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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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Infinite questions, and a non-zero number of answers. Fire away.

Continued from No. 6.

What do you want to see on the blog, at Musery Loves Company, or anywhere else in the GAPAs’ domain? Let your voices be heard!

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.

*Role-playing game, in this part of the multiverse.

Continued from Part One, unless our chronosynclastic infundibulum has malfunctioned.

MuseBlog came into being four years ago this month. To celebrate our anniversary, we’re dedicating this month’s Random Thread to our beloved blog itself. As August passes, we’ll cycle through a gallimaufry of images from threads gone by. Read more »

Are you new to MuseBlog? You must have questions, and we’d like to meet you. Make this thread your first stop for pie and advice.
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Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here, when they’ve scrolled off the main page. (Making you re-request these every month helps to weed out the no-longer-fit.) Maybe we’ll actually manage to paste a few of them in this month. Read more »

Known Muser birthdays this month*:

1 August – MuseBlog (2005), Armada’s birthday (1996),
3 August – AJAR (1992)
4 August – Brendan (1995), Random Kokopelli (1997)
7 August – Koppar
8 August – QueenOfAces (1997), small but fierce
9 August – RAWR
21 August – Adeia (1996), Alice (1993)
27 August – Nthanda the Laugher (1991), Kiga (1997), Rainbow (1997), Errata
28 August – Sunrunner Bramblewood (1993)
29 August – Turquoise (1995), gnash (1996)
30 August – AvalonGirl (1998)
31 August – Quintessentia (1992), shriya siolashrwa jeffica (1992)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between November 24 and December 24, 1995
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between February 27 and March 29, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between June 4 and July 3, 1990.

You will have been on MuseBlog for six months if you started posting in February.

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

*Role-Playing Game.

As you wish, because MBers’ appetite for spells, shape-shifting, and levitation is infinite and insatiable.

Continued from Part 5.

*Round Robin ‘Riting

Museblog once published
The Iliad in haiku.
Now, this haiku thread.

In which MuseBloggers guess how other MBers look and what they wear. (“Physiognomy” is a fancy word for “face.”)

Continued from 2009.1.

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

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

Year after year, the SSSSs keep coming — stupider and more senseless than ever, but kaleidoscopically clever and irresistibly appealing. There’s just something about them…

Continued from version 2008.3.

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Since the old one was, well, old. And as Jadestone pointed out, more people are thinking about this now that weren’t then.

Continued from the 2008 version.

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

Continued from v. 2008.3.

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

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RoseQuartz needs an opponent. Any volunteers? This weird type of chess, found only on MuseBlog, gives each player seven queens. You can see the board by clicking below. Read more »

Discussion of this film could easily take over the whole blog, so please confine it to this thread.

WARNING: ABUNDANT SPOILERS ARE INEVITABLE HERE.