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Luke's sabre, formerly Anakin's, is a mood sabre. Anakin built it during his cocky Attack of the Clones phase to impress girls. While on Tatooine Luke was feeling wonder and trepidation, but by the Falcon he was filled with a combination of envy and shame at Kenobi's masterful prowess with The...

I've been told that the eye is packed with neurons -- they're like little sub-brains -- and that they do a significant amount of image processing before sending the representative information on to the visual cortex. Ability to resolve is dependent on light and light has a finite size...

Well, I don't feel so bad about my roommates making fun of my Canadian accent now. Even Canadian otters aren't excluded from having their accents made fun of. Otters Confused by Accent

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead. I'm Western Canadian (Alberta) and have lived in California for two years. Me and my roommates have been over all of those. About, eh?, decal, roof, Celica, zed, schedule, and especially process and progress which I agree should be the ultimate Canadian accent...

Whoops. I'll try posting this in the right thread. :b The bottom line is I didn't like Spider-Man much but I really wanted to like it. It's not like Evil Dead 2 isn't one of my favorite films. I went in thinking, "I really liked X-Men. I hope this is as good." But I found myself getting kind...

Apparently this is a june bug. When I was driving through Missoula, Montana years ago, a giant, fat, Link Removed flew through the car window and landed on the back of my hand. I have to admit that it startled the hell out of me and I nearly lost control of the car. Until just now I wasn't...

The weta's a serious bug. Link Removed But everyone knows the ugliest bug is the poor little assassin bug! Fun Facts! In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders. Allan

Yeah! How about George Clooney as "the character based on Kaneda" and Jim Carrey as "the character based on Tetsuo"? Jon Peters and the director of Blade! With a pedigree like that how can it fail? I smell marvelousishness! Reality check: Give up on any actors of Japanese descent being in it...

Hey all! I don't post often, so I'll apologize in advance about the length of my post. My dreams -- the ones I can remember as people typically forget the bulk of a night's dreaming before they wake up -- are usually so interesting or intense I don't want to wake up. Currently my life is...

Scott, I concede to your correction of the pluralization of abbreviations misinformation I provided (ain't that a mouthful). Thanks for setting me straight. Here's a correction for you: My British ex-girlfriend, a Ph.D. who studied at a fancy girls' school in England and who speaks and writes...

Yeah, you're and your is a typical one. In the same vein, the their, they're, there thing seems to seriously screw up the unwashed masses as well. Apparently if it sounds the same it doesn't really matter which one you use. "Me fail English? That's unpossible." - Ralph Wiggum

Hmm. My biggest pet peeve is teenage assholes loudly making "funny" comments for the benefit of all in a theatre during a movie, and then listening to all the teenage girls throughout the audience giggle loudly. Something about that common occurrence utterly shakes my faith in humanity...

I feel a long post coming. *sigh* Julie, I empathize with you. Don't give up hope. I find it amusing that open-mindedness is a trait commonly associated with new-agers, conspiracy theorists, UFO nuts, crop circle "researchers", spiritualists and the like. Half these people are charlatans...

Hey guys, First of all, for those who haven't already, go read Carl Sagan's masterpiece "A Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark." This is not optional. Okay, just kidding, it is optional but no rational person should be without its benefits. My view on belief in superstition is...