Print Monopoly money to your heart’s content thanks to PDF’s of Monopoly money at Hasbro’s site.
December, 2003
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A lot of people seem to be discussing this post speculating about how much storage space would be required to store every word spoken by every human being who has ever lived. Apparently the standard answer repeated in a number of publications is that it can be done with a mere 5 exabytes. Mark Liberman…
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PC Magazine’s Bill Howard has a short article about digital archiving of personal records, photographs, etc. The past few months I’ve been working on a personal project to digitize and get rid of as much physical material as I can. It occurred to me back in August that today I spend about 60 to 70…
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Last year on Jim Roepcke’s site, I outlined my desire for some sort of online subscription service by Marvel or DC that would offer access to comic book back issues and/or on DVD. It turns out someone at Marvel had the same idea and the result is the excellent Marvel Comic Book Library Vol. 1…
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Bobble Beasts are bobble-head monster toys. Excellent! I especially love this Merv Pumpkinhead lookalike Bobble Beast.
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This is something I have never understood about developers who write Windows programs and maybe someone out there has an answer — WTF are some software companies thinking when they create a program group in my Start menu that uses the company name rather than the product name. For example, I am using CuteFTP Pro…
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These are pictures I took on Saturday, December 14, of the bi-weekly anti-war protest held in downtown Kalamazoo. Here’s a long crowd shot — about 30-35 people showed up. The guy on the left has a sign reading “522 dead for Halliburton.” Not sure where he’s getting his figures, but total U.S. dead was lower…
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The Chauvet cave paintings are, of course, famous as being the oldest cave paintings in the world — French archaeologists date them at 33,000 B.C.E. But are they really that old? According to this Telegraph article there’s actually some controversy over that. A couple British archaeologists argues that the French claim is off by about…
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Henry Hanks points out that there’s a major problem with Howard Dean’s attempt in last night’s debate to essentially blame Fox News for his speculations about whether or not the president had been tipped off about 9/11 but let it happen anyway, SPRADLING: Congressman, thank you. Governor Dean, you had once stated that you thought…
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Mark Millar had an interesting column at ComicBookResources.Com a couple months ago about a fascinating might-have-been-movie — an Orson Welles-produced Batman film. According to Millar, Welles began working in earnest with DC’s predecessor on a possible Batman film in 1946. Millar writes, Gathering many of his old friends and colleagues together from “Citizen Kane,” he…