As you have no doubt heard, a sequence of animatic clips from season four has been released. Of particular interest, at least to those of us who read way too far into the history and mythos of a children's cartoon, is a clip that seems to show Princess Luna's rebellion against Princess Celestia, and her subsequent transformation into Nightmare Moon. Either that, or Luna is going to turn into NMM again. If I weren't hyped already, I certainly am now.

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In my ongoing quest to wrest logical understanding from the world of magical, talking ponies, I've decided to tackle the most daunting obstacle I've yet encountered: Pinkie Pie.

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I've talked before about words which draw my ire. Last time, it was "headcanon". This time, it's "ponify".

Actually, strictly speaking, it isn't. I have nothing against the word "ponify" itself; it's nothing more than a ponification of "personify" (which makes ponify an autonym). It's some of the abuses of language done in the name of ponification to which I take issue.

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Ponies have fur. That's an established fact in the MLP canon. I talked a little while ago about what issues this fact presents to the beard-wearing population, and now I'm going to show that fur-related problems transcend gender barriers.

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Gizogin, for Celestia's sake, take it easy! You're going to have an aneurysm!

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I bear the curse of being able to grow fantastic facial hair, in a place and time where clean-shaven is the norm. Seriously, I can rock a mustache like nobody's business. Still, I must regretfully shave it all off regularly, the fruits of my follicles swirling down the drain like so much toothpaste.

It was during one such hair-culling that I struck upon a dilemma most troublesome. How do ponies shave? I mean, look at this guy:

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I'm lazy. That's a fact I've come to recognize and appreciate. Part of it, I can blame on my severe ADHD (for which I am heavily medicated), but a lot of it is just me. Over the years, I've come up with a tried-and-true method for combating my own laziness, which I hope now to disseminate to the masses. It's called "Active Procrastination".

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If there's one question I want answered about the universe of MLP:FiM, it's this: How does Equestria's sky work? What is the organization of its stars, planets, and heavenly bodies? How do the princesses fit into it all? Due to the paucity of relevant information, we can only speculate as to the answers. Happily, wild speculation is what I'm best at! I've actually come up with two possible explanations for what we've seen so far, one geocentric and one heliocentric, and I'll detail each

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No, no physics analysis this time. I'm working on one involving relative oxygen concentrations, but it's slow going. Instead, Equestria Girls.

I'm going to watch it. In theaters, if remotely possible. Yes, I've read the synopsis. You may flame and/or deride me at your leisure shortly. First, though, I'd like to give my reasons for wanting to see it (which is a bit weird to say, I suppose; in my case, though, the default reaction to a new movie announcement is complete apathy).

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I just need to get something off my chest: English units are awful. Who on Earth decided that the basic unit of length should be the foot? It's twelve inches, or 1/3 yard, or 1/5280 mile; what sort of numbers are those? The slug is a terrible unit for force, and whoever decided that the British Thermal Unit was a sensible idea should have been politely informed that he was a monumental idiot. SI units make sense! They're all chosen to make the maths as simple as possible. The hardest part

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