Another odd licensed product that showed up on clearance at the local supermarket recently. This is a Spider-Man lamp that is just Spidey’s head. The result looks like Spider-Man went up against The Guillotine and lost.
February, 2009
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Saw this and various other DC-branded hermit crab accessories on clearance at the local supermarket. There were also separately packaged Batman hermit crab shells. Oy.
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I’ve written before about the Broadway musical version of Spider-Man, and this awful awful project apparently continues full speed ahead — those so interested can now buy tickets for the 2010 debut of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. According to a Marvel press release, Drawing from over 40 years of Marvel comic books for inspiration,…
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Unearthed Outdoors offers a free download of its True Marble global dataset. The catch is that the free download is of the 250m set, which is relatively low resolution — though for many more casual uses this is still relatively high resolution. Especially since the 15m high resolution image goes for $25,000 for the whole…
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Yep, an Andy Kaufman WWE Classic Superstars action figure (originally included in a two-pack with a Jerry “The King” Lawler figure, but now available separately).
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If you want to understand just how complicated it is to determine whether or not a work is still copyrighted in the United States, check out Paul Herman’s analysis of the copyright status of works by Robert E. Howard who died in 1936 but had many works published posthumously (in some cases, several decades after…
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Yesterday, the developers of Gallery — the open source photo gallery software — released Alpha 2 of the fast progressing Gallery 3.
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Koplow Games sells these nice blank dice/counting cubes of all different shapes, sizes and colors.
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Jungle Disk started life as a way to backup local files to Amazon’s S3 — I use it to backup the 300gb or so of personal data on my local system and it works great. The company behind the software was recently acquired by Rackspace so in its next release, Jungle Disk will add support…
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There are a number of WordPress plugins that are designed to pull character data from the WoWArmory, but WoW Character Display is head-and-shoulders above the rest. The main advantage it has is that it caches the armory data, so after its pulled once it only gets refreshed every X minutes, with the administrator able to…