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    The Avengers (SPOILERS BEWARE0

    Based on that list, I suspect they're safe until Prometheus.
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    is the Pandora algorthm broken

    Experimentation in the past shows very clearly that if you start a station with one or more performers/bands it attempts to play music that sounds like the majority of that performer's work, while if you start a station with just one or two songs by that artist, the resulting music will match...
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    The Awesomeness Has Arrived

    Congratulations, very cool! Have a blast!
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    is the Pandora algorthm broken

    Understand that if you start a channel based on one or more bands instead of on specific songs, you may not get the matches you'd expect since specifying band means the algorithm has to try to find things that are similar about the majority of a band's songs. Consider this: Band A has 10...
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    Call of Chihuly

    Love Chihuly's work, truly transcendent. Beautiful, beautiful.
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    GAME OF THRONES #5:The Ghost of Harrenhal ACT 15 Chapter 2-2012

    I agree on the wildfire production thing, and hope it comes up. On the extra-large people, I've assumed a recessive giant gene, originally from the actual giants.
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    Been saying it for years...

    Impermanence is certainly a potential downside of electronic data, and yes, data formats become outdated, but a potential apocalypse is, imo, a bad basis for decisionmaking. Our entire food supply system would also vanish in an instant, frex, but we don't redesign it so it's less efficient in...
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    Been saying it for years...

    Something to factor in is the tremendous number of paper books that are destroyed. Higher-quality books can be pulped to create other paper products, but low-quality (many hardbacks and most paperbacks) have so little usable cellulose that one more time through the masher results in, at best...
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    GAME OF THRONES #4Garden of Bones: ACT 14 Chapter 2-2012

    Agreed, this is when he's most in his power, most able to take advantage of his talents. He shines brightest here.
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    Been saying it for years...

    Solid opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal about this. Among the useful parts (highlights mine):
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    Letters of Transit--FRINGE Season IV/AWWP #19

    Ah, interesting point!
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    GAME OF THRONES #4Garden of Bones: ACT 14 Chapter 2-2012

    To be more clear, she has the role of Jeyne. She might well end up being named Talisa and be from overseas, but she's the love interest that ultimately .
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    GAME OF THRONES #4Garden of Bones: ACT 14 Chapter 2-2012

    She is indeed Jeyne Westerling.
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    Been saying it for years...

    App Store, not iTunes music, so not really an option.
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    Letters of Transit--FRINGE Season IV/AWWP #19

    It stems from an unseen alternate presence, since . Therefore the observers "not acting like themselves" is a matter of the entire story, including their behavior, taking place in a completely different dimension/universe.
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    Been saying it for years...

    You're arguing against yourself: it was 90% prior to the agency model change.
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    2012---In Remembrance.

    I loved the guy, but am sort of glad he's passed; I literally couldn't watch him on the New Year's Eve specials due to his very creepy Cryptkeeper vibe.
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    So I decided to build a game table

    Love the table, and the recessed area. Great work!
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    Been saying it for years...

    Danny's done an excellent job of saying everything I would have wanted to, but better. I will add that the concept that consumers benefit if the price is lower is extremely short-term thinking. Low prices, as exemplified by WalMart, can have a massively harmful effect on the overall economy...
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