Meh, okay, so I wrote this up earlier then forgot to post it. Have it anyway, because there's cat art.

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Police chief: "[sensible-sounding idea politely expressed]" Reactionary MP: "[blah blah THINK OF THE CHILDREN]"

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McLaren promise their two drivers equality. Of course. It probably took a lot of careful wrangling to manipulate the championship to this exciting point. ;)

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Water buffalo's surprise arrival. Baby photos!

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Worker suspended over Jesus image and quite right too; this is an especially sickening example of Sacred Heart kitsch.

Here's some eye candy (shudders) for those who prefer to believe Jesus is hawt.

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Speaking of kitsch, Dunfermline Crematorium has had enough.

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Wee Man is still up a tree. *throws up the ears*

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Contraceptive pills for squizzers.

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Schizophrenia and creativity, not as tastelessly treated as you'd think.

And one of the comments mentions Louis Wain, who is a fascinating example. Here are some of Wain's paintings from healthy and ill periods. And he could in fact paint properly, too.

(ZOMG racism.)

edit: According to a friend whose psychology class mentions him, there wasn't actually a correlation between Wain's illness and the creepiness of his paintings. Heh, I'm almost disappointed; it's a great story.

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Universal avatars bestride worlds

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Wars in Africa wipe out aid gains

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[video] Gods I hate to hear this man talk. I'm so sorry for all you who live in the country and are forced to listen to this.

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Smith ticks off 'obsessed' hacks

I loathe that sort of journalism, and loathe the people who read (and thereby fund) it.

Also, all people should be available as XML feeds, then we could get at the bare content and style them however we like. *puts another tick in "world problems solved" list*

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[video] Barbie's Muslim rival

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[video] "I don't know much about this pope, so a story told by a cat would be very interesting."

("I'm a Roaming Catlick, and have been since before I was born..." Ahem.)

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Polish police end nun rebellion - nothing to add but that I really like the idea of rebel nuns. Rolling up their wimples on the bus and furtively denying the immaculate conception behind the bike sheds.

Well, most importantly, I learned that it's pronounced "droople". ;)

(Also that I'm in the minority by saying "micicle" where most people say "my-sequel". I can't resist it, though; it's too much fun to say.)

Other than that, while chatting to the organiser I brought up (what I guessed, from brief reading, to be) the main requirement I have of a CMS that could cause problems with Drupal's way of viewing the world. Thanks to having read through drupal.org in advance, I was able to convey this intelligently and ask the right sorts of questions.

*waits for disbelief to die down*

In brief, building on my last entry, this potentially problematic thing is creating sub-users as part of a user profile:

• a user can post as themselves (their main profile) on every type of node
• on some types of node, a user can post as any of their sub-users
• sub-users are switchable using a simple interface (with UI design issues here too, obviously)
• the switcher interface is only visible on the appropriate node types (this much I know should be easily done with *blanks and looks up the term* blocks or something similar)
• some site features are organised per user (user role/permissions, sitewide communication)
• some site features are organised per sub-user (though the main user gets one too) (blogs, 'profiles' which are also encyclopaedia entries)

For sub-user, of course, read "character". Aha, Ceiling Dog sees where I'm going with this.

I was told that I'm the first person to ask about this. Whee, I'm special! However, I'm also told that it should be possible, and that a module called Node Profile is what I need to look for.

Other random features I'll need — list may be updated as I think more:

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