Wednesday, 15 May 2024

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Movies, v. 2012

Remember to post spoiler warnings, please!

Continued from Movies, v. 2009.2.


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Happy 133rd Birthday, Albert Einstein!

Born on March 14, 1879, Einstein made the world universe a much more counterintuitive place. Thanks, Herr Professor!


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It’s Pi Day!

And a blog — a place dedicated to pastry, mirth, and world conquest — obviously wouldn’t disregard one of its favorite days.


Visual Arts, v. 2012

Whatever your medium, if it’s visual, here’s a place to talk about it, dream about it, or share ideas.

Continued from Visual Arts, 2011.


Tess and Cat’s Meow, Summer 2011

Tess and Meow hiding behind magazines

Sorry we took so long to upload these pictures. (No excuses — we forgot we had them.) More below the fold…

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You Know You’re Addicted to X When You Y


Chokoholics, video-game addicts, manga fiends — tell us how you know when you’ve crossed the line.

Continued from version 2011.


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Lizzie’s Recital

Rather than moving a lot of sound files, we’re posting a link so you can hear it on Soundcloud as long as she keeps it there. Enjoy!


Staving Off February

KaiYves has asked us to repost this piece of classic MuseBlogiana. Great idea, Kai!

Back in April 2008, UberMuser Grant O. sent us some sound files of narration for a proposed slideshow about ways to survive winter. He called it “Staving Off January.”

Before we knew it, Midnight Fiddler had drawn up some storyboards, and a New Zealand MBer named Zoe (who then went by Treble_Cone_Freeskier) turned them into a real multimedia presentation.

Here it is, to help you get through the rest of the winter:

Staving Off January.

Poems and Songs, v. 2012

Hail, Poetry, thou heav’n-born maid!
Thou gildest e’en the pirate’s trade.
Hail, flowing fount of sentiment!
All hail, all hail, divine emollient!

–Gilbert and Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance
(and yes, they knew they were being over the top)

Continued from version 2011.


Music, v. 2012

Listening, playing, performing, composing.

Continued from v. 2011.


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Geeky TV Shows, v. 2012

Yes, those TV shows.

Continued from v. 2010.2. We don’t know what happened to 2011.


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What I Learned Today, 2012

Piggy’s description:

We could share factoids we’ve read, advice from personal experience, observations about the world, what-have-you. Everyone learns something new every day, and I’d like a place to share.

Continued from v. 2011.2.


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Quotations, v. 2012

Your wish is our command.

Continued from version 2011.


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Happy Friday the Thirteenth!

It is well known that Friday the 13th is an unusually lucky day for MuseBloggers. (More fortunate still, 2012 has three of them.) Below, please note any instances of particularly good fortune that befall you today.


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Coy Woodnesse, v. 2012

For communicating in other languages and in variants of this one.

Continued from version 2009.1.

If you need accent marks, here are some to copy and paste:

à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ù ú û ü ¿ ¡

And

ß


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Style, Fashion, and Costume, v. 2012

Continued from a diverting but ancient thread launched in 2009.


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Happy Birthday, Professor Tolkien!

The author of The Lord of the Rings was born on January 3, 1892, and thus would have been 120 (twelvety?) years old today.


The Hare and Hedgepig, v. V

As a Courtesy to Your Fellow Patrons,
Please Leave All Electronic Devices and Projectile Pastries with Our Pie Check Department
Formal Dress Required
Continued from Vol. IV.

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Chess: Tesseract vs. Choklit Orange


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Chess Eterna-ment Rankings, 2012

Here are the chess ratings as we enter 2012 (numbers in parentheses indicate number of games on which the rating is based). Ratings will be updated every time a game ends. You can also this thread to arrange online chess games with other MBers.

Latest update: 27 June 2012

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Chess: Bibliophile vs. Trojan Tiger


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Chess: Pseudonym vs. Bibliophile


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In the News

A thread for discussing things that are happening, as they happen.


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The Polling Place, v. 2011.2

We didn’t need a poll to figure out we could use a new Polling Place.

Continued from v. 2011.1.


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Computer and Video Games, v. 4.0

Continued from v. 3.0, and ready for beta testing.


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