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Courtesy ESA Mars Express, via @andrealuck

Since I had literally hundreds of mostly unwanted random creatures in cages for various reasons, I at one point decided to make an effort to make a setup that would pop them out of the cage via a distant lever to greet invading armies. This was, in the end, a totally useless endeavor. The logical place for the cages was inside...

I already posted Frederick Douglass for the 4th, so here's a counter balancing factor: An explicitly pro-American viewpoint talking knowledgeably and at length about leadership and geopolitics, how he likes George Washington and the Boy Scouts, calling the Russian military "pathetic," stuff like that, without being in any way a...

Whatever else happens in the coming days with the presidential election, the whole saga will permanently affect my understanding of the culture of The New York Times.

This is the story of one fort, in which I had to completely rebuild the military mostly from scratch three different times. With all parts it is a little long, but it didn't seem to work to separate the pieces. Apologies and hope you enjoy....

I don't know how I managed it, but somehow when I was constructing a staircase, I left a big hole in the floor that opened up into the top of a cavern, and didn't notice. The only real impact was that from time to time a bugbat would fly up and wander in, and I would find a loose bugbat mucking around in the lower levels of my...

So. It was in the early hungry days of my fortress, when the military is half a dozen guys with wood crossbows who can't shoot, when everything is big mining and grand plans and challenges of lacking basic infrastructure, and no unpleasant memories walled off forever in some secret corner of the fort. That, and realizing there's...

Hey -- so I just noticed the ban yesterday....

Courtesy of @otterX

BBC story if you don't like the vidya