:: Randomized Wisdom
  
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nominal - of, being, or relating to a designated or theoretical size that may vary from the actual
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"In its time, this, his house, had been a place of great souls and great ambition, where all common-place debate had been banned. If you wanted to talk politics or tittle-tattle you went to the coffee house; if you wanted commerce, to the Exchange. Here, o [continued]"
~ Maestro Sartori, Imagica


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:: What's Hot
What's In: Handmade - What's Out: Pre-Owned
Nobody bought it when it came out. Nobody bought it on sale. And when that nobody gave it to GoodWill, you thought it was a great buy? DIY is the only way to go. Nothing beats handmade. Thrift store items don't even come with a history. For all you know, they could be cursed by the bum that died in them...
:: Film Review
  • Wanted

    Here is another flick that has been teasing us with previews for entirely too long. Good news, though! It comes out at the end of this month.

    We'll most likely be adding Wanted to our list of favorite false reality films, from the Matrix to Harry Potter, and everything in between. Somewhat unique in the list, it does not actually stray very far from perceived reality. After a few decades of letting Hollywood teach us being an assassin can be okay (while being a soldier isn't, interestingly), we are all well prepared to accept "Oh, and BTW, you are a world-class assassin, didja know?" as a realistic prelude to the exposure of false reality.

  • Casino Royale This movie emasculated James Bond. Just skip the last half hour, which is spent trying to reasure the viewer that James' ballz are indeed still intact and functional. If you skip the needlessly gratuitous nut-pulping torture scene, you don't have to spend 30 minutes of movie time trying in vane to atone for it, neh? What a waste...
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: : Latest News Articles

The Nomenclature of Stoopid
Jul 04, 2008

Question: Just what kind of an idiot are you?

Answer: Dunno, how many different kinds are there?

One of the most common epithets heard amongst my friends is "I hate stoopid people!" Now, discounting the assumption that they might all just be a bunch of 'haters' (humorous in possibiities but unlikely on the whole) there is the blatant semantic error of stereotyping such a diverse range of categories under one term.

To this end, I propose that not all of the people so classified are actually stupid, per se. Keep reading to see a comprehence breakdown of of just how many flavors "stoopid" comes in.

What's In? What's Out?
Jul 01, 2008

Ok, now that you've gotten over the initial shock of the complete site redesign, you want to know one of two things...

Where the hell is the image that you were trying to link to or visit from the old Pictures of You gallery collected on the Were-Here Just Conversation forum about people who now post on 12s?

-or-

What are you supposed to be looking for?

Conan MMO: First Impressions
Jun 09, 2008

It's been a week since I installed this thing, and now it's time to report in about it. This wasn't a game that I was actually anticipating, to tell you the truth. I mean, the genre is just so... done already. But, all that aside, you can still do a good job with a worn genre. With that in mind, this game truly excels.

Main highlights: guild cities, dynamic combat mechanics and boobyshake!

Google Analytics vs Firefox 3.0
Jun 09, 2008

A pioneer in your field, you already have Firefox 3.0 installed. For convenient visitor tracking, you added Google Analytics to your site. Still a pioneer, you used the new version that is available. Finally, you started checking out some of the new site traffic diagnostic tools that Google has to offer you.

Lucky you, now you can get to your site, but it's covered by a huge semi-transparent image that you can't click past, courtesy of Google's added ga_shade div tag at the bottom of your page. It's a tag that you diidn't put in your code, the Analytics script did. And you can try as hard as you want to override the CSS for that sucker, but you probably won't succeed.

Neither did we, so it's back to Firefox 2.0 until we feel brave again...

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