Sonic and Mario finally get to fight. It is expected the game will also have wifi and network capabilities to add more players to fights.

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Sonic will be in Super Smash Bros: Brawl

The most interesting part, however, was this video showing the way Wal-Mart has spread across the country like a microbe culture in a petri dish.

Video of Wal-Mart's spreading across USA like germ culture - Boing Boing

What Is Chlamydia?

Snow White: Chlamydia is a lot like swallowing a poisoned apple transformed through magic by a witch. Except, instead of a poisoned apple, it’s more like bacteria living on dirty dwarf cock.

Cinderella: The Chlamydia bacteria can grow in the throat, vagina, penis, or absolutely anywhere on that whore “Sleeps-Around Beauty.” Oh, I’m sorry. I mean, Aurora.

Pocahontas: Chlamydia is the only thing I still have from John Smith.

How Do You Get It?

Snow White: I’m not a scientist so I can only guess, but I think the smart money is on doing the rusty trombone with Happy.

Jasmine: Chlamydia was invented by Jews.

Ariel: I got it playing a game I like to call “Finding Nemo.”

The Disney Princesses Talk About Chlamydia

Michael Vick recently accepted an invitation from PETA and attended an eight-hour course on animal cruelty at the group's Virginia headquarters, according to the animal-rights group.

According to PETA, Vick's day was specifically planned for him, and it focused on animal protection and empathy. First, he was given an overview of animal protection, then a session that laid out the scientific evidence for animals' ability to feel happiness, sadness and pain.

Various test questions:

Is hitting dogs ok?
A)No
B)Yes
C)Maybe
D)All of the above

You adopt a dog. Do you:
A) Pet it.
B) Take it for a walk.
C) Scratch its belly until its back paw moves uncontrollably.
D) Kill it.

1. Puppies are _____.
A. cute
B. super cute
C. delicious with bbq sauce

ESPN - PETA: Vick took class on preventing animal cruelty

Nanochick wrote:
Brewing update:

Today, Clint and I are brewing pumpkin brew. This is by far my favorite brew we do all year round, mainly because of the aroma of roasted pumpkin. Last time we brewed this, it was an absolute hit (as in, the keg was empty a few hours after we kegged...I didn't even get any...damn house parties), so I am looking forward to trying this.

In secondary : Paulaner Hefe clone and a high gravity belgian beer....oh yes.....winter is going to be good.

Do be sure to post how it goes, and a recipe with gravities if it turns out good. Though I have played with all kinds of different ingredients, I have yet to do pumpkin.

RE: Beer beer magical beer

Well, that's one way to run a legislature.

Legislation, Texas Style

Shannon wrote:

Seeing the pic ... all I can think about is the Jetson's car, and all the kids poping out of it in their own little glass-domed car.

RE: Suzuki's PIXY SSC concept thrives in post-nuclear wastelands - Engadget

I wonder how many other things in life go better with a BAC of .129 and .139. I guess It is time to get out the party breath-a-lizer and do some experiments.

XKCD: Balmer Peak

This is rather messed up. I do believe I will be avoiding WV for a while.

Inside a shed on a remote hillside of this coalfield community, authorities say a young black woman was tortured for days, sexually assaulted, beaten and forced to eat rat droppings.

Her captors, all of them white, choked her with a cable cord and stabbed her in the leg while calling her a racial slur, poured hot water over her and made her drink from a toilet, according to criminal complaints.

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At one point, an assailant cut the woman's ankle with a knife and used the N-word in telling her she was victimized because she is black, authorities said. They said the young was also forced to eat dog feces.

Since 1991, police have filed 108 criminal charges against the six.

I see the justice system is doing a great job keeping violent criminals off the streets.

ABC News:WV Woman stabbed, tortured, fed dog feces for a week

I learned a few new things about the Surface computer.

It utilizes Microsoft's XNA Development framework. Which is an extension of the .NET framework to allow easy development of Xbox and Windows games. I've used XNA to make a clone of Oasis and I can personally vouch that is makes developing cool graphics very easy.

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It has a menu program that restaurants might use to integrate their dinning menu directly into the table. Would be a cool novelty.

The price is expected to be between $5k and $10k. Of course this would go down over time making it pretty affordable.

A hands-on look at Microsoft’s new Surface computing platform