Patrick

There's a new Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince trailer: http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/harry-potter-and-half-blood-prince/feature-trailer ! Definitely looking forward to it. Via Digg.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_google_logos?mbid=su13 This is a pretty cool look at the development of the present day Google logo with the iterations that the designer of it went through. Via Digg.

http://www.oliverbishopyoung.co.uk/conversions.html I thought this was a pretty cool, unique series of photos. Via Digg.

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/10/20/dr-strange-movie-likely-among-next-crop-of-marvel-films-says-studio-president-kevin-feige/ Thoughts? Via IGN via Digg.

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/10/dr-pepper-to-ma.html November 23. Mark the day! Via Digg.

http://sports.espn.go.com/extra/mma/news/story?id=3660628 Thoughts?

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/22/sports/MMA-EliteXC-Folds.php

http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/red-102208-fakecop,0,5191751.story Via Digg.

http://weburbanist.com/2007/12/20/7-of-the-smallest-hotels-and-hotel-rooms-in-the-world-from-pipe-rooms-to-capsule-hotels/ Pretty interesting pictures and video. Via Digg.

Hello, Welcome to the seventh annual KarateForums.com Awards. Through these awards, we recognize just a few of the individuals who have made outstanding contributions to KarateForums.com in the past year. These awards take into consideration all community activity between October 19, 2007 and October 18, 2008. Members must be nominated based upon their activity in this period and articles nominated for Article of the Year must have been published in this span. To nominate, you must have a KarateForums.com account registered on or before October 18, 2008 with at least one post made before this thread's time stamp. There are just three guidelines to keep in mind when nominating: 1. Only one member or article can be nominated for EACH award. In other words, you cannot nominate the entire staff for Staff Member of the Year. You have to pick one person. One person can be nominated for more than one award, however. 2. You cannot nominate yourself or an article that you wrote for any of the awards. 3. Do not attempt to artificially inflate our nomination totals in any way. This includes but is not limited to trading nominations, encouraging people to nominate indiscriminately (publicly or privately), mass mailing/posting and any other behavior that could lead to results being artificially skewed. Individuals found to be participating in these activities will be disqualified from nomination in any category. Please note that you do not have to nominate for every category. You can nominate for as many or as few as you would like - please go for as many as you feel comfortable with. The more valid nominations that we get, the better! From the most popular nominations, the ballot for each award will be chosen and by using the poll system available on these forums, you will be able to vote for the winners! Here are this year's categories: 1. Member of the Year This award is intended to acknowledge the non staff member who you feel best exemplifies the qualities that KarateForums.com puts a premium on. Knowledge is valuable, but most valuable is a kind and helpful nature. You don't need to be a martial arts expert to be nominated for this award - you need to be someone who is kind and who shares what they know in a productive fashion that helps others. Current staff members (Sempais, Senseis and Patrick) cannot be nominated for this award. 2. New Member of the Year Basically, this award is the same as the Member of the Year award, except that this one is strictly for members that registered on or between the dates of October 19, 2007 and July 18, 2008. Current staff members (Sempais, Senseis and Patrick) cannot be nominated for this award. 3. Community Spirit Award This award should go to a person whom you feel has a passion for this community. A person who is all about the home team - in this case, KarateForums.com. Regular members and staff members (except Patrick) can be nominated for this award. 4. Staff Member of the Year Basically, this award is the same as the Member of the Year award, except that this award is for current staff members only (except Patrick). Regular members cannot be nominated. If you are unsure of who is on staff, please visit http://www.karateforums.com/staff.php for a complete listing. 5. Funniest Member of the Year Humor is an important aspect of the forums and this award recognizes the member who has brought a smile to your face many times. This person should have a good, clean sense of humor. Regular members and staff members (except Patrick) can be nominated for this award. 6. Article of the Year This award distinguishes your favorite article that was published in the KarateForums.com Articles section on or between October 19, 2007 and October 18, 2008. You can check when it was published by looking at the time stamp on the post that contains the article. Whether the article enlightened or inspired you, this is the place to recognize it. Visit our articles section at http://www.karateforums.com/karateforums-com-articles-vf44.html for a complete list of articles. So, that's all there is to it. Please nominate. You will find a blank ballot at the bottom of this message that you can copy and paste. We need as many valid nominations as possible! You nominate by sending a PM at http://www.karateforums.com/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=2715 - nominations will be closed on October 31, 2008. Please do not post your nominations on this, or any thread. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to PM me or reply to this thread. Thank you for reading and for visiting KarateForums.com. Here is the ballot that you can use:

Welcome to KarateForums.com. Glad to have you.

Yeah, same here. I loved the end of the last episode.

Welcome aboard.

Here's a direct link to the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/sports/football/17offense.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss It's pretty interesting. I don't know how I feel about it.

http://movies.ign.com/articles/919/919596p1.html Thoughts? Via Digg.

http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2008/10/13/top-5-biggest-tear-jerkers/ Nice read. I definitely remember that Saria moment. Via Digg.

Do we have any Prison Break fans here? What do you think of the new season so far?

Yeah, that's some awesome stuff.

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/10/10/new-spider-man-web-of-shadows-trailer-hits-the-web/ Wow, that game looks incredible. Via Digg.

http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2008/10/13/melted-signs-street-art-by-finalfrontier/ Pretty cool art. Via Digg.

Yeah, the perspective on 8 is excellent. And the colors.

Hello, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. I'm happy to announce the launch of KarateForums.com TV, a new video portion of the site containing videos featuring martial arts related news, interviews and more. It's featured at the top of our index page and will be regularly updated with new videos, as they are available. Currently, it features martial arts exhibitions, an interview with Ken Shamrock, a news feature on Chuck Norris, and more. It's not 100% perfect and some off topic videos slip in here and there, but overall, I think it's a nice addition. It's an experiment, as well. So, we'll see how it works. I realize, however, that it is somewhat large and that you may not want to always have to look at it or load it. For this reason, I have added the ability to hide it by clicking the "Hide KarateForums.com TV" link directly below the video area. If you have cookies enabled (which you have to have to stay logged in, on the forums), it will remember whether or not you last had it open or closed. So, if you click hide, it should stay hidden and won't load when you visit next. Then, when you want to check it out and see what new videos there are, you can always open it at your convenience. Thank you for reading and for visiting KarateForums.com. Sincerely, Patrick

Congrats.

Halloween is coming up. Are you dressing up? If so, as what?

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