The Air Force of Switzerland only is in operation from 8:00 to 12:00, and from 13:30 to 17:00, Monday through Friday. According to a Swiss Air Force spokesman, "Switzerland cannot intervene because its airbases are closed at night and on the weekend... It's a question of budget and staffing."

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So there is a group which periodically runs write-off competitions. They are short things, but often feature a lot of fairly solid writers writing new stories under fairly tight time constraints. This time, the theme was "History Repeats", and I felt one story in particular, The 18th Brewmare of Bluey Napoleon, deserved some recognition for being

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[url=http://www.amazon.com/Tengwar-Script-Prayer-Comfort-Stainless/product-reviews/B00HZV4PMQ/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_summary?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=byRankDescending&tag=io9amzn-20&ascsubtag=[type|link[postId|1608053286[asin|B00HZV4PMQ[authorId|5717568933837167078]It is a very nice ring, though.

I think my favorite was:

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I'm probably a bad person for spending so much time laughing at this tumblr. I blame society.

The Most Dangerous Game Contest has finally gotten through the first round and into the second. Five out of a whopping sixty-four valid entries were chosen by the judges, and now, you, the people, must vote.

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I saw an interesting story and thought I would point it out to other folks, as it hasn't gotten a whole bunch of views. Someone decided to make a bunch of fake newspaper front pages from the time of Rainbow Dash's first sonic rainboom, putting them together into a story of sorts, which can be found here.

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Many years ago, two poets named James McAuley and Harold Stewart set out to embarrass the world of modernist poetry. They felt that, while early modernist poetry had been a wonderful thing, it had later become hopelessly self-indulgent, with many modernist poems being nothing more than an incoherent mess. So, like many people in subsequent years, they decided to highlight the ridiculousness of modernist poetry - and a single publication of modernist poetry in particular, Angry Penguins -

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DRWolf has done a dramatic reading of The Stars Ascendant. I have been thrilled with how much everyone has enjoyed that story, and just today, the story passed 1000 upvotes and 6000 views… at the same time. It has also once more ascended into the top ten rated stories on the site; we'll see how long it stays there this

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Seriously, don't you go blind from doing that or something?

On a sadder note, apparently some big gay pride event happened and I did not write a single lesbian shipfic... or any other sort of story for that matter during that timespan. Clearly, I am a failure as a shipper.

For those of you who haven’t heard about it yet, Facebook recently published a study they did on their users’ emotional states in 2012. They randomly generated two groups of about 700,000 users, then used an automated system to manipulate their news feeds. For one group, they culled news posts containing more positive language and smiling, happy faces; for another, they culled posts containing more negative language and unhappy faces. They then measured the users’ own news posts over the course

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