Some days I think that if Bandai doesn’t make it, you probably don’t need it. Like this. No idea if you can buy this in the U.S., but if you can you probably should.
January, 2009
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Dire Press has a nice random dungeon generator for all your dungeon crawl needs. Pretty slick.
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I really try to avoid buying apps for my iPod Touch, but the Diceonomicon dice roller is clearly something I cannot live without. Select the mix of dice you want to roll and then just give the iPod a shake to start rolling.
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Chessex sells these novelty Cheat Dice. They’re not actually loaded, but rather they are creatively labeled, Cheat Die set contains: 1 d20 numbered with two “20″s and no “1″ 1 d10 numbered with two “0″s and no “1″ 1 d6 numbered with two “6″s and no “1″ 1 d6 numbered with two “1″s and no…
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So I was checking out the clearance toy bin at the local Wal-Mart-style chain store and ran across what has to be not only the worst Dark Knight tie-in, but possibly the lamest Batman toy ever. I give you, the Dark Knight Interactive Bat, According to Mattel’s promotional material, Batman Dark Knight Interactive Bat makes…
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Offworld Designs sells this amazing Horton Hears Cthulhu! t-shirt.
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Innsmouth Escape is a board game from Twilight Creations where one side plays a human being trying to escape from Innsmouth and the other players take on the role of Deep Ones trying to kill him.
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Hmm . . . Super Mario Chess set.
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Jason Kottke decides to start a meme and Cory Doctorow can’t help but jump on the bandwagon about the WhiteHouse.gov robots.txt file which went from 2,400 lines to 2. Of course there must be some nefarious purpose there or lesson about the closed nature of the Bush administration vs. the new open Obama administration. Kottke…
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Apparently the creationists at the Discovery Institute are planning an Academic Freedom Day for Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, February 12, 2009. On their website, the organizers make much use of this quote from Darwin, A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each…