. Rachel goes to the airport to catch Ross before he leaves and tell him that she heard the news from Chandler and wants to talk with him because she has similar feelings. Unfortunately for her, Ross has already left on what may be both a first and final journey down the bloody path of a passion few will ever understand in him. Joey finally lets the cat out of the bag about his fertility test with Melanie, who was starting to suspect he was gay.

bird steal gold! rargngrr!

yeah, it's a lowculture rip-off, and you are simply required to feel bad for once-studly vickcktor yukensheknkensko, but manohman is that ever funny.

Disturbing

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Would you donate all of your birthday gifts to charity?
no
jus something 2 think about

Right now someone is joining the 300 club at the South Pole.

Paint a self portrait some time this month.

Deviations from Nerd Canon

Okay, so i know it's no worse than the other comic book to movie translations, but the new Fantastic Four trailer?

C'mon, hollywood...it's like you're just not trying anymore.

What the hell?

XP is a sexy, dark-haired girl wearing the XP logo as a hair ribbon. As XP is sometimes criticized for bloating a system and being very pretty without being equally as useful, XP-tan wears very little and has large breasts.

and

Doctor Norton, an unspeakably lecherous old doctor, personifies the Symantec Norton AntiVirus software. While an ingenious physician, he is infamously known to request (and attempt) the total undressing of an OS-tan for a full physical inspection, even when they're completely healthy. The doctor's lust has no bounds, and his morality is void.

(from a random click off Firefox's Wikipedia page)

Waaaaaaarrrgh!

Part I of the many nerd-games of the near future: Gary Grizzylbyxs World At War

Play it loud, play it proud

And do so on a piano.

Your teen years' soundrack: Now in spanish!

So WHFS is gone. It's "El Zol" now. Discuss.

swrpg is tonite, 7.30, currently scheduled in hampden. if niff disembowels and eats one or more of you on arrival, i will consider moving it elsewhere.

this week's adventure:

'Disappearance on Phobis'

It's your time to shine

Here it is, your chance to belittle months of hard work in the nerd mines via a pithy one-liner in the comments section.

Blue Chairs

We can see you....

Go here and look into other people's lives. Their unsecured, broadcasted-over-the-internet lives.

Pompous game designer gets knighted...

So apparently it's now SIR Peter Molyneux. If only i could design games as fucking boring as Black & White.


Addendum: Dungeon Keeper was kindof cool.