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Oktober 13, 2008:The chief executives of the nine largest banks in the United States trooped into a gilded conference room at the Treasury Department at 3 p.m. Monday. To their astonishment, they were each handed a one-page document that said they agreed to sell shares to the government, then Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said they must ( Read more... )

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Got back late last night from my first attendance at Dragon*Con. Quite fun, and a bit overwhelming in terms of how much there was to see and do, even for someone who's been to cons like Anime Expo. Some highlights ( Read more... )

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What the...? When the hell did Captain Benjamin Sisko teach classes at my school?

I think I can get behind the use of this term:

Nuke the fridge

Nuke the fridge is a colloquialism used to refer to the moment in a film series that is so incredible that it lessens the excitement of subsequent scenes that rely on more understated action or suspense, and it becomes apparent that a certain installment is not as good as a previous ( Read more... )

Nynaeve shook her head. She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a time. She wondered if Uno and Ragan knew the whole of it. People who claimed they were collecting money to help others often had a way of letting a good ( Read more... )

"We Need To Let Metal And Odin Catch The Kids Before Jesus Does!"

This Fark headline made me laugh:
Muslims call for GMT to be replaced with "Mecca Time" as they have proven that Mecca is the center of the Earth. Fools, do they not know that the Earth is a four-corner simultaneous timecube, and thus has no center?
In other news, I just finished the second session of a D&D campaign I've started running and it seems ( Read more... )