Now that's using your ass. Absolutely correct and insightful interpretation of what happens when a British book property gets taken stateside for TV.

Still, The Wire was set in Maryland, and that show is great.

Shit son, I know who I'd put my broadband money behind, had I broadband money to spend.

While we're on shit that should be banned: fussy fucking goatees. Only two types of motherfucker have those, and they're either petty drug dealers or fucking shysters.

robo cheetah. Not steampunk.

My pedometer thing has recorded about 150 miles of walking since June. If you walked 10,000 steps a day, approx, it'd take 30 days to do that. It's all approximate, of course: 5 miles a day.

I've only recorded over 55 days, though. So I ain't doing too bad. Two miles a day plus average ain't too bad considering I don't demonstrably have a life or the need to move around.

The California roll guy was half-right, after three years of eating sushi, I still don't like nori. Or avacado for that matter. Scratch that, son of a bitch was wrong.

Christ am I depressed about the future of the Internet. It was fun before the law got involved, very similar to other mind expanding provisions back in the mid-20th, in that regard.

Well, I will not vote for New Labour, and I will almost never not vote against the Conservatives, so...

Oh, hello.

Hey look, a moron convention.

I just watched three minutes of one episode, the first, of The Wire. GENIUS.

Sometimes you just can't see for looking. What with all that sound and fury comin' from the tee-vee.

And that was about as far as I had planned this post. I know, some Whitley Strieber type action.

Also Sprach Zarathustra by Eumir Deodato.

Particularly enjoy that it sounds like The Critic theme tune.



Dog nappy? Why not seal it up to its neck in a plastic bag like a transplanted tree?

Incidentally, someone snarling "In her native GERMAN!" fills me with glee.

Not looking so face-like now is it, mothers?

Aww, I might mention Kropotkin's beard facetiously further down the page, but cripes, what a belter.



It looks like the cover of The Widow single with a cheery face.

At some point in the not too distant future I'm going to rip you a new fallacy hole.

He said, enigmatically.

"The legislation would require most Americans to carry insurance and provide federal subsidies to those who otherwise could not afford it. Large companies would have to offer coverage to their employees. Both consumers and companies would be slapped with penalties if they defied the government's mandates.

Insurance industry practices such as denying coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions would be banned, and insurers would no longer be able to charge higher premiums on the basis of gender or medical history. In a further slap, the industry would lose its exemption from federal antitrust restrictions on price fixing and market allocation.

At its core, the measure would create a federally regulated marketplace where consumers could shop for coverage. In the bill's most controversial provision, the government would sell insurance, although the Congressional Budget Office forecasts that premiums for it would be more expensive than for policies sold by private firms."

:-D

"It also imposes a tax surcharge of 5.4 percent on income over $500,000 in the case of individuals and $1 million for families."

Aww poor babies. Bahahaha.

Speaking of babies, wouldn't you know that it was the denial of expanded abortion rights that saved the bill?

Let's watch the Senate ruin it, now. Still, very funny news.

The mind works strangely. I had a mental image of William Hurt with a beard playing Leto Atreides. In fact he didn't have a beard in that role, it was Jürgen Prochnow who did. That and Leto is supposed to have a beard.

This has nothing to do with Dune actually, but funny how you can't trust your mind. That said, what I imagined was just as the reality.



Seen here on the left. Not sure who Beardy on the right is. Kropotkin? Hugo Chavez? Could be anyone.

Is there anyone addicted to womanizing who isn't also, and consequently, addicted to failing with women?

-- Momus.

Thanks Nick, that's funny.

Alan Moore would no more work for DC than he'd write an epic poem about the triumphs of the Thatcher government. So the question remains, is that superb irony on the part of The Onion, or is it geek fail?

Also, since I've been complaining about RPGs and Star Wars both - Obsidian entertainment made the best Star Wars incarnation in the world with their Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords - a game that was unfortunately ruined by Lucasarts rushing it out in an unfinished state so that it could get on the Christmas bestseller lists that year (happily a lot of half finished content was left hidden on the discs and has since been restored by fan mod patches, W00t). It's with no small satisfaction that I report that Obsidian are working on another RPG - a modern day espionage thriller.

I've wanted someone to do an RPG with a modern day setting for, oh, fucking forever. Given the choice between the generic high fantasy horseshit that Bioware are pumping out this month (Bioware originated the KOTOR brand BTW) and Obsidian's offering, I know which I'm excited about. Obsidian did their high fantasy game in the form of Neverwinter Nights 2, but they at least stuck to A D&D rather than trying and failing to reinvent the wheel with more of the same. They gots the track record and they gots the moves.

I'm delighted that they point out in the trailer that it's the first modern day spy RPG. Coz I'm like "I know!" /monica

Positively Alias-y.