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Turn your October National Novel Writing month's project into a storyboard! Just trawling the net and found some websites that aid in making storyboards: Apparently there's some slight chance of being 'discovered'. http://studios.amazon.com/storyteller http://www.storyboardthat.com/

Anyone slated to take their GREs soon (say 3 months to a year from today)? I'm thinking of scheduling a general and a few subject tests soon (probably biochemistry and chemistry). Want to help each other out in studying in a daily group kind of way? For the uninitiated, GREs are the...

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/07/scienceshot-for-lifes-evolution-.html?ref=hp Credit: NASA/Kepler Mission/Dana Berry Basically the elemental composition of a solar system affects the rate at which the central star goes through its lifespan, affecting the amount of time planets...

So anyone else in the DOTA 2 closed beta? In case you don't know what DOTA is, it's originally a Warcraft 3 mod with a unique, balanced favor, kind of like a game of chess for RTS/action RPG fans. I'd suggest reading here first, since DOTA is somewhat complicated, though well "studied"...

Master of Orion might have been right----there might really be "oceanic" planets. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/scienceshot-water-world-is-new.html?ref=hp

According to the Wall Street Journal, Life Technologies is promising $1000 genome sequencing to arrive in a very short amount time (possibly under 1 year's time). http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204124204577151053537379354.html Alternatively...

Iowa is over: Mitt is ahead Iowa results: The second NH debate occured today: http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/08/politics/new-hampshire-debates/index.html lol This debate sounds more like cheap generalizations. I read the scoresheet as: Mitt: "It's the economy, stupid", moderate, big...

Interesting case about an American citizen trying to exercise free speech in other countries. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16081337 http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/08/world/asia/thailand-american-insults/index.html?hpt=wo_c2 Discussion Should free speech be a universal right...

I've been noticing errors when running some applications, mostly MMO games where I see semi-fatal frame stuttering. I have a new video card that is appropriately powered, so my main thought was either the hard drives (2 of 3 hard drives used for virtual memory at a modest 2 GB per harddrive) or...

This was news to me, maybe not to you: T41vZCadbAk Youtube wants viewers to design experiments for the ISS, and will pay for the best one to be performed on the ISS and live streamed. Pretty cool huh? Team Civfanatics, anyone?

Interesting news story about the Nobel prize for medicine recipient Dr. Ralph Steinman. http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/03/health/nobel-prize/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Nobel winner died days before award announced By the CNN Wire Staff Basically the dendritic cells present antigen molecules to...

A little informal poll for those of you who actually seek jobs and internships: Resumes are those short pages that summarize your existence for prospective employers, listing your education, work history, and supposedly making you look competitive/non-competitive in the job market. There...

I'm toying with the idea of building a dedicated gaming server and also using it perhaps as a firewall for my gaming (just for kicks, no real need for that). The server would be the main internet router (connected directly to the cable modem, or might just an onboard modem) for my PC. Anyone...

Post your funny scam emails from your Junk folder (REAL or IMAGINARY): This one is really so transparent and creative at the same, that I LOL'd. I sure hope that Canada doesn't send a hit squad after me!

As reported in Science (http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/07/language-protein-may-help-build-.html), a gene FOX2, long thought to be crucial to the language ability in humans and animals may actually play a role in encouraging developing neurons to connect together. Evidence of how it...

Post random gamplay videos of random games you've found on teh intrenetz! (maybe this will turn into a Random Rant thread?). I'll start: 8enaDpxcWvI (Note if you need help embedding Youtube, just get the video # and bracket it with youtube blocks; replay to this email with the QUOTE...

From Gamespot.com, summarizing a print article from a science journal: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6314529.html?tag=updates%3Beditor%3Ball%3Btitle%3B3 Gray Matter Nonmyelinated cells and circuitry that comprise the ‘central processing unit’ of the CNS and spinal cord; the...

I noticed no thread for Fallout 3 mods, and I didn't want to pollute the NV thread. So what's your favorite mods for Fallout 3? How exactly to compile a bunch together into one master mod? And seen any Civ-like or more Mad Max-like mods (lots of raiders)? I'd like to play more of a...

Anyone played this? http://www.youtube.com/user/PowerofTwoGamestudio Apparently it is a commercialization of Dwarf Fortress but a tad more from a cell automata perspective.

It's looking very likely that the government will shutdown since Obama and all didn't reach an agreement on the US Federal budget and other time constraints put the deadline as Tuesday night. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/government-shutdown-2011/index.html Is raising...