New Site for Registering Micronations

The King of Aeroxiana is working on a new site for registering micronations:

New Site for Registering Micronations



This seems like it will be a good thing.

Flags

I've been designing some flags.


East Anglian-Frisian Commonwealth


England


North Atlantic Union


North Francia


Wessex

That is all.

XKCD Sucks Sucks III

http://xkcdsucks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/comic-1350-proof-we-were-right-all-along.html

1350: The whole point of a comic is to be popular. Wait, not the whole point, but a major point. People don't post things online for them to be ignored. They post them online to be seen. And the best way of doing that? Involve the people looking at it. Plus, the jokes and references are what the people looking at xkcd find funny. If people find it funny, then it's funny. That is, believe it or not, how you test for something being funny. Overall, I am highly disappointed with your fatuous analysis of this great xkcd comic.

XKCD Sucks Sucks II

http://xkcdsucks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/comic-1345-fencing-terms.html

1345: Your point? R--

XKCD Sucks Sucks

Here, I will rebut every single point XKCD Sucks makes that I disagree with. Hopefully, you will see that website for what it is: someone who doesn't understand humour trying desperately to pretend that they do.

First up, their most recent post.

• 1272: The joke isn't that facts about shadows exist. The joke is that there was a horse in LoTR called Shadowfax, who says facts about shadows. Only a single example of a shadow fact is needed to establish this. Any more shadow facts, and it would cease to be funny. D
• 1273: No, it's funny because real infographics are sometimes shitty, and that is an example of one of the shittiest infographics. It also provides commentary on the uselessness of infographics as a medium of communication. F
• 1275: What's so "LOLRANDUM" about it? It's funny because of the absurdity: clearly, in real life, nobody would go to those lengths to avoid using the number "3". E
• 1276: This isn't a shitty infographic. It's a non-shitty infographic. U
• 1277: That's just a pun used in the title, not the content of the joke. The real joke is that Randall Munroe believes that Ayn Rand's ideas are absurd, to the point of being comparable to some numbers being "intrinsically better". D
• 1278: You really got XKCD there! I bet that Munroe will stop making comments when he reads your detailed dissertation on why you believe this comic is inferior.
• 1279: Well, you've correctly identified what literally 68% of comedy is. It's progress, I suppose.
• 1280: See counter-review for comic 1278. Nobody cares if you care, since I care and other people care. Funny aspects of Mundroe's persona's life, are, in fact, funny. Hard to comprehend, I know.
• 1281: It suggests that Lego people are a significant threat to humanity. Lego people are not a significant threat to humanity. Therein lies the remaining 32% of humour.

Messages from Creationists, Answered

The source of the creationist claims are here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/messages-from-creationists-to-people-who-believe-in-evolutio. I'm going to answer them.

1. Yes. The truth is positive.
2. No. I'm apatheist.
3. Yes.
4. No.
5. Earth rotates.
6. They don't.
7. It's incorrect.
8. You don't.
9. Yes.
10. I kind of like this. It would be nice to have on a shirt, or an email forward or something.
11. They don't.
12. More transitional hominids/apes were found.
13. Yes.
14. Reality supports it.
15. Science isn't.
16. Natural selection.
17. None.
18. We have found multiple Lucies. Fossils form rarely.
19. Yes.
20. Amazingness doesn't imply intelligent origins.
21. Don't know yet.
22. We didn't.

Well, there you have it. 22 messages from Creationists, 22 answers from an apatheist.

Kerbal Diaries: Manned Solid Booster S2

 The launch begins. Bill Kerman has set out to ensure that Jebediah's sacrifice was not in vain.

 The lower SRB explodes, allowing the rocket to launch into the air

 Of course, Bill knows better than to stay in the ship. He jumps out, leaving it to complete its mission with no control.

Sadly, the mission is not a success. The Solid Booster S2 is almost completely annihilated on contact with the ground.