Previously available only to retailers who ordered at least 12 cases of HorrorClix, WizKids has released its awesome 16″ Cthulhu HorrorClix figure for general sale — though it will set you back $70-$90 depending on where you buy,
March 12, 2007
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Twitter Fan Wiki is a wiki devoted to the web app of the moment.
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Marvel has its Spider-Man and Friends line of toys for toddlers, and Mattel is soon going to be bringing out a DC Superfriends line aimed at the same market. There are definitely adults who collect these, but I find most of them annoying (my dog, however, loves the ones my son leaves on the floor).…
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BookTwo is using a Twitter feed to read James Joyce’s Ulysses one line every 15 minutes. The BookTwo site includes a downloadable PHP script that will do the same thing to any text. Micro-serialized novels anyone?
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ZDNet summarize a Tabblo survey which foundthat 11 percent of U.S. respondents said they had more than 10,000 digital photos. Breaking down all the groups, the survey estimates that Americans have about 500 billion digital photographs stored on their hard drives and memory cards. That is an enormous estimate which highlights just how much digital…
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Not Another E-Book LLC is an effort by contributors to the Baen forums to build an open (i.e., no stupid DRM) e-book reader. Essentially the idea is to put together a spec for the reader, then get enough people to sign on to buy one to contract with an manufacturer to produce the device. The…
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Hilarious but true press release from the Dungeons & Dragon Online developers announcing new “Premium Services.” For the low, low, low price of just $19.95, you can now rename your character or guild in DDO. ZOMG.
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Back in January, Pope Benedict XVI condemned violent/sexualized videogames saying, Any trend to produce programs and products — including animated films and video games — which in the name of entertainment exalt violence and portray antisocial behavior or the trivialization of human sexuality is a perversion, all the more repulsive when these programs are directed…
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AskTheCSSGuy.Com has a nice tutorial demonstrating how to use CSS to automatically add hyperlink cues — i.e., a little PDF icon next to links that are PDFs or an Excel icon next to links to Excel spreadsheets, etc.
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SoupToys is a widget like toy that sits on your desktop and lets you mix and match all sorts of different “toy” building blocks that can be used to construct some amusing toy constructions. Its completely free, but Windows-only.