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…
August 29, 2008
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Privateer Press has uploaded a copy of the Monsterpocalypse Rulebook (17.4 mb PDF). Looks like this game is going to rock.