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Ladies and Gentlemen of the Audience, I have the following news to report about Wizard World:

I went.
I saw.
I got my picture taken with Summer Glau.




WHEEEEE!!!!!!

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Linkspam time again, boys and girls. Let's start off with the fun & amusing bits, okay?

fandomhigh is a cracktastic online roleplaying game. For the full effect, be sure to check out all the ancillary communities listed in the userinfo.

Orneryboy engages in a little roleplaying

Let Jinx cater to your every geeky T-shirt need. Please.

And now for the not-so-fun links.

Former Powell aide links Cheney's office to abuse directives
Vice President Dick Cheney's office was responsible for directives that led to U.S. soldiers' abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, a former top State Department official said Thursday.

How to kill a website with one email
A Dutch advocacy group dedicated to online rights found that, of 10 prominent Dutch ISPs, 7 killed websites containing completely legal, public-domain information based on A SINGLE complaining email from someone claiming that the website was illegally displaying copyrighted information. The websites and emails were all generated by the group, who had specifically chosen content that was public-domain and correctly attributed to the original author, who had died in 1887. The emails were all sent from Hotmail accounts and in one case, the ISP provided, WITHOUT BEING ASKED, private information about the owner of the website!

Finally, rather than relinking it all, I refer you to this post in cleolinda's journal. Specifically, note the links to more evidence of Mike Brown's incompetence and the debate over a nearly 100% effective cervical cancer vaccine.