This t-shirt from Pegasus Publishing is hands-down the best “300″ nerdy parody I’ve seen yet.
January, 2008
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Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped created a mini-storm this week when he discovered a major security hole in the way photo-sharing site SmugMug.Com implements its privacy settings for photos people have uploaded to the site. Unfortunately, SmugMug’s reaction so far has been very…well…smug. People who post photos on SmugMug want to be able to share…
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At the aptly named CrazyPc.Com, this 12 Volt Cigarette plug to 4 Pin Molex cable can be yours for just $9.99.
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Board Game Geek has a nice list of Cthulhu/Lovecraft-inspired board games.
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In the February 2008 issue of Commentary, John Steele Gordon has a nice look at the increasing opposition within the Democratic Party to free trade. As Gordon notes in Look Who’s Afraid of Free Trade, this is a surprising turn of events since historically it has been the Democrats who supported free trade while Republicans…
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Diamond Select is scheduled to start shipping this BTVS 13″ x 10″ DuLac Cross prop replica at the end of January 2008. And at the low, low price of $175!
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Financially, the Seattle SuperSonics are not one of the NBA’s high performing teams. According to the SuperSonics, they’ve been losing on the order of $15 million a year for the last several years. So in 2006, the team was sold for to a group led by Oklahoma businessman Clay Bennett for $350 million. Like many…
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Once upon a time, the MPAA told a fairy tale that 44 percent of its domestic losses due to piracy were due to college students. It used that fairy tale to push policies and legislation targeting colleges and universities. But now — oops — due to “human error”, it turns out that at best the…
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David Willis seriously needs to get an RSS feed up for his webcomic, but otherwise ShortPacked.Com is an amusing look at some of the oddities of action figure collecting.
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The Associated Press reports that Canada has withdrawn from next year’s planned United Nations Conference on Racism planned for South Africa. Like the previous UN Conference on Racism in 2001, this one is slated to be yet another UN Conference on Israeli Bashing. As Salon noted in its coverage of the 2001 Conference, the Conference…