Over at Boing! Boing!Boin, Xeni Jardin links to an “interview” with Karl Rove by Deborah Solmon in the New York Times and says, Meant to blog this when it came out, but it’s one of the funniest/creepiest things I’ve ever read in the Times: a really odd Q&A with Karl Rove. By the time you…
November, 2008
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The United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has warned against using Melanotan purchased on the Internet. I’ve written about Melanotan before — it is a drug that tans the skin, increases the libido, and suppresses appetite. It has been in testing for the better part of a decade, but is still not approved…
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Michael Levine lays out the case for letting General Motors enter into bankruptcy rather than get started down the path of bailing out every ailing industry. Levine outlines some of the bizarre costs that GM and other automakers are saddled with including state laws that force automakers to support a ridiculous number of car dealers,…
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In the early 1990s, Playmates found itself in possession of both the Star Trek and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles licenses. Since the world demanded to see Star Trek Mutant Ninja Turtle figures, Playmates obliged. Hmm . . . maybe JJ Abrams will throw in a TMNT twist in his upcoming Star Trek film.
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In mid-December, DC Direct will release this Hot Toys-produced Bank Robber Joker 1:6 scale action figure. This thing’s got amazing detail, but you’ll have to cough up $175 for it.
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DC Direct has announced this 1:16 scale Golden Age Flash shipping in July 2009 for $99.99.
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Richard Garriott may be reaching for the stars, but Tabula Rasa has been grounded almost since the day it was released. So it comes as no surprise that NCSoft is finally shutting the game down, Last November we launched what we hoped would be a ground breaking sci-fi MMO. In many ways, we think we’ve…
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Someone sent me a link to a story on ZDNet about the best netbooks to buy this holiday season, and all I wanted to do was post a short comment about the MSI Wind. So I enter my comment and hit the submit button, at which point I get a page from ZDNet telling me…
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Okay, everyone’s heard of TinyURL, but what about HugeURL — the service that will take any URL and then make it arbitrarily larger. For example, rather than linking to http://brian.carnell.com/, you could link to, http://www.hugeurl.com/?NGZmOTAxNmRlMTVkYmI0ZmUxNjJjNWNhMmE0 OGJlYmEmMTImVm0wd2QyUXlVWGxXYTJoV1YwZG9WVll3Wkc5alJsWjBUVlpP V0Zac2JETlhhMUpUVmpGYWMySkVUbGhoTWsweFZqQmFTMk15U2tWVWJHaG9U VmhDVVZadGVGWmxSbGw1Vkd0c2FsSnRhRzlVVjNOM1pVWmFkR05GZEZSTlZU VkpWbTEwYTFkSFNrZGpTRUpYVFVad1NGUlVSbUZqVmtaMFVteFNUbUY2UlRG V1ZFb3dWakZhV0ZOcmJGSmlSMmhZV1d4b2IwMHhXbGRYYlVaclVsUkdXbGt3 WkRSVk1rcElaSHBHVjJFeVVYZFpWRVpyVTBaT2NscEhjRlJTVlhCWlZrWldh MVV5VW5OalJtUllZbFZhY1ZscldtRmxWbVJ5VjI1a1YwMUVSa1pWYkZKRFZq QXhkVlZ1V2xaaGExcFlXa1ZhVDJOdFNrZFRiV3hYVWpOb1dGWnRNSGRsUjBs NFUydGthVk5GV2xSWmJHaFRWMVpXY1ZKcmRGUldiRm93V2xWb2ExWXdNVVZT YTFwWFlrZG9jbFpxU2tabFZsWlpXa1prYUdFeGNGbFhhMVpoVkRKT2MyTkZh R3BTYXpWWVZXcE9iMkl4V25STldHUlZUV3RzTlZWdGRHdFdiVXB6VTI1T1Zt RnJOVlJXTUZwVFZqRmtkVnBGTlZOaVJtOTNWMnhXYWs1WFJrZFhiazVxVTBk NFdGUldXa3RTUmxweFVWaG9hMVpzV2pGV01uaGhZVWRGZUdOR2FGaGlSbkJv VmtSS1QyTXlUa1phUjJoVFRXNW9WVmRXVWs5Uk1sSnpWMjVTVGxkSFVsWlVW bHBYVGxaV2RHUkhkRmhTTUhCSlZsZDRjMWR0U2toaFJsSlhUVVp3VkZacVJt dGtWbkJHVGxaT2FXRXdjRWxXYlhCTFRrZEZlRmRzYUZSaVJuQnhWV3hrVTFs V1VsWlhiVVpyWWtad2VGVnRkSGRpUjBwV1YydHNXbFpXY0ROWlZXUkdaV3hH Y2sxV1pGZE5NRXBKVm10U1IyRXhaRWRVYmtwb1VqTm9WRmxZY0Zka01WcFla VWM1VWsxWFVraFdNalZUVkd4YVJsTnNhRlZXTTJoSVZHdGFZV015UmtoUFYy aHBVbGhDTmxkVVFtRmpNV1IwVWxoc2FGSldTbUZhVjNSaFYwWndSbHBHWkZS…