Archive for August, 2008
Gappa / Monster from a Prehistoric Planet
Wow … Gappa (retitled as Monster from a Prehistoric Planet) is in the public domain and available at Archive.Org. One of the funniest movie watching experiences I’ve ever had was watching this with my wife. The movie is hilarious — both intentionally and unintentionally. Gappa is what might have happened if the Monty Python folks [...]
Stephenie Meyer’s Purloined Novel
In what frankly comes across as a publicity stunt, Stephenie Meyer has been complaining on her blog that somebody ended up with a draft copy of one of her forthcoming novels and posted it to the Internets. Oh noes. Right up there with those bands that issue press releases denouncing the leaking of one of [...]
Zabazoo’s Stonees
Zabazoo manufactures a building toy called Stonees — colorful rocks made from crushed stone. The rocks have flat surfaces so they can be easily stacked. A tub of 50 goes for about $20.
And they’re great for any sort of diorama scene (involving, say, action figures) that also requires rocks.
Zocchihedrons
Was weeding out my collection of magazines the other day, and ran across an ad in an early 1980s issue of Dragon for the Zoccihedron — a 100-side die that’s really just a ball that randomly (or not) displays a number between 1 and 100. And, of course they’re still making the things.
This is a [...]
Determinism, Free Will and Quantum Spin
Science News has a fascinating — if brain splitting — look at research by Princeton mathematicians John Conway and Simon Kochen who are trying to defend free will in what looks like a completely deterministic universe,
Conway and Kochen say this search [for variables that would determine the outcome of quantum-level events] is hopeless, and they [...]
Monsterpocalypse Rulebook
Privateer Press has uploaded a copy of the Monsterpocalypse Rulebook (17.4 mb PDF). Looks like this game is going to rock.
Running Across Azeroth on a Treadmill
Hilariously weird video of two World of Warcraft players who hook treadmills up to the game and then literally run their toons in a race from Shadowglenn to Darnassus.
George Pitcher In Defense of Compulsory Religious Education
In general, I tend to think of Great Britain and Europe as significantly more secular than the United States, which is why I always get a bit weirded out reading op-eds like George Pitcher’s defense of compulsory religious education in the United Kingdom.
The thing is that compulsory education is already the norm — although from [...]
Teenormous.Com
Teenormous.Com is a search engine focused on helping users find cool t-shirts. Seriously awesome.
It’s Not Easy Being Green . . . and Crucified
The Catholic Church is apparently a bit unhappy over this sculpture currently being displayed in an Italian museum that depicts a green frog being crucified while it holds a beer mug in one hand and an egg in the other.
The sculpture, Zuerst die Fuess is by the late German sculptor Martin Kippenberger. The Vatican wrote [...]
