Atherton: Half the men in this room wish you were on their arm, tonight. Inara: Only half. I must be losing my indefinable allure.

'Shindig'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Apr 19, 2005 4:45:03 am PDT #6778 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Corporate logos run amok: [link]

(Photoshopped - satire.)


amych - Apr 19, 2005 4:47:25 am PDT #6779 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

tag away, Calli!


Burrell - Apr 19, 2005 4:49:15 am PDT #6780 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Mal is such a wee cutie! Such a perfect little face.


tommyrot - Apr 19, 2005 4:53:49 am PDT #6781 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

What a way to go

Super-volcano, robotic rebellion or terrorism? Kate Ravilious asks 10 scientists to name the biggest danger to Earth and assesses the chances of it happening

I think we had a similar list a while back, but this one had one that was new to me. So now we also gotta worry about telomere erosion....


Burrell - Apr 19, 2005 5:01:06 am PDT #6782 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Didn't check out the list, tommyrot, but from what I've read, telomere erosion isn't so much a threat to mankind as a fact of aging.


§ ita § - Apr 19, 2005 5:02:12 am PDT #6783 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

However, it is not just through our lifetime that telomeres get shorter. My theory is that there is a tiny loss of telomere length from one generation to the next...


tommyrot - Apr 19, 2005 5:02:27 am PDT #6784 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

For those concerned about that part of the religious right that want to impose a theocracy on the US: [link]

There is a small possiblity that reading this might make you shit your pants....


tommyrot - Apr 19, 2005 5:03:45 am PDT #6785 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

However, it is not just through our lifetime that telomeres get shorter. My theory is that there is a tiny loss of telomere length from one generation to the next...

Yeah. Which seems unlikely to me to lead to extinction, but then again, what do I know?


DXMachina - Apr 19, 2005 5:06:39 am PDT #6786 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Mal is just adorable.


Jesse - Apr 19, 2005 5:13:53 am PDT #6787 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Call me selfish, but I'm not all that concerned about extinction beyond how it would affect me directly.