Case in counterpoint, Dwarf Fortress and it's most active forum frequented and responded to by the game creator. He answers questions, takes (in an ineffable manner) suggestions, and otherwise participates in the enjoyment of his game. Example: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=60554.msg1848408#msg1848408 Dwarf fortress: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Dwarf_Fortress:About

The carbonate igneous mineral is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonatite . We get them up in ontario in and around Bancroft.

This makes me cry.

The last requirement: * Detail oriented - taking data, using Excel, and making meaningful tables/graphs/averages. Wow, I'm glad you have to do in-depth analysis there.

Community view (people reporting with lat/lon): http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/2010xwa7/us/index.html Report your own experience: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/2010xwa7/us/form.en.enabled.html

The link I included is a comment from the developer that added it to Ars. Some of the later comments are fairly aggressive.

Also from the comment thread (note the job titles of the commenters):

Kurt ( Tech Director ):You guys should whitelist Ars in your ad blockers. Blocking ads makes my foster baby cry.

Clintology ( Developer / Proj. Manager ): Please whitelist ars in your ad blockers.

We make nearly all our money by selling campaigns which are promises to deliver a set number of ad impressions. Ad blockers make it increasingly hard for us to meet those (you can imagine with a site full of technically inclined people we have a lot of ad blockers), which makes it harder for us to sell campaigns in the future.

Thus we make much less money and we have to fire our employees and friends, obviously can't pay for high-quality authors, and can't add cool features to the site, which really sucks (I presume you read Ars because you appreciate the scope and quality of our articles).

We don't run annoying ads and we don't run very many ads.

Another alternative is to purchase an Ars Subscription which removes ads and gives you lots of other cool stuff too.

On a Mac, bibdesk wins hands down. It'll store and sort, search, use external editors, etc. Open source, and uses bibtex. http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/

More details on the CBC site(http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/12/22/supreme-court-libel-responsible-journalism-citizen-star.html?ref=rss), including the actual checklist: Excerpt from Supreme Court ruling The defence of public interest responsible communication will apply where: A. The publication is on a matter of public interest and: B. The publisher was diligent in trying to verify the allegation, having regard to: * The seriousness of the allegation; * The public importance of the matter; * The urgency of the matter; * The status and reliability of the source; * Whether the plaintiff's side of the story was sought and accurately reported; * Whether the inclusion of the defamatory statement was justifiable; * Whether the defamatory statement’s public interest lay in the fact that it was made rather than its truth (“reportage”); and * Any other relevant circumstances.