Another item I could have gotten if I had went to SDCC . . . aargh. Funko apparently only made a few hundred of these, so E-Bay’s your best option now (which is where I got this image from someone selling it for a $30 Buy It Now price).
July, 2008
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One of the worst cliches is the claim, frequently though almost certainly incorrectly attributed to Albert Einstein, that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” This is, of course, false and trivially false at that. Whenever I hear people say something along those lines, I wonder what they…
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OMG, this Tardis MAME console is the awes0me.
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There’s a market for this? Seriously? Just in case you happen to be in the target market, this is a mere $69.95 over at Collectibles Today.
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WordPress has a nice ability to set the post date on a blog entry to whatever the hell you want it to be. The only problem is, the default is that the timestamp field is hidden and the user has to click on a link to expand it. Which is a real pain in the…
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TechCrunch writes about the increasingly small window companies have to make an impression with new product launches, citing the lousy launch of Google-wannabe Cuil. The thing that boggles my mind about Cuil is still the three-column search results page. WTF? That just makes my eyes bleed and has me running back to Google to lay…
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The Toy Zone has 20 album covers recreated with Legos,
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I’ve been looking for a way to customize the text shown on Tag pages. For some Tag pages, I’d like to include additional information related to the topic. For example, on the World of Warcraft tag page I might want to include information about my toons and links to the WoW Armory. The official WordPress…
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Marco Kaye has a hilarious imaginary letter over at McSweeney’s, Mom, Dad, I’m Into Steampunk: If you want to label me retrofuturistic so I can fit into your compartmentalized worldview, that’s fine. But look past my airplane goggles. This is my lifestyle. While many of my kind doubt there’ll be a complete societal collapse in…
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IToyNews.Com has some nice shots of this 1/6th scale Sgt. Rock that DC Direct is showing off at SDCC. I’ve just recently started grabbing all of the 1/6th scale DC figures, though the increase in oil prices is starting to send the cost of these figures to the $125 range.