Monday, 21 April 2025

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Happy Autumn!

The autumnal (fall) equinox for the Northern hemisphere occurs on Tuesday, September 22 at 11:tk Universal Time or 6:TK blog time. ‘Tis the season (peak pie season, among other things)!

And to our friends in New Zealand and other antipodean regions, happy spring!


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Chess: bookgirl_me vs. mas0n — 1-0

Here you go! As White, bookgirl_me moves first.
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“Talk Like a Pirate” Day 2009

This year it be on Saturday, September 19. What be ye doin’ fer it, mateys? Read more »


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The Grander Scheme of Things

A place where you can discuss any aspect of life in terms of its ethical, epistemological, ontological, psycho-sociological, or other intellectual implications.


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Style, Fashion, and Costume

Something different, by popular request.


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Chess Game: Ducky vs. Lovely Lunegood

Here’s your game! Read more »


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Musers Unaware

KaiYves asked:

“Does anyone think it would be a good idea to award some kind of annual “Muser Unaware” awards to people or organizations outside of the blog who have promoted Musery in their own, unintentional way?”

We agree with Errata: why stop there? Use this thread to recognize inadvertent agents of Muserliness.


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Attention, Chessplayers!

We’ve just installed a new version of the “Chess by Blog” plug-in, which is supposed to solve the “closed board” problems some of you have been having with Internet Explorer. Please let us know if you notice any difference.


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Turbo Chess: Jakob Wonkychair vs. bookgirl_me — 0-1

Ready when you are, JW and bg_m! Read more »


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Movies, v. 2009.2

Remember to post spoiler warnings (ending in periods), please!

Continued from Movies, v. 2009.1.


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MuseBlogeography

It all started with Tesseract’s civics class and a pair of Alaskan fish socks…and continued well past the limit of nested replies, so here’s a thread where you can talk about your state (or province or country): a chance to play mythbuster or mythmaker or just be silly about the state (or province or country) you call home.


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Amherst Kokonvention, September 2009

A pack of MBers and their parents rallied on Saturday (September 5) in Amherst, Massachusetts. This is their story.


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Cooking and Food, v. 2009

They’re things we all have in common, yet we haven’t had a new thread about them since last year. So what are we waiting for? Let’s eat talk about eating!


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Chess Game: SudoRandom vs. Sequoia, Part 2

Sequoia: Let’s see if this game will let you move now. Read more »


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Plays/Acting/Theatre/Theater, v. 2009

The last thread devoted to this topic started in 2007. It’s high time for another one.


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Chess: Kiga vs. Ducky — 0-1 ADJUDICATED

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Ships, Seamanship, and the Sea

(including tall ships and very large lakes).

At least one MBer has recently run away to sea and returned; others have dabbled in matters maritime and notions nautical; still others just like reading about them. Here’s a place to talk about the whole watery Weltanschauung.


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Manga, Anime, and Graphic Novels, v. 2009

Continued from v. 2007.2.


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MB Chessplayers — Your Help Is Needed!

Some of you report that you haven’t been able to move your pieces since we upgraded the blog’s chess software around the end of July. We’d like to solve the problem but need more information.

  • Can anybody move, or is it a universal outage?
  • If you can’t move, have you tried clearing your browser’s cache (not just the browsing history, but the actual cache of Web pages that your browser stores to make them easier to load)?
  • What sort of message do you see when you try to move? Does it say “closed board,” or does it tell you it’s waiting for your move and then fail to accept it?

(Of course, some of you probably have gotten tired of chess and stopped playing, but if anyone wants to keep playing, we’d like to make it possible.)
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Religion and Religions, v. 2009.2

Continued from version 2009.1.

Reminder: This is a place for careful, clear, respectful discussions. We expect MBers to be able to express their opinions without attacking others personally AND to be able to listen to people who disagree with them without feeling personally attacked.


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Chess: bluefire27 vs. RoseQuartz

bluefire27: Try again, please. It should be working now.

 
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40th Anniversary of the 1st Moon Landing

“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” Read more »


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Capablanca Chess: The Bookworm vs. Piggy

 
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The Polling Place, v. 2009.1

In which MuseBloggers gather data about that ever-popular topic, one another.

Continued from v. 2008.3.


Random Fact(oid)s, 2009

Requested by Silver Lining, who probably can’t remember the previous thread of this type.
 

ATTENTION: NEW RULE!

 
Henceforth (starting on July 11), anyone posting a piece of information here must say where the information came from. Reason: Including the source will help other MBers decide how accurate a factoid is and whether it is worth repeating.
 
–Your beneficent Administrators