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Metl... 
Those toes look like the have been stubbed a million times over and over again...makes me wince (>_<) 
When You Get To The Fiend 
make sure he has eyes 
When You Get To The Shambler 
make sure he's listening to Westwo0o0o0od. 
Rpg :) 
The legs should be more emaciated. I can see the knobs at the ends of my own femurs for goodness' sake. 
In Your Head, In Your Head, ZOMBIE 
I've never seen the undead look so precious, metl.

Kind of like Young Frankenstein's monster with a flower in his hand, just before being rejected. 
Jokes Aside 
quality stuff, Metl 
Watch This Video 
you global-conditionally ignorant swine!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4237353244338529080 
Damn. 
I'm normally bored off my ass by politics, socio-economic data, and most forms of history in general, but that was pretty cool.

Screwed around at gapminder.org a bit too with their graphing software. Good stuff. 
Lun, 
Nice watch yeah. 
Megaman: 
sounds like the problem opera users have when "referer logging" is disabled. Does that help? 
Yeah It Was Rather Amusing And A Bit Informative 
But the Swedish accent was rather horrible 
Lol 
yes, that fixed the problem. why on earth would you disallow login without a referrer? 
MadFox 
I sent you an email reply Friday night, did you get that? 
Yeah 
received and bizzy exploring.
you did a great job! 
Metlslime Vs Zombie 
the head is way too rounded!
I demand square top 
 
so I`m at the new job, setting up the shizzle
all is cool and ppl are nice
seems like no IRC... but we`ll see about THAT :) 
Go Spds! 
you will make them wish you had irc! 
And Make Us Wish He Didn't! 
bunggg 
Pipes 
this is maybe a little bit off topic, but
sounds very interesting. unfortunately at
the moment unavailable (to much traffic)
- the new service yahoo.pipes -
but you can read more about it here:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/pipes_and_filte.html 
More Off Topic... 
http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/WolfeSoulDied.php

This seems to imply a really weird kind of determinism. Too late do I realize that I should have just deluded myself with spirituality. 
Hmm, Interesting Read 
which brings up lots of messy and interesting questions. Though this article implies heavily that issues of genetic determinism are extremely clear cut, and I don't know that reliable neuroscience actually says that at all.

Unfortunately at the end he wigs out and seems to conclude that science is going to rip itself apart looking for certainty...what? Dude, put down the Nietzsche and go and read Kant and Hume.

Still, worth the read. 
Chaos Theory 
Isn't there some inherent unpredictability in all systems though? When we talk about brain chemistry we're talking about molecular interaction, between neurons and neurotransmitters. Isn't there an arm of science that states there is an indelible 'chanciness' in all such things? 
 
Quantum Mechanics states that everything is based on probability rather than predictability, but at molecular levels the probability of something acting 'odd' is pretty small, and on larger levels like animals, planets, cells, etc the probability is so small that most oddities would happen once every existence of the universe or so, if that. But, there still is always the chance that a particle could disappear from its system and end up somewhere else, no matter how small the chance. 
Lun 
Yes and no. While there is chaos at all levels in our universe, there is also a force that creates order within that chaos, or else there would be no order at all (second law of thermodynamics). If you are interested and wanna read up, there is a fantastic introduction into this relatively new field of science. The book is called "Complexity" by Mitchell M. Waldrop: http://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Emerging-Science-Order-Chaos/dp/0671872346/sr=8-2/qid=1171052891/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-9067434-7020044?ie=UTF8&s=books

Also look here and follow up on the links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence 
Emergence 
Well, yeah, order can be developed in a system like that, but that isn't my point. If the same termites built the same colony under the same conditions it still wouldn't turn out identically every time. 
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