You give ToyBuilders.Com a front and side photo of your head, they convert into a solid model and then output it to a special machine and boom — you’ve got an action figure of yourself. I’ve gotta get one of these ASAP.
September, 2000
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Tanya Metaksa has a hilarious look at the aftermath of the Million Mom March at FrontPageMag.Com. Several marchers, after going on about the horrors of violence, were themselves involved in violence, including gun violence. The march also had its share of victims; people who had suffered as a result of the criminal use of firearms…
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Apparently so bad that it’s driving viewers to the SciFi channel. According to SciFi.Com, The SCI FI Channel reported a 25 percent increase in household ratings in competition against the Olympic Games on NBC. SCI FI said it also captured the highest concentration of adults aged 25-54 of any network, broadcast or cable during the…
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One of the things that happens if you are a reporter is that you get detached from the stories you write about, because you have to on an emotional level. I can, for example, write about how outrageous American foreign policy is in Colombia, but at the end of the day you won’t find me…
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An arbitrator yesterday ruled against Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan, meaning she won’t get her gold medal back after it was stripped by Olympics officials when Raducan failed a drug tests. This whole affair represents the mean-spiritedness and tyrannical bureaucracy of the Olympics committee at its worst. Raducan tested positive for pseudoephedrine, a common ingredient in…
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At his Dreamzone weblog, Mark Morgan points to a very good article by Julie Hayden on the role of independent web sites, Indie Exposure: It’s All About You. The first part of the article describes perfectly what I’ve been trying to say about the web, The fact is, with very few exceptions, e-business never packs…
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A demo of the upcoming Starfleet Command II game is avaiable at Gamespot. The original Starfleet Command is the only Star Trek game I’ve ever seen that was any good. On the other hand the game is extraordinarily complex. I messed around with it for a couple weeks and it was a lot of fun,…
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The other day I was ranting and raving about how online publishers need to a) provide more services to consumers than traditional print, while b) lowering the cost, and it occurred to me yesterday that I’ve been shelling out my hard earned money for the past year for exactly just such a site — Steve…
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The folks at CoolTool pointed to a couple of excellent resources for Star Trek origami and Star Wars origami. The Pooh origami is also pretty nice looking.
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The fun folks at Slashdot are enjoying ripping apart a new study of the effects of a Microsoft breakup. The study is published by a group that Microsoft contributes money to and reaches the conclusion that with a Microsoft breakup, the price of Windows would rise as high as $1,000 per license assuming the average…