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Ouch. The dangers of social media and keeping an eye on your personal data I guess.. Open Letter to New York Comic Con - Protect Our Secret Identities

Given the minimal mechanical changes between titles, if you're not playing AC for the plot, I'm flabbergasted as to why you'd ever buy more than one of them. What, you don't play it to be able to climb up historic monuments and gawk at the pretty views?

Okay, to return to an assortment of clothed ladies... A blonde, a "redhead", and a brunette...

Well it might be a few months old, but I thought this might catch some folks fancy.. DNA Fog

Just to throw in the odd article from io9.. io9 - The Backfire Effect shows why you can't use facts to win arguments

After that hit on my savings to get a working pc, I'm economising in a big way. Although one of the fans on my graphics card has started to make grinding noises whenever I boot up, so I'm kind of crossing my fingers and hoping it doesn't go on me in the next few months.

The Blacklist. They certainly seem to be scattering hooks around for mysteries and wotnot. Spader's keeping a nice spin going for that criminal mastermind aspect. I think it'll be interesting to see how they develop this, and just how long they keep putting in small further engimas before they start expanding on them or providing a few answers. Even if the answers lead to other questions...

For a classic moment.. http://youtu.be/y2R3FvS4xr4

Illum kind of does the "small Hoth" visual side, but has some semi-interesting missions. Corellia does the grim, brooding, "war-is-hell", city damage vibe. But is just such a grindy-piece of suck mapdesign and storywise that I loathe it to the abyss.

Worth it for Emma Watson's appearance with a fire axe I think...

Well not exactly dinner, but pulling out some nigiri for a late lunch snack..

Dog-sitting again. He's still not recovered from that biopsy, and the painkillers really don't seem to be effective. Having a german shepherd that has a fairly constant pain-filled whine/whimper and not being able to get comfortable .. Not sure what I can really do , but I can understand why my sister couldn't leave him home alone like this.

Having a re-run of DEHR this weekend.. I still love the music.

Dang, now I'm tempted to get a superburger from the kebab shop tonight..

Definitely having that cold drop in the weather, made it much harder to push myself out of bed this morning.... Well my sister's german shepherd has just come back from the vets after having what's likely to be a cyst removed from his tail. Since he's whimpering in pain a lot and slightly doped, she's dropped him off with us for the day while she goes to work... Now I'm sitting down to sort out mom's drugs for the next week. Oh how fun the syllables...

http://youtu.be/rDtFoPWBoLc

Well it's based on an old 70's British sci-fi show that ran for about 6 years, so I'm curious to see how it'll shape up with a modern American turn.

Hm, if you've got all the level 7 ship upgrades, those high level space missions aren't hard once you get the rhythm of them. Sure, getting every single one of the "bonus" aspects is hard, but once you pick up the basic tricks completing the mission along with one or two of the bonus is fairly smooth sailing. It really comes down to flipping the power converter back and forth and knowing when to use the EMP and such in the mission.

Eh, I wouldn't say that really explains it. Besides, does that mean you missed the bit where Coulson is trying to figure out how come he doesn't seem to have some muscle memory he used to have? That tends to suggest things like clone or LMD more then purely a faked death...

Well it's not new, but it's still a nice article: io9 - Cool Physics Demonstration Granted, not all laminar flow is inherently reversible, but there's almost always something more orderly about it. Flow lines that are laminar are often described as "coherent." It's a word that conveys consistency, order and unification. It stands in stark contrast against the disorder observed in what are known as "turbulent" flows. Laminar flows over an airplane wing are a good thing. Turbulent flows, unsurprisingly, give rise to nasty turbulence aren't actually responsible for the turbulence you experience on an airplane, but rather what are called "turbulent boundary layers," which – as nsharp points out below – leads to an increase in both drag and fuel-usage. One thing the Reynolds number does really well is collect the various conditions that affect the flow of a fluid, and combine them to determine whether they might give rise to laminar or turbulent flow, or how a flow can transition from one state to another. In the demonstration seen here, for example (borrowed from this study by J. P. Kubitschek and P. D. Weidman), increasing the velocity at which a viscous liquid jet is rotating causes its rotational Reynold's number to increase, in turn resulting in a transition from laminar flow: To turbulent flow: This effect is also how we get gorgeous images like these. (Fun fact: you may notice there's still some "order" to this high Reynolds number, turbulent-flow. That's because rotating jets of viscous liquid jets tend to demonstrate a preference for what are known as "helical instabilities." The more you know, right?) Just to clarify, something that the previous demonstration illustrates is that Reynolds number is not constant for any particular fluid. Remember: "R" is a quantity that describes several different factors, all of which are subject to change in and of themselves. A fluid's density, for instance, changes with temperature, and a fluid's speed can change dramatically depending on the forces acting upon it. Scientists and engineers weigh these properties to determine Reynolds number for a variety of applications, whether it's designing a city's sewer infrastructure or – a personal favorite – describing the motion of self-propelled organisms in water: Table of self-propelled organisms by Vogel via Hitech Projects Note that the Reynolds number range from very large values to very small, across a variety of water-dwelling organisms. The numbers indicate that for more massive organisms, like a whale, the effects of inertia dominate those of viscosity. This allows whales to coast for long periods of time with every stroke of their fins. Conversely, bacteria must contend with a small Reynolds number, denoting the strong influence of viscosity. A whale in motion will tend to stay in motion. A bacterium? Not so much.