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Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D. The latter rose from the former, although the two are now so estranged that to reunite them would be an act of savage madness. Imagine a gaggle of modern hack-n-slash roleplayers who had somehow never been exposed to the original Tolkien mythos, and then imagine taking those players and trying to introduce them to Tolkien via a D&D campaign. (apologies; I can't recall where I first saw this)

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Promo image by James Jean, originally uploaded by Foxtongue.

because liked The Fountain a lot, and I still reallly want to see it. With three Ls, even.

Kinkless Desktop 1: The "No Mercy" Cleanup | Kinkless

So we have an undifferentiated mass of stuff on the desktop. This is the point at which a lot of organization self-help tells you to sort through it file by file. I am not going to tell you this. Why? Because I am lazy and realistic. You are just not going to clean up your desktop right now. Why? It’s overwhelming. So we’ll use a trick I call the “No Mercy Cleanup”:

The No-Mercy Cleanup

1. Get rid of your hard disks, CDs, and network shares. you can bring these back later, but for now we want an empty desktop.
2. Make a folder called “To Delete on Monday March 7” (using a date one week from today)
3. Select all items on your desktop (Command-A), command-click unselecting the “To Delete” folder.
4. Drag and drop everything on your desktop into this new folder.
5. Brush hands together, lean back, bask in the glory of your new clean desktop.

“But! I have! stuff! I need! in there!” I hear you say with too many exclamation points. Yes, you do. You are going to delete it in a week. So between now and one week from now, what do you do?

• Every time you really need something from that folder…
• You are going to go in to the “To Delete” folder…
• and re-file it to your main document storage folder

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The missile was fired shortly before noon from a launcher aboard the submarine USS Barbero, cruising off the coast of Virginia. Twenty-two minutes after launch, the missile struck its target at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station in Mayport, Florida.

The mail was retrieved, sorted and routed in the usual way from a post office in nearby Jacksonville.

Rocket mail, which has a whiff of theatrics to it, still exists and still has advocates around the world. Since the end of the cold war, a number of surplus missiles culled from the Soviet nuclear arsenal have been used to fire mail around Russia, including a few experimental launches from nuclear subs.

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Bloat. If you think that Americans are getting fatter, take one good look at the operating system (OS) your computer is running right now. It gets larger and more weighed down with every update. We are in the third decade of global personal computing, and have we really progressed that far?
Let’s go back to the dawn of personal computing and grab an old sentimental favorite, the Apple Macintosh Plus. The Mac Plus is an icon of the ’80s along with padded shoulders, big hair and Devo. It seems that we all had a little Mac, either in our college dorm room, in the upstairs bedroom, or on our office desk at some time. With its tiny 9-inch black & white screen and all-in-one packaging, the Mac Plus is a computing relic in the days of widescreen LCD monitors and dual- and quad-core systems. (full article) (tokyopia)

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