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Over 2,400 extinct titles are contained in these tables and are organized alphabetically by their title. - Halil from Bookmarklet

afaik a lot of peerages became extinct after WWI as loads of aristos sent their kids off as officers only for them to die and hence their titles, can anyone confirm this please? - Halil

Those peerages include the dates on which they became extinct in the rightmost column; a lot of them look to be before 1900 (those without dates) and not many of the rest appear to be around the WW1 era. - Mark H

Since he cancelled, I'd ask, but have him pick the time/day. If he's not willing to be specific, I'd move on. - Jennifer Dittrich

Good call. - SAM

"A bill filed by Republican lawmakers would allow North Carolina to declare an official religion, in violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Bill of Rights, and seeks to nullify any federal ruling against Christian prayer by public bodies statewide." - Eric - seven eleven from Bookmarklet

except for the unrelated bill that is an attempt to not permit college student to vote in their college towns. "Senate Bill 667, also known as “Equalize Voter Rights,” would force voting students to travel home or vote absentee — or see their parents face higher taxes." http://www.dailytarheel.com/article... - $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian

Jack Tripper from 3's company - Todd Hoff

For me, the first gay character from TV or movies I specifically remember recognizing as being gay was Ricky Vasquez from My So Called Life. ETA - Shortly after that, I think Ellen came out (and, yes, I watched that show, too). The rest of the characters I remember from that time period weren't necessarily openly gay. - DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE

"NASA’s Great Observatories — the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Spitzer Infrared Telescope — have combined forces to create this new image of the Small Magellanic Cloud. The SMC is one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors. Even though it is a small, or so-called dwarf galaxy, the SMC is so bright that it is visible to the unaided eye from the Southern Hemisphere and near the equator." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

"The various colors represent wavelengths of light across a broad spectrum. X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory are shown in purple; visible-light from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is colored red, green and blue; and infrared observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope are also represented in red. " - Mark H

"Lensed by David Bellemere, model Chloe Nørgaard poses as a heavy metal vixen for Gravure Magazine. Fashion director Priscilla Polley dresses the native New Yorker in statement pieces by designer labels, while hair stylist Cecilia Romero creates enchanting blue and green waves. / Creative Direction by Alex Freund and Lisa Mosko, Makeup by Regina Harris" - Mark H from Bookmarklet

Soft focus and low contrast working well with the languid poses. - Mark H

"I did some using flash on camera, or flash on hand, but these images were not so exciting to me. I wanted to do something new. Then idea came up that I will use off flash on stand, using radio transmitter and receiver, just like studio photography. Then I happened to find interesting effects when I flash person from behind and use slow shutter speed as you can see on my images. The technique I am using is very simple and I like its simplicity. I am using wireless transmitter and receiver. All settings of camera and flash are adjusted by manually. Flash is on stand. The shutter speed will be set to 1/2-1/15th sec depend on what kind of effect I want." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

Bohemian Rhapsody just popped in my head. "I see a little silhouetto of a man" - Rodfather

"From a Soviet space capsule landing outside of Kankakee, Illinois to life discovered on Jupiter in 1996, it’s all enshrined for the curious. One of our faves is Google’s 2004 announcement that they were accepting applications at a new research center… based on the Moon in Copernicus crater. The ability to survive “with limited access to such modern conveniences as soy low-fat lattes,” was cited as a prerequisite, but a sushi chef and two massage therapists would be on site. At least the assignment wouldn’t be totally austere!" - Mark H from Bookmarklet

"You probably think of the Arctic as a cold, frozen tundra—home to lichen, polar bears and scattered herds of reindeer. In many places, this view would be accurate, but in a few relatively southern areas in Canada, Alaska and Russia, warming temperatures over the past few decades have allowed new types of plants, such as shrubs, to take root. And by 2050—if current warming trends continue—we’ll see a dramatically different ecosystem across the Arctic, starting with something that’s largely unknown in the area currently: trees. According to research published today in Nature ClimateChange, tree cover in the Arctic could increase by more than 50 percent over the next few decades." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

"In effect, the area’s warming climate and lengthening growing season will shift all current vegetation zones to more northerly and colder regions. Already, these vegetation zones have shifted an average of five degrees of latitude over the past 30 years–in other words, the vegetation in one spot resembles how a location five degrees south looked 30 years ago. But by 2050, this shift... more... - Mark H

Portraits augmented by cuttings from style magazines. - Mark H from Bookmarklet

"In an essay for her 1977 series “On Photography,” Susan Sontag wrote that “photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing, which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as an art.” Yet today, found or “vernacular” photographs are increasingly presented as art objects, a reverence reinforced by the steady transition from analog to digital technology. These visual time capsules attract us with their physical beauty and their captivating narratives." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

"Over four decades after they first tussled on a far-off planet, Shatner -- the original Captain Kirk -- finds himself locked in mortal combat with his old enemy: the reptilian creature called the Gorn. Picking up where their battle in the classic 1967 "Star Trek" episode "Arena" left off, Shatner and the Gorn trade the show's rocky desert setting for a comfortable living room and toss pillows instead of stones. But that doesn't make the combat any less intense." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

trivia: those funny looking eyes on the Gorn are supposedly protective tactical eyepieces and not its eyes. - Hieronymous Boob

tickle tickle - Meg V. Meg

Tis a wee little thing. - Eric - seven eleven from iPhone

That should really go inside a bigger bottle of rum. - Eric - seven eleven

"Space tethers hold intriguing potential for satellite manoeuvring, attitude control and even power generation. But about half of all orbital tether tests have either failed to deploy or snapped, probably due to micrometeoroid impacts. This scanning electron microscope image shows the new design of an ultra-thin and hopefully snap-proof solar sail tether soon to be tested on Estonia’s ESTCube-1, which is being launched into orbit along with ESA’s Proba-V satellite on the next Vega rocket in April." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

"Harnessing manufacturing techniques from the microelectronics industry, this aluminium tether measures just 50 micrometres across – across half the diameter of the average human hair – with a smaller 25 micrometre wire interweaved onto it. The University of Helsinki’s interweaving technique, with several wires joined together every centimetre, will hopefully keep the tether intact to run an electric charge down it, even if all but one subwires in the tether are cut. " - Mark H

"The specifics of how a single-celled organism called Tetrahymena thermophila gets it on has been a scientific mystery for more than 50 years. See, T. thermophila has seven sexes, and it can reproduce in 21 combinations. For sexy-time, each T. thermophila can mate with another T. thermophila that has any of the six other sexes. But with so many options, how do cells determine which sex their progeny will be?" - Mark H from Bookmarklet

"The progeny cell's sex is basically chosen at random. The organism has two different nuclei: a germline nucleus that serves as a reservoir for genetic information to be passed on to progeny, and a somatic nucleus that expresses genes. In each cell, the germline nucleus contains incomplete genetic information for each mating type. During fertilization, new germline and somatic nuclei... more... - Mark H

"Europeans do not operate under the constant specter of litigation, which haunts and distorts American life. Europeans don’t put signs near fireplaces warning that they get hot and you ought not stick your arms in them.  They’ll serve you wine and beer at a public festival in a proper glass, and you won’t need a wrist band.  Outdoor restaurants frequently feature playgrounds—yes, even those that serve alcohol on the premises—and they generally don’t have signs that warn that children play at their own risk. They assume you know that.  Schools have rules about not bringing toy weapons, but if your five-year-old hides a squirt gun in his backpack, you don’t need to worry.  No one is getting suspended.  You can also fix him a peanut butter sandwich or cookies with nuts.  If you daughter scrapes her knee, the school will put on a Band-Aid, even if you haven’t signed a release form." - Morton Fox from Bookmarklet

At work- a university- only first aiders can apply plasters. If I were to give out peanut butter sandwiches without warnings... Mark is right, we have our own pettifogging rules. - Pete #TeamMonique

"Artificial intelligence is arguably the most useless technology that humans have ever aspired to possess. Actually, let me clarify. It would be useful to have a robot that could make independent decisions while, say, exploring a distant planet, or defusing a bomb. But the ultimate aspiration of AI was never just to add autonomy to a robot’s operating system. The idea wasn’t to enable a computer to search data faster by ‘understanding patterns’, or communicate with its human masters via natural language. The dream of AI was — and is — to create a machine that is conscious. AI means building a mechanical human being. And this goal, as supposedly rational technological projects go, is deeply strange." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

"The heyday of AI research was the 1960s and ’70s. By the mid-1980s, it had lost its allure, as well as most of its funding. It entered its ‘dark years’, which is where it has remained ever since. The problem, in essence, was that building a conscious machine turned out to be vastly more complicated than the early researchers had expected. To begin with, we don’t really understand what... more... - Mark H

"AS blaring rock music fills the indoor sports arena, ten women dressed in tiny hotpants skate at breakneck speed around a track, their faces painted like warriors. But despite the neon clothing and eye-liner, this is no roller disco. These skaters are not dancing, they are engaged in serious competition — doing everything they can to smash each other out of the way. This is the frantic, lively and often violent world of roller derby." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

She was in it, so probably :) - Eivind

Not sure if any of you young whipper snappers remember this fantastic era of the beeb, but I miss this series, great times, interesting and sometimes great films! ~ shops worth popping into if you're nearby: The Cinema Store http://www.thecinemastore.co.uk/ small and interesting shop, staff are friendly and chatty, within walking distance from the Forbidden Planet! http://forbiddenplanet.com/ - Halil from Bookmarklet

*bump* - Halil

It was through Moviedrome that I discovered what's still one of my top three films of all time: The Andromeda Strain. I loved the way that Alex Cox was able to present the film as an action adventure complete with a chase scene, something that wouldn't have occurred to me. - Mark H

I answered that I supposed I was technically a postman and this was met with an upset response that everyone seemed to be a postman. - Mark H

well, that's something. - Bren

You have to bring home the bacon. - Eithne Herd

More amusing than if I'd picked a deity from a polytheistic mythology Sloppy? :-P - Eivind

"The Portsmouth & Southsea area once had over thirty cinemas operating at the same time. This set of 3 illustrations depict the three traditional Odeon picture houses that define the golden age era." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

"Odeon Portsmouth opened on 14th December 1936 with Sydney Howard in “Chick”. The final performances of “I Am Legend” starring Will Smith were held on 10th January 2008. The building is currently in use as a Sainsburys Local supermarket. Odeon Southsea was situated on the corner of Albert Road and Festing Road. In 1977, it changed it's name to the Salon Cinema, but this could not save... more... - Mark H

insert / prt sc (with prt sc enclosed in a rectangle) - John (bird whisperer)

"Insert" all by itself; mine is in the same row as my function keys (which are all about half the height & two-thirds the width of the standard keys on the keyboard) - DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE

F12 above Scr Lk - Mark H

insert [scroll] - Kelli H.

There is no print screen key on my keyboard. :) - Tinfoil 2.0

home [prt sc] - Kelli H.

"The Smithsonian magazine's 10th annual photo contest's 50 finalists have been chosen, but there's still time for you to vote for the Readers Choice winner! This year's competition has drawn over 37,600 entries from photographers in 112 countries around the world. Editors will choose a Grand Prize Winner and the winners in each of five categories which include The Natural World, Americana, People, Travel and Altered Images. Voting will be open through March 29, 2013." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

"While visiting New York this March, we happened across an interesting lodging opportunity: renting out a renovated camper in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Your hosts are a furniture maker — Mr. Kellam Clark — and the lovely Ms. Tillers. Ms. Tillers is your matronly savior, who ensures you have your key, enough bedding, and the password to the Internet. Upon arrival, she’ll give you a tour. You’ll soon notice that everyone refers to each other by a proper title and last name. But don’t be afraid, gentle traveler. Everything’s gonna be just fine." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

"There is a common area where you’ll find an interesting group of artists often hang out. Come nightfall, we found them to be much more active. They poured us a drink, sang us a song, read us a story, and told us how they’d come to find the place. One was a musician, another was studying linguistics, and yet another was a writer who was constantly bickering with the linguist over the... more... - Mark H

"Also in the common area is a bathroom and a shower, and this is the best part. You know how sometimes you’re lathering yourself up in the shower, just wishing someone could see how goddamn amazing you look? Glistening wet, totally nude, soap bubbles sliding over your damp flesh and rippling muscles? Why are you even arching your back to rinse and wring your tresses when there’s no one... more... - Mark H

Pilot, or fly in? - Pete #TeamMonique

well, with the Galactica it's all about the mystique, you know. - Guy

"Marco Ribbe is an Alternative Fashion, Steampunk & Fetish Photographer and Designer from Germany." - https://www.facebook.com/marcori... - Mark H

"The March 2013 issue of British Vogue features the story 'Orient Excess', photographed by Mario Testino and styled by Lucinda Chambers with hair by Sam McKnight and makeup by Linda Cantello. The editorial features models Fei Fei Sun, Sui He, Sung Hee Kim and Ji Hye Park." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

Shared partly for the lovely colouring and lighting but mostly for some of the gorgeous footwear. - Mark H