So there's a new series set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, set about 80 years after the end of the series. It follows the new Avatar Korra, as she sets out from her secluded and sheltered life of training at the hands of the Order of the White Lotus, and goes forth into a world of techn...

He's also a risk to the community since he shot and killed someone who was living there.

Happy birthday! Enjoy your cake and pie. (and and pi)

2002: A Space Illiad

I'm still here.

Energy Source Death Rate (deaths per TWh) Coal – world average 161 (26% of world energy, 50% of electricity) Coal – China 278 Coal – USA 15 Oil 36 (36% of world energy) Natural Gas 4 (21% of world energy) Biofuel/Biomass 12 Peat 12 Solar (rooftop) 0.44 (less than 0.1% of world energy) Wind 0.15 (le...

I am really loving these stories! I take issue with the viewpoint that one of your characters takes. She says something to the effect of all the works of man are to make a painful hostile universe less painful. While that is a driving force behind technological advancement, there is another force wh...

This is a great show, for reasons I find hard to articulate. I suppose it is just the humor and good characterization.

I got a google+ account, and I like it!

There is this new Google project called Google+ which has been described as "like facebook, plus it's not facebook!" I'm somewhat interested in it. As far as I know, Google has a pretty good track record for not abusing the massive amounts of personal information it already has in its poss...

Well, although Obama is not working directly to repeal it, he has directed the Justice Department to no longer defend DOMA when it comes to court.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/2 ... 27134.html

I forgot to move all zig...

Thanks Coda, you expressed what I was trying to say quite nicely.

Yes, presenting nuclear power as magical would be misleading spin. Presenting it as a boiling teakettle is also spin, and just about as misleading. Fusion power, the holy grail of energy production, would also be a teakettle.

A steam engine is not quite the same thing as a steam turbine, which power plants use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_turbine Dismissing something as "just" using the basic principles of energy transformation is an easy jab, and not intellectually honest. Airplanes are just powered kit...

I have them, I never did get around to playing with the source. I can't find where it was originally hosted, so I'll put it in my public dropbox folder. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7262825/kokorosrc.zip

There appears to be a mod that strips the forum down to its barest textual basics when the urls are preceded by a /m/.

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=304949

A demo forum and the plain text mobile version of it and the iwebkit style version of it.

Plasman wrote:Ahh... Someone with Mod Powers!, please merge this thread with the one I started in That Jennifer Person...

Done.

Also, happy birthday!

This apparently does not exist anymore.

Verres