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Photoshop CS3 does indeed combine Image Ready with the main PS programme, which does cause some problems editing old gif animations. Whilst File>Import Movie allows you to work on stuff, it's not really appropriate for gif files from the brief glimpse i've seen. Adobe, being greedy money sucking scum, apparently want us to do this these days in Fireworks. I may be wrong, just hear say from others I know; i'm still on CS2 at work, and PS7 at home, until my copies' of CS2 & 3 arrive from my mate in Beijing.

Rest in peace fella, he gave us the Gelatinous cube, among lots of other things, and about my personal entertainment in the eighties His life has had profound meaning http://www.tribs.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/b3ta/Gygax.jpg Not mine, but to the point, he'll be rolling in his grave, I guess!

They are both photomashes. The photographer of the Golden-headed lion tamarin with a Meerkat's face is a professional photographer who normally does war-zones like Iraq but gave us (ZSL) a discount because he likes working with wildlife as a medium when he's not working with the army. The bottom piccy I simply found on a google image search for 'swimming' and added the duck, with some cloning of the water and some added Impact-Photoshop filter refelection

Agreed Despite some rather forgivable wooden acting at times, I don't really have a problem with Hayden in the role, and frown upon a lot of the criticism from the Star Wars community directed his way. Ewan has publicly stated he regrets ever getting involved with Star Wars (will he in thirty years time I wonder?) simply because of the horror of all the acting in front of blank screens, where as Hayden was a relatively inexperienced and young actor experienced far less to deal with this. His entire character sort of came out of nowhere in RotS, so I don't recall having any chance to have any character embodiment with him Don't really follow the EU, so can't comment on this, given it has no relevance to me I thought that was one of the best and most timely deaths in all the movies, given how obviously hard he was. A villan had to go at the end of the movie, I have no problem with Maul going at the time and manor inwhich he did.

Hahaha THE FACE OF GOLLUM?

Elections were suspended this side of the pond as well during WW2, and thank god they were. Unlike any conflict since WW2, except perhaps the Cuban missile crisis, this was a national emergency for both of our countries (and I appreciate everybody else as well!) You can't have national elections in a situation where your nation's very survival is being played out. Also figure this, in our case Chamberlain went to Germany and returned waving a piece of paper from an plane promising 'peace for our time,' having dealt with the devil. He was humiliated when Nazi-Germany invaded Poland, and a certain Churchill replaced him and won us that long war. Things may have been other than they were if Chamberlain remained as Prime Minister. Churchill ran for the office again after the war, and lost. Perhaps better as a bastion of British defiance than a peace-time Prime Minister. Who knows. I must say this as an 'outsider,' and to be honest I couldn't really care that much who gets the democratic nomination, given the Republican Party seems to have red-shifted so far to the right, it's utterly cringe worthy to view as a spectator, and I might even take up a religion in my desperation not to have a repeat of the likes of another Bush in the White house again, or any of these evangelical Christians anywhere near it; but how 'democratic' is your country's method of selecting a President or potential-President in the first place? The rest of the world gasps and reels when we grasp how much money is spent on your electoral campaigns, much of which is spent on manipulative media campaigns influencing the minds of the electorate. Sure we have the same here and everywhere where there is democracy, but your levels of expenditure put the rest of us into shadow, even considering your population.

If you think that looks odd, you check out the next generation of Destroyers the British and Americans are building: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_45_destroyer this is the British Type 45 Destroyer, which will be the most advanced and combat effective Destroyer of it's class on the ocean "After Daring's launch on 1 February 2006, former First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Alan West stated that it would be the Royal Navy's most capable destroyer ever, as well as the world's best air defence ship.[3] The Daring class represents the largest escort type ever built for the Royal Navy" I recall the United States planning something similar, but can't it find on wikipedia

Leontopithecus suricatta: http://www.jahled.co.uk/Leontopithecus_suricatta_b3.jpg The Meertamarin Also: This is going to be one startled duck when it resurfaces.. http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/9805/1203261175/Lunchtimelossy.jpg I think the tiger is already reaching for the Hoi-Sin sauce

Hahaha Cthulhu by the look in his eyes! I'm to busy to visit here at work these days, and still have an annoying delay between clicking anything here to last to long at home

One of the joys of RA2 were the editing tools available, especially with the Yuri's Revenge expansion pack. The map I modded with a para drop with Einstein and a pack of dogs still brings tears to the ears, 'Where is my chalk?' I think he shouts as he descends to the ground. But yes, it must move on from the Soviet-era stuff, so addressing stuff like a bellicose China, various religious nutters in the middle east, is a welcome change and target for my guns

Haha I'm trying to picture this, so it 'shoots' tanks to the shore? Seriously though, i'm looking forward to this, given the Red Alert series have been about the most fun games I have played, on my own or on a LAN network in a cyber cafe. The 'no Yuri' bit looks promising given all that mind controlling opponent's units with the Yuri's Revenge expansion pack shuved gameplay into the absurd IMO, though the Holywood campaign was unforgettable, having Arnie at your fingertips

*Drools* Looks like the Russians have developed their tesla technology..

Yay! About the most fun game I have ever played, and to easily mod Without all the telepathy I hope this time, just good old fashioned game play, as opposed to much Generals complexity, I gave up upon

This sounds quite undemocratic to me. Family member of a former president is a citizen as anyone else and thus should treated as such. By disallowing him candidacy, you're basically limiting his rights and treating him differently based on his family background (which is one of the few things in life he couldn't choose). Although I agree that having two dynasties for such a long time at least stinks, 'blaming' the candidates seems like a wrong fix (and for the wrong problem). I don't see a problem with Hilary following her husband's two terms, and creating her own legacy in her own right as a separate human individual. Good luck to the woman, I might in fact lay my voice on the poll above, given it is of opinion she doesn't represent as principals religious stuff I find morally repugnant like what is encapsulated with the republican candidates, besides McCain. If the Republican party is seriously questioning his credentials as their potential candidate because he is opposed to this religious anti-abortion crap, same sex civil-ceremony thing, then may it fail like it should do. Times have moved on, their nasty Bible-belt world is not one I want to live in, the more so it apparently now involves the bullshit of creationism. But I guess I don't have to given I live in the UK, and if anyone spouts crap like that in public, they are sincerely frowned upon. A shame the bloke seems to be otherwise a complete nutter. Obama's apparent charm and charisma resonates with to much polished perfection for my liking for his age, though I do respect him for his initial stance on campaign funding. I simply feel he needs a another decade yet.

Afghanistan was a thoroughly justified war to wage against the Taliban we armed during the cold war, given they harbored terrorists responsible for numerous evil deeds besides even 9/11, who's extremist version of Islam stems from the Saudi-Arabia and the religious schools they finance in Pakistan, our refills at petrol stations pay for. It was also a thoroughly winnable war by NATO and a retrained Afghanistani National army before some Neocons behind the throne in the White House lost the plot and got to adventurous with their political vision of the world with the world and wage war in Iraq. But there you go, tune in to to much radio shock jocks first thing as you drive to work ranting about the world through emotional response rather than thoughtful introspection, and their you have it, a Caligula for the 21st Century; voted in by a nation, laughed at for being an ignorant imbecile, and equally feared for the destruction his reign has wrought, by the rest of the world. Without Iraq, we would could have largely militarily eradicated this Islamic extremist infestation and made it's apparent attraction to twats far less with rebuilt civil infrastructure in Afghanistan with the obvious benefits to the Afghanistani population, and probably helped the Pakistani army make some inroads in bringing some order to the north of their country where these Islamic muppets 'hide.'

Ouch! I hope the guy is all right

I don't think zoological collections 'sell' animals to one another these days, rather exchange endangered animals for the sake of gene pools and the preservation of endangered species. That little ball of fluff that melted the hearts of the world has grown in a year though, into a top of the chain predator capable of decapitating a human with one casual swipe of it's furry arm.. It occurred to me last night at midnight when I stopped writing I'm actually writing a book at the moment, be it about the most boring read since the last thing that made you fall asleep

And half way in the door, Scathe vanished in a puff of smoke..

Ah, a spring clean! Nice one E, this may take a moment or two to get used to!

Why?

Had to call out the National Guard (those federal bastards!) at one point to escort some black guys to school, if i'm not mistaken. I wonder if they ever got a seat on the bus because they were black

McCain is an odd one, I say as an obvious outsider. I read the 'serious newspapers' this side of the pond, so like to think I have probably more of a realistic understanding of potentially the most powerful man on the planet other than what's in the silly papers for the lazy/working class. What attracts me to him is his apparent 'liberal' edge to Republican politics, ie: not curling up to the various religious lunatics on the right who do stuff like like oppose women's right to abortion, question evolution, justify scum like Al-Qaeda with questionable 'spiritual beliefs' without realizing, and affording neocon's a free reign on diplomatic policy which has reduced the US to the status of a rampant warmonger in the eyes of the rest of the industrialized western world. The very fact his 'conservative' credentials are open to question within the Republican Party warms me to the guy, as it reminds me at what disgusts at so much of the Republican Party stands for. What disturbs me are things like his comment that North Korea should face extinction, and some song concerning Iran being bombed to the tune of the Beach Boys. Hilarious stuff for a potential diplomatic statesman in command of the most formidable arsenal on the planet. Think how this goes down elsewhere. As for the Democrats, I think it was a shame John Edwards couldn't build more momentum; from what I read and understood, part of his message was the insanity of all this presidential-campaign funded bollocks, the amount of money spent is insane, and to be be frank offensive all over the place if you think about about, where ever your charitable leanings. But there you go, the Clinton/Obama clash evolves; not entirely sure yet as an outsider, though leaning to Hilary. My UK five pence

I've obviously been reading about this, but apparently that other bear Knut has grown somewhat since his fluffy little introduction to to the world last year, like Polar Bears do, and is apparently alarmingly large for that keeper who hand-reared him to get as close to these days.. What do you do? Let mum eat them if she rejects them, or act with humane instinct? A hard choice. I have a few photos of Meerkats eating a 'new litter' one morning.

I'll just drop this in here for no reason other than the an awkward angle: But all those flags at the ceremony at the end of ANH represented worlds committed to the rebellion, according to the original book I know nothing of the game codes, however, though good luck!

APOLOGY ACCEPTED CAPTAIN EAGLE.. Seriously, late woos and yays from me guys!