I don't mind this being a trilogy. But they better have Smaug in by the second film. I'm not sitting through two whole films before seeing a little dragon action. (I'm willing to allow the first film to focus on trolls and Gollum, with just a cameo by Smaug.)

A little hyperbole for humorous effect never hurt a relationship. Our exact conversation was like this:

Because I love her. Duh.

Best part of the opening ceremonies was writer Warren Ellis tweeting about it.

Whoops, missed that, thanks.

How were the suggestions given? I would have liked to be among the suggestors. Although I probably would have put up Blindsight and Rainbows End, because both are awesome.

Because occasionally he meets a bad guy that doesn't *have* a skeleton. Then he knows he's up against Clayface.

I'd like to go. I even asked my girlfriend for permission to enter the tryouts. But she nixed the idea.

It's 'false color' in that it's using an infrared band or two, so it isn't what you'd see with human eyes. But it's not made-up or painted color. To create these images we just choose the bands we want to use, clip to an interesting square region, and balance the histograms to make it pop.

The Landsat satellite records light in Red, Green, and Blue bands, but also in two shortwave infrared bands. The Yukon image has an infrared band in the red position (so instead of [R,G,B], it's [SWIR2, G, B]). That affects all the colors. It's not as vivid in visible light.

I haven't updated them in a while, but I have a few more pictures that I put up for my friends on my Flickr account. Some of them made it into the later shows, but a few that were passed over are still stunning.

We've talked about the Earth as Art project before. I was the person who came up with the idea, and I did about 80% of the images in the first show. I also did 'Van Gogh' above; it was in the third show.

Perhaps by shocking the world at the earliest possible showing of the film, the tragedy in Aurora released the societal pressure before more acts could be committed. Perhaps the combination of a psychotic meme and a person weak-willed enough to obey it is so rare that only one match was made.

I prefer to look at this as a sociological event; social trends made some kind of violence at the opening of this film inevitable and predictable, and if James Holmes had not been the perpetrator some other weak-willed person would be.

Or instead of reducing the time on the clock, they could have stated that the blast radius was only 3 miles. 6 miles is a huge nuke. The bomb dropped on Nagasaki only had a one-mile blast radius, and it was designed to be a bomb, not a reactor.

tg1413 is correct, and I should know. :) Although 'Shepherd' is the RIGHT way to spell the name, Bioware decided to use a common mis-spelling in the Mass Effect franchise.

It's made of rat cells, so it probably tastes like rat. Which I understand isn't bad with the right seasoning...

Water vapor cycles out of the atmosphere quickly. CO2 has both quantity and staying power. That's why there's a focus on it.

In medical terms, a 'chimera' is an organism with two gene-lines combined into it. If they had mixed rat and jellyfish cells together, it would be a chimera. They're calling it a 'medusoid' because 'medusa' is the name of the jellyfish phylum.

I was going to post about Jamendo, but I see you already have it. Good pick.