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Current categories:

ADVENTURES IN THE MUSIVERSE
Ships’ Logs (kiwimuncher)
Muse Scouts (AvalonGirl)
Pie Isle (TNÖ)
Incredible Beasts of Museica (Beatlesrockr)

LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
Vegetarians, Vegetarianism, Vegetables, and Vegemite (Purple Panda)
Mostly Harmless (kiwimuncher)

SILLY FUN
The Polling Place (kiwimuncher)
Alter Egos(kiwimuncher, AvalonGirl)
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories (Midnight Fiddler)
World of Piecraft (kiwimuncher)

WRITING – RRRs
Sea Roc (kiwimuncher
Alchemy RRR (kiwimuncher)
Etheterre (kiwimuncher)

WRITING – ASSORTED OTHER

OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
Coy Woodnesse (kiwimuncher)
Visual Arts (Purple Panda)
MuseBlog Chess (Purple Panda)
Music (Midnight Fiddler)
Books and Reading (Midnight Fiddler)
History (Midnight Fiddler)
Calvin and Hobbes (ZVX)

USEFUL ITEMS
HG2MB v.2008.1
Last Month’s DFTT
Ranting and Spazzing with Abundant Spoilers

Continued from Vol. I, No. 5.

August 1 is our beloved blog’s third birthday. Just think of it: three years with pie filling running down our faces. What a long, strange drip it’s been.

Waiter, a round of key lime for our multitudes of friends!

Known Muser birthdays this month:*

08-01 MuseBlog’s birthday (2005) = GAPA Appreciation Day
08-04 Capricious’s birthday (1994 – green and blue; rainbow)
08-04 Brendan The Science Whiz’s birthday (1995 – nothing)
08-04 Random Kokopelli’s birthday (1997 – rainbow)
08-09 RAWR’s birthday (1993 – deep red)
08-08 QueenOfAces’s birthday (1997)
08-11 Sobriquet’s birthday (1992)
08-11 Lawrence of Antarctica’s birthday (1994 – black)
08-13 Sora’s birthday (1992 – all shades of blue)
08-14 bulletproofmarshmallow’s birthday (1993)
08-15 Morbid’s birthday (1991)
08-16 The Bev’s birthday (1992 – green or blue)
08-16 rabbity24’s birthday (1994 – green)
08-21 Adeia’s birthday (1996 – green or purple)
08-21 Alice’s birthday (1993 – blue)
08-21 biblioRose’s belle jeune chose’s birthday (1995 – blue and yellow)
08-27 Nthanda the Laugher’s birthday (1991)
08-26 Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas’ birthday (1994 – purple pizzazz)
08-28 Sunrunner Bramblewood’s (=Dragonsrock828’s) birthday (1993)
08-29 Turquoise’s birthday (1995 – turquoise)
08-29 gnash’s birthday (1996 – green or blue)
08-30 Serafina/AvalonGirl’s birthday (1998 – Teal, bright purple, ethereal purple, pale misty blue, pumpkin orange)
08-31 Quintessentia’s birthday (1992 – golden)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between November 24 and December 24, 1994.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between February 28 and March 29, 1992.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

Robert just tweaked the code in a way that might have solved the comment-box problem. Or, as often happens in cases like this, it might have made things worse. Let us know anything you notice.

(If you’re using a browser other than Internet Explorer 7, you probably won’t notice anything at all. But you might. That’s how it is with computers.)

These are not RRRs but solo projects which share the same thread. Start your own, or just stop by and visit.

Continued from Muse Fanfiction, v. 2008.3.

Words & names you ♥ or just want to talk about. Hey, is ♥ a word?

Continued from version 2007.3.

(This includes the “What’s in a Name?” thread that several MBers have recently requested.)

Our biped heroes are still having a very bad day, but at least the evil hot-pink bunny William now looks slightly less than invincible (as well as considerably less pink).

Continued from Part Four.

*Role-playing game.

Continued from Part 4.

We celebrate his birthday every year, but clearly he deserves much more.

Requested by The Man for Aeiou.

We’re going to start a new game on the Chess thread if a Certain Person doesn’t move soon. Would anyone else like to play? If so, say so.

Thanks,

The Management

Time for another one of these. Continued from 2008.1.

Cabals, schemes, and machinations galore.

Continued from TK2K8P2.

The latest pie war, begun in World of Piecraft, Part 1, continues apace.

He may no longer be writing for Muse, but you can still read his “Mathematical Tourist” columns on the website of his now-employer, the Mathematical Association of America.

We liked Lady Bunniful’s Musesicles so much that we’ve revived them for the third installment of this month’s random thread. Continued from Part 2.

(Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!)

A perpetually hot topic. Continued from version 2007.2.

We tried team chess the first time around, and it eventually turned into one-on-one games. This time, let’s start with two-player games.

Results so far:
Purple Panda vs. TMFA: 2-0
Midnight Fiddler vs. Agrrrfishi: …
Adeia vs. Red-tailed HAWK: …
Taiwan Hippo Fan Raynpho vs. ZVX: …
Eragon vs. Logogeo96

(For reference, the squares are coded like this:)


BLACK

WHITE

Cat’s Meow wondered where this thread was. There wasn’t one! Now there is.

It’s time for another one of these. Be sure to post spoiler warnings if you’re posting any.

It’s called “Raw Materials,” and he posts it on a blog on the Discovery Channel’s Web site. It’s like “Peanuts” for nerds. Check it out!

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and everything is turning the color of Pepto-Bismol. Can the Musers possible prevail against the magenta menace?

Continued from Part Three.

As you may know, the Muse Fan Page (MuseBlog’s parent site) keeps a list of contents of every issue of Muse. Well, most issues, anyway: we’ve fallen down on the job since April 2007.

This is an area in which MBers can be of inestimable assistance. (Translation: HELP!!!) Please get out your back issues, record what’s in them, and post the results here. We’ll most gratefully add them to the list.

Thanks,

The Administrators