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Sf I feet betrayed when I read the opinion of In the Eye of the Storm. From what I can understand - correct me if I am wrong - I feel like his opinion is just confirming that it seems [Blizzardl is so wrapped up and so deep In appeasing the crowd of World of WarCraft [fans] that they are abandoning any developments on future WarCraft series. They have to remember that some of the players in WOW came from WarCraft lit (just like me). It seems like Blizzard s just the same as any other big corporation. The bottom line: It’s all about profit.

Some scientists have proposed that when a woman has a baby, she gets not just a son or a daughter, but a gift of cells that stays behind and protects her for the rest of her life. That’s because a baby’s cells linger in its mom’s body for decades and — like stem cells — may help to repair damage when she gets sick. It’s such an enticing idea that even the scientists who came up with the idea worry that it may be too beautiful to be true.

If fetal cells really are helping moms, I wonder if women who have babies (and abortions and miscarriages) tend to live longer than women who do not conceive. After all, the Conceivers have an extra gang (the more conceptions, the bigger the gang) of helpful cells inside

Maybe there’s some measurable consequence. And if the Good Hypothesis turns out to be true and every child leaves a posse of good soldiers in their mothers, then no matter how crummy we are to our moms, we are, willingly or unwillingly, still doing something nice for her — on the inside.

This is a post from Usenet on startrek. Read along, it is hilarious.

Top 100 reasons why spock is better than data.

100. Spock came first.
99. Spock plays chess with his captain; Captain Picard wouldn’t be caught dead playing games with Data.
98. Spock likes to take rocket-pack joy-rides.
97. Spock is so confident, he waits to the last possible second to transmit friendship lingua-code to an attacking enemy.
96. Spock never stabbed his fellow crewmen.
95. Spock never dressed like Friar Tuck.
94. Spock’s mom is not only human, she knows she’s human.
93. Data dresses like Sherlock Holmes; Spock is related to Sherlock Holmes.
92. Humans are beneath him.
91. Vulcans never bluff.
90. Spock doesn’t have an evil twin brother.

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Could this have been more of a plug for the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live? I understand the concept of simple games being fun and that graphics aren’t everything (ooh, water!), but did you really have to pick Microsoft’s latest darling? Did you have to do it with a platform title rather than a Flash game or freeware title?

I understand the fantastic joy of Pac-Man. And if I hadn’t already wasted hours of my youth with Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Baby Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man and whatever other Poc-Spinoffs you could name (no cheating with Internet help), I might be willing to play this game you mention… if it [were] available to me on my PC, But since this remake of a quarter-century-old title is not available to Windows gamers - despite Microsoft’s claims that they fully support the PC platform I’ll just play Overlard, which covers much of what you speak of while still rendering very nice water.