From the BBC: It is with much sadness that we can announce Elisabeth Sladen, the much-loved actress best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who and CBBC's The Sarah Jane Adventures, passed away this morning. She was 63.I started watching Doctor Who back in the Eighties when the local PBS station started showing the Tom Baker and ( Read more... )

Per this chart from XKCD, sleeping next to someone is 0.05 microsieverts and living within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant for a year is 0.09 microsieverts.

Me to wife: I need to go to the bread store as we're out of bread.
Youngest child: No. We're in bread.
Me: FACEPALM No, we're not.

Given the number of writer types on my FL, I figured some of you might be interested in this interview with the author who, as of moments ago, had three books on Amazon's Top 10 Literature and Fiction book list ( Read more... )

San Marcos police see hike in burglaries

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2011/03/08/san_marcos_police_see_hike_in.html?cxntfid=blogs_the_blotter

According to an announcement by the San Marcos Police Department:

San Marcos Police are asking for citizens’ help in stopping a rash of apartment and vehicle ( Read more... )

After viewing today's Cake Wrecks, I realized that one of them explains hcolleen's journal's name.


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Something of a birthday tradition for me, posting a link to Cracker's Happy Birthday To Me.

I am so damn tired of my government treating me like I'm the next fucking meth head-to-be or a robodexing teen when I buy drugs that I need when I have a cold or my allergies are acting up. I'm not a damn criminal and I do not want to be treated like one.

Cool video of the Royal Air Force's Red Arrows(equivalent to the US Navy's Blue Angels) practicing formations for a 1,000 mile charity ride on 125 cc Vespa scooters.

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So I'm looking at doing a Pathfinder game and I'm looking at the methods of character creation. For this sort of game, I like to stick to random methods for character attribute generation. I have a method I'd prefer to use, but I'd like input ( Read more... )