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How to destroy a screenplay (Nottingham)
Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog, and my friend has a book
Quick hits - LoLMuse
Decent home with an amazing lot
This will be important when they make my Cyclone
Mobile phone microscopy - a brilliant adaptation of existing technology
Ant colony rescue teams
How to: Make a laminar flow chamber
Free something or another
I am inordinately pleased...
San Diego Comic Con 2009 - Blackest something
San Diego Comic Con 2009 - Sunday
San Diego Comic Con - portfolio review
San Diego Comic Con 2009 - Saturday
San Diego Comic Con 2009 - Friday
San Diego Comic Con 2009 - Thursday
San Diego Comic Con 2009 - preview night
Supercolony
Local ecology
Long Beach Comic Con
Old television: Exosquad
New television: Southland
A PSA and a trailer
"Fiercely insulting"
Series complete
Quantifying Battlestar Galactica
BSG complete
NPH
San Diego Comic Con 4-day passes almost sold out
More often drums than pipes
NYT graphic bestsellers
My moderate interest in Watchmen
Scaling in genome sequencing
Pride and Predator
Nanobacteria that aren't
Recommended reading - Midnighters
How to prepare a cuttlefish
The music in the wood
Where Koreans come from
The Graveyard Book wins the Newbery
Have something to say
Recommended reading: Gotham Central
Recommended viewing - Waltz with Bashir
Delving into my hip-hop history
Crisis on Infinite Final Fantasies
Ping Pong Playa
Worst logline contest
Apparently, Jim Davis is pretty laid back
San Diego Comic Con 2008 - Pushing Daisies signing
San Diego Comic Con 2008 - The Pushing Daisies panel
San Diego Comic Con 2008 - Wireless
Charming honesty in genome annotation
Stormy and Beau
San Diego Comic Con 2008 - Saturday's gone
Comic-con 2008 - Four-day passes sold out
Oh, that was terrible
Amazing Fantasy to the LoC
They read Perelandra, too
Coffee for a bad week
Don't buy this book
Where things were chewed on, edible or not
Appropriate, really
2008 Eisner nominations are out
Guitar is easy
Fortune looks to rent as a guide to housing markets
Good Friday
Jean-Claude dances
This is not a romantic comedy
Continuity, again
Wondercon 2008 is this weekend
Tiny little Zentraedi...
Wheatonesque
Cultural illiteracy for the loss
The shadowy specter of continuity
Tailored to my specific needs
Most-read authors
I Am Legend - Brilliant
This would have made the show more interesting
What's up with those non-embryonic stem cells
You can see where I learned my vocabulary
Echo!
Handing off some content
"A Game of Dune"
States informs the new Standard
How good is your mana?
Decks for CTL-X Standard
Rethemed games
The first two Pro Tours of 2008
lolconference
The strange journey of Saffi Eriksdotter
The final PT Valencia roundup
lolcat Bible
2007 Magic Invitational
More context-based ad hijinks
Final PT Valencia roundup -- Melissa DeTora
Pro Tour Valencia finals
Pro Tour Valencia semifinals
Pro Tour Valencia quarterfinals
Pro Tour Valencia, day one
Pro Tour Valencia
Heidi MacDonald wants more storytellers
On shaky ground
Open submissions seasons is on at Wizards
What is this?
Homicide in Mountain View
What do five "o"s get you?
Quirks of our trip
Standard designs (Rav, TSP, 10th)
Grand Prix San Francisco, day 2
3:10 to Yuma...enh.
Grand Prix San Francisco, day 1 -- spectacle, if not success
Writing question for the day
PTQ Valencia - AAR
Perpetually in translation
Is that the gene of interest? Really?
Comics: Evenfall, by Pete Stathis
Where did that DNA come from, really?
My annual Madison excursion
Time Spiral block decks
Something potentially maladaptive
A pterosaur is not a black skimmer
Resolving an in vitro / in vivo discrepancy
Day Four: One panel, lots of walking
Interlude: French police dogs
For Tim
Day Three: I am not an amateur champion, but I have many photos
Day Two: Neil is awesome, Star Wars less so
Day One: Never mind, it is that bad
Day Zero: Mild, dawning horror
The longest threads come from orthogonal thinking
Tenth Edition Inventory
See, now that's a neat result of a weekend hobby
Think twice, build once
Amyloidogenic foie gras?
On the road to synthetic geckos
Flickr populr
More Magic: 2007 Amateur Championship
Block tournaments for the rest of summer
My first insurgency primer
How to pass the bar exam
More Clone Wars
Seedless cows
For aspiring writers
Girls aren't reading comics, you say?
Weez in ur Keep, makin sum Kobolds (my first Pro Tour Qualifier)
Infernal Affairs versus The Departed...um, what?
Creative outlets
What do you play?
Current decks in Standard
How long will it take me to charge my hamster?
With my infinite time and money...
Spider-Man 3 (dissenting opinion)
Upcoming major Magic events in the Bay Area
Tour our fine bunny establishment
Uncle Splinter leads the way
San tokidul
My first Magic prerelease
Preaching the good word of helplessness
Now that's national pride
Now there's a role model...
Adorable dogs, cool science
Documenting Endangered Languages
Say hello to our new neighbors
That's not quite what I expected
More reasons to like the nice folks at Wizards
Brain-burning cuteness
Laudable perspective
Time Spiral mid-block decks (Time Spiral + Planar Chaos)
Standard decks, vol 2 (Ninth + Ravnica + Time Spiral)
Ninth edition inventory
Ravnica inventory
Coldsnap inventory
Time Spiral inventory
Standard decks
Bunny Steeplechase
Time Spiral block decks
Some Standard deck archetypes
Coldsnap decks
South Bay Magic tournaments, March, 2007
Ravnica block decks
Car versus train
Seven Coins -- life advice hidden in a gaming article
Sentence structure
Arrow Financial Services getting its due
Southwest back at SFO
Magic on YouTube
Games: Tinker and build list
Magic - Ravnica + Time Spiral
The next Lego video game...
A well-centered postal employee
Hardcore
Magic, ebay, Paypal
American Born Chinese wins big
Little Miss Sunshine wins PGA Best Picture
A sign, perhaps, that you should wait to have one
Practiceganda
Unnatural
El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)
A (live-action) Avatar movie
Five hundred miles
Houseruling Star Wars Starship Battles
The tarrasque economy
Gingerbread!
Bay Area housing market slumps (sort of)
Missing the point
The cute
How to awesome-up your players
The burgeoning PDF market
It's more of a snow totem, really
Snowmass, CO
Snow!
Dart moves on
Wuxia Pope
101 >>>> 5
Star Wars Starship minis are go
Straight out of Ottawa
Big, bad comics review roundup - Tag & Bink, Tales of the Vampires, The Authority: Human on the Inside, The Middle Man, Harley & Ivy: Love on the Lam, Emma Frost (vol 2), Arrowsmith.
"50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002"
Kobolds lead the way
Back in the lab II
Micro livers -- cool, but not that cool
Back in the lab
An insider reviews Star Trek
Star Wars Spaceship Battle setlist and some stats
Arkham Horror compressed 60:1
More toys: Stars Wars Miniatures - Starship Battles
A markedly different interpretation (Persian, Vedic, Islamic and Yazidic views)
I rock!
I am just fascinated by your cooking
Comics: Socom: Seal Team 7 vol I
More Nintendo and some GW bits
Motivated individual
Comics: Apocalypse Meow, Justice League Adventures
Neighbors
Chimpanzees can deal with our mess
PLoS Biology: August highlights
What can't I mail?
Reviews: Action Philosphers, Red Son, War Machine, Outsiders
I have now heard the Pokemon theme in French...
PLoS Biology: July highlights
Bounty Hunters images (the next Star Wars minis set)
Morning rescue
Wholesale collectible gaming
Star Wars minis campaign play rules
Morning workout (Kendo)
Anniversary gift list or Dungeons and Dragons treasure table?
Giving blood
Comic Con, day 4 (Sunday)
Comic Con, day 3 (Saturday)
5 north -- Pros: Richard Hatch; Cons: Hideous traffic
He could have been hurt...
Go Sukhoi!
Comic Con, day 2 (Friday)
Comic Con, day 1 (Thursday)
Comic Con -- Day 0 (preview night)
Cavaillon in San Diego
Arrow Financial Services -- incompetence
It's all about Scotland and Korea
Time for the Stars, the movie
What to do with infinitely regenerating things
Parkour
Advertising for the King
East and other East
Bunny life: defeating the closet door
Maybe not Lockheed-Martin
Books and games that aren't on the move
Champions of the Force figures and stats
Armor up!
"Mine is!"
Orange County
Mad dirt disease
Your fiction threatens my religious beliefs (apparently)
Kendo terms
Mechwarrior: House Steiner
Mechwarrior: Pilots, Gunslingers, Gear, Missions, Faction Pride, Situational Alliances and Planetary Conditions
Mechwarrior: Rasalhague Dominion
Mechwarrior: Bannson's Raiders
Write Now! #2 (Larsen, Berkowitz, Alcott, Nordling, Bernstein)
Mechwarrior: Jade Falcon
Mechwarrior: Spirit Cats and Nova Cats
Mechwarrior: Mercenaries
Mechwarrior: House Liao and the Combine
Mechwarrior: Loyalist forces
Comics: Ballad of Sleeping Beauty, Rambam
Star Wars IV-VI, sans changes
Die cool
Photon torpedos and phasers
The Thief of Bagdad
Race when there are no constraints
True West and what a character needs
The price of old things
"...we won on the spirit of the law."
Selling nostalgia
Star Wars -- draw by movie
Hines Ward in Korea
Kendo, first match
SF wargaming rules for my Mechwarrior figures
Kendo, first day of gettin' hit
Because all Asian cultures are the same...
Pocket Space Hulk
Warhammer 40K roleplay
Card planes advance into a new generation
Korean Men World's Most Selfish in Bed
Spirit limps onward
Write Now! #1 (Bendis, Stan Lee, comics vs. movies, etc)
Credit card companies, paragons of responsibility
Joss Whedon - Goners
What wasn't: Global Frequency
Caught Creatures
Ed Brubaker redeems the Authority
Mars lets another probe live
Sick, not sick
Inspiring confidence
Updating tag info
Free Ars Magica
Batman! Factory!
A weak lawsuit
Lego: Vikings and Anime
Shin Jae-in
How Gold is your medal?
Trying to remember that one Lego set?
Figure snarking
Phil Brown, 1916-2006
Sheriff Lou Ferrigno
Wondercon day three: Comatose
WonderCon day two: general update
More Lego Star Wars
WonderCon day one: Greg Rucka
WonderCon day one: Lucasfilm Licensing
WonderCon day one: first impressions
Hapa power
Real estate estimates
Blocking pre-approved credit card offers
San Diego Comic-Con attendance stats
The five-paragraph-format love letter.
Stormy and Beau at rest
Comics: Demo, Ultimate X-Men Volume 12, New Avengers Volume 1
Product review Mad Libs
World Combat Dating
My new buddy movie...
Best custom minis ever, and seeing names I know
Comics: Planetes, Ocean, Ultimate X-Men
More fraudulent nonresearch
Coming in Mountain View in 2006
Comics: Star Wars Visionaries, Temporary, the Hiketiea
Top ten computational biomedicine challenges
Be in the next HP movie
Spectator paintball
Mus musculus vengeance
The Go Team
What causes kidney failure? Obesity.
What makes you happy? Effort.
Review: Turtledove's Homeward Bound
PSA: Attack on Endor set
Back in the Bay Area
cox.net, you pain me
Have a lawsuit, on us!
IV
Anyone need an AT-AT?
More on fake cloning results
From the peninsula to San Diego
American radio
Republic Cruiser Lust
Scratch one laptop
Wikipedia (roughly) as good as Britannica, human cloning a bust
Mass comics review
Data entry mistake yields massive loss on Tokyo market
Where I am this weekend
New mammal!
Scrubs resuscitated
Tops in the box office right now
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Don't mess with Russian squirrels
Need to unwind?
Thanksgiving roundup
Prada, Gucci, Mahayana
Google maps, you give me perspective
My eyes burn (literary classics as text messages)
"No offense"
Need an AT-AT?
The hits keep on coming...
More comics to read! (Inhabit)
Why I won't ever end up signing a petition
Do not touch this drug
Litmus test
Value of a dress code
Previews order for October
Down With Love
Thanks, Mrs. Maple
Altamont Commuter Express
My people are crazy (and hot)
Inhabit: best in color? grayscale? pure black and white?
Yeah, I feel that way sometimes
Hally K Ono restaurant (rocks!)
Serenity
Smallville's editorial on FEMA
Whedon diaspora
Amazon redundancy
Ramadan in San Jose
Tool use observed in wild gorillas
A Nobel for Warran and Marshall's ulcer discoveries
Don't spook the bunny
Adult giant squid filmed for the first time
Climbing the HP ladder -- Prisoner of Azkaban
Death by lethargy
Spawned from my booklist
The future of Star Wars minis
Tagged: books
You go, Bill
Valuable internet resource
Satanic? I'll give ya' satanic...
Previews: comics ordered for September
New blog
Louisiana diaspora
A bit of good news from Iraq
Robbing America
Character, resources and resolve
The death of New Orleans
New Orleans, before and after
Lessons learned to date: New Orleans
Hurricane outlook for the remainder of the year
FDA stalling on contraception
New Orleans tally rising
Al Jazeera news roundup
Huge one way, mild another -- hurricane damage
Malaysians in space
How does this ad work?
Ah, the culture of "life"
American obesity
Chinese in Malaysia
Dealing with unrest in China
(no subject)
Selling off Magic cards
Antibiotic-resistant bugs in chicken
Game Day, Fight Day
Now half of me challenges half of kwc...
They've arrested Gimli (or not -- UK deportions)
Iranian weapons -- need another source
Direct evidence shows more cocaine use than expected
If the IRA won't kill us, we'll just have to do it ourselves
Short-term thinking, unrealistic assessment and making Al Qaeda
The oldest ancestor I can track
Revenge of the Sith -- Obiwan and endings
The IRA officially discards violence
San Diego, land of scandal
This week's MMWR (July 22, 2005)
Terrorist motivation
Maj. General Zhu Chenghu wants you to think the PLA is insane
A reporter discusses the portfolio review process, and us
San Diego Comic Con, Saturday, July 16 - Jeff Smith
San Diego Comic Con, Saturday, July 16
San Diego Comic Con, Friday, July 15
San Diego Comic Con, Thursday, July 14
Letter to the president: Make the right choice
More people in line for a horrid beating
Because sex is more damaging than killing
Something not to forget about (World War II explosives)
Bionic arms
This week's MMWR (July 8, 2005)
London, 8:50 am
Rating my martial arts training
Coordinated attacks: glorifying the mundane
Second-rate evil
My jiu jitsu lineage
London pictures
Trying to prevent home-brew fatwas
More on the real and unreal of fighting
How not to defend yourself
This week's MMWR
Earth versus the comet
Missing people and news coverage
Egyptian ambassador seized in Iraq
Contemporary animation worth watching
Free-range bunnies
Wired reflexes
Sandra Day O'Connor retiring
Things to do in Detroit?
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bryson)
Rob Liefeld, inkers and more
U-2 crashes in "southwest asia" (mideast)
Batman Begins IMAX: Kinda freaky
David Sutherland
Staff Sgt accused of murdering two officers in Tikrit
Not really business gibberish
Using high technology to talk -- "teleporting" via nanite simulacra
HIV/AIDS in China
The Chechens did it! (or, perhaps, not)
Does wealth equal fat? (The fate of developing nations)
That's new (car and other bombings in Iran)
Stairway escape: after-action report
The Bunny has your number
"Trained on how to kill Americans"
NATO to airlift African Union troops into Darfur
Songs like this (Interpol's Crack)
Ovarian transplantation: after 102 years, it works
Kept down by the Man (the real purpose of the Jedi order)
You May Already Be A Patient -- Sexual Interest Disorder
Sleep and Development
The non-libertarian FAQ
Unpleasant excess
Opportunity escapes
Ernst Mayer (July 5, 1904 - February 3, 2005)
"The Third Age of Phage"
Boy Meets World meets Knight Rider
Gender-specific 3-D glasses
The F/A-22 and its nearest competitors
Revenge of the Sith, second time
Relaxation: why I don't like many computer games
Who not to invite to the party (Guantanamo and the FBI)
Star Wars marathon options
Revenge of the Sith
Your X chromosome means you're made of porcelain (limiting women in combat)
That medieval worldview (more on Koran desecration)
Try not to make things up (Koran desecration takeback)
Cassini paints a picture of Titan (with bonus human migration and disease)
Drugs and war - combining two threads
Help me, Mister McCloud! (Manhwa, manga)
Quantitative analysis
Missing Sandman Mystery Theatre issues
IRA and FARC
My literature: the early years
Axis & Allies Miniatures game
North Korean official news
Yeah, 'cause that'll work (North Korea report)
Ape 2005 reading III
Risk assessment: freeway shootings
Picking your words "Blast strikes UK consulate"
Friendly nations, but no friendly intelligence agencies
Daredevil: Born Again
Fun with Flickr -- error messages
Intelligence in War -- an older generation
APE 2005 reading II
Rasputina -- Frustration Plantation
Star Wars, primetime
Buffering against chance (reading Intelligence in War)
Fanboy power
Ten books
A career of pain: dissertation writing services
APE 2005 reading I
Laser applications: Mind control and cancer detection
Danish names
Most grammar isn't pedantry...
"...a shadow on the reputation of the United Nations..."
More of the same (Warren Ellis)
Who serves me? Legislative representation
Recent reads: Bendis, Rucka (and a Miller bit)
But when did numbers ever matter...
Display competence by not displaying
Working up to cyberware
Clone Wars empirical studies I
Negative space: Zhang and Nicholson, you rock
Aren't we the clever ones
A peaceful vampire solution
Beau has a bad feeling about this...
Revenge of the Sith set list for Star Wars minis
Dealing with a pacifist Slayer
If you feed the bears, they just keep coming back
Not surprisingly, military experience is helpful during military actions
Light historical reading
If you're in Mountain View
From conception to artificial maintenance
Rebels are boring -- but they don't have to be
Clone Strike anticipation
Session reports on Boardgamegeek
Andre Norton, 1912-2005
Soviet missiles, Dutch chemicals
Awarding the Victoria Cross
Looking at metabolic networks, path length and network scale
Jelly in your armor
Safety tips
Jedi: cops, not soldiers
Tricksy video editing
Sith goodness
Asians avoid the Hellmouth
Not so terribly different as all that
John of Patmos is a grumpy guy
When "Christian writing" isn't Christian writing
Google's translation...still quite Beta
Rewriting the Star Wars prequels
TiVo fans
Incomprehensible regional transit planning
How surmise becomes fact
New thing learned today: Photoshop and the web
parakkum.com is go
Soap
Because I think this one is actually interesting...
What Book Buyers didn't want
Stormy the show bunny
I feel like Ford Prefect
Prehistoric bunnies
Bunny risk assessment
Risk assessment
The mail brings...
Explanation drift
Papers from a research lab
Little changes that disrupt meaning
Oh, good grief
Book counts by author
Beautiful synchronicity...and I hurt my neck
I like my senator
Instantaneous police response
Disasters in slow motion
The UK leads the way
My letter to the president
Writing to the White House
Low bidding on aid is bad
Why is Bangladesh safe?
Los Angeles or Baghdad?
Definitely need to exercise
Venture Brothers and Life Day
Writing, TiVo
The FBI didn't like what it saw
Writing a novel, again
Silmarillion quotes II
Watch the Spirit Mars rover in unreal time
Silmarillion quotes, I
No McKinsey for me
The BBC's take on urban warfare
Four hundred bucks o' Mac
Stop Loss
A startling similarity
Voted
Critical thinking, yay!
California voting, national voting
Against All Enemies
Turning things into latin or greek (or the ancient languge of your choice)
Spending the (Federal) money
Not at the end with the guns
Magic and violence
Star Wars Miniatures
Spain approves gay marriage
Life goals and what do with myself
On typhoon naming
Playing out the Lord of the Rings
HIV, still bad
Consulting
Hey, money
Determining the fate of the Republican Party
Doctor of Philosophy in Biology
More on Beslan
Damn it
A clever defensive force multiplier
Round one to the gatekeeper
The origins of the Great War
If I can not say it, it does not exist
Defended
Two days
Mass-market ancient greek
Onward I march
Coolest message board response ever
Sometimes Lucas is clever
More Writing for The Future
They quarterlike me!
No bruise
Ow
Watching Buffy
On "The Government"
Aced twice by Analog
(stilted...) "The first...transport...is away."
A reason to maybe not use Ecstasy
Best defense
Physics punctuated by F-15s
Biotech jobs for a newly minted PhD
Who's where
Lying. Shoot.
Money, money
Three more away
Formish or not?
Board games grow in Korea
Things to do in Tokyo?
Two shots away
Things that should have been in the mission briefing
Spartan (go see this movie)
For even more Star Wars...
Hadn't even heard of it
This is a situation Calvin might imagine
Thinking about Star Wars movies now...
A feature I want on DVDs
Excellent timing
Big guns in translation
They have the cutest widdle FBI...
Why people flame
When sugar is your friend
These are a few of my favorite things