I downloaded the first few episodes of firefly back in the day after seeing it mentioned here many times and not finding it on any tv channel I had access to.. I liked the show and proceeded to buy the entire series and the movie on dvd from amazon. I will likely do the same with GoT eventually..

In other Game of Thrones news the residents of Tristan da Cunha (a very remote island in the south atlantic) have apparently adopted Dothraki as an official language and are big into GoT LARPing.. they also don't have HBO.

Maybe that's the plan all along.. someone (or some group) somewhere is pushing young kim to make a fool of himself and his country so that he can then be deposed and NK can finally be rid of the old dynasty..

Or maybe they are all just nuts.

Does this mean there are actually females of the Jedi persuasion as well?! The mind boggles.

It would have to be..

According to this..

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/11/meteorite_life_claims_of_fossils_in_a_meteorite_are_still_wrong.html

Just a few days ago the new TV series "Vikings" started and they happened to feature a sunstone.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2306299/

Well timed I'd say!

In case you missed it I'm sure it can be found at a certain viking torrent site.. ;) [which I don't condone of course]

I would expect nothing less than pickup lines and test cases written only in the purest Perl.

Seems like the obvious solution would involve herding them into the right place and then have a portly Texan setup a BBQ in front.. or maybe that bengal tiger from Life of Pi would do the trick.

Not sure how it would affect milk yields though.

Did the GNOLD one resign?

you've met my wife!

Chock Norris strafes highways with a roundhouse kick.

Yes the open uni is great and they provide much more support and interaction with tutors but it is also considerably more expensive than london uni if you are outside the uk.

London Uni has actually been offering distance learning degrees for far longer than the open uni (or any other) but you are more or less on your own after they send you the course notes and reading lists although some courses/colleges in london uni also offer summer schools and such things, for an additional fee.

You can do a BSc entirely by distance learning through London Uni (apart from the exams which you sit at a British Council office anywhere in the world) and it is also relatively cheap.

http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/goldsmiths/bsc-computing-information-systems-bsc-diploma-work-entry-route

They have many other undergrad & postgrad courses too.

Dude, this is slashdot.. ;)