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DC Direct’s Bank Robber Joker 1:6 Scale Figure
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.
1/16 Scale Golden Age Flash from DC Direct
DC Direct has announced this 1:16 scale Golden Age Flash shipping in July 2009 for $99.99.
Tabula Rasa to Shut Down Feb 2009
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 achieved [...]
WTF - ZDNet Registration
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 [...]
Growing Up Skipper Doll
Oh my.
HugeURL
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,
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That is awesome. (Found this at Nethackz.com)
The Circle Is Now Complete — Antinous Is the Master
Antinous, one of the moderators of the comment threads over at Boing! Boing! has finally surpassed Teresa Nielsen Hayden in his moderation skills. I am in awe after running across an exchange between Antinous and a user going by the handle “Harveyboing.”
Good old Harvey made the mistake of posting a comment critical of a CNN [...]
Stands for Justice League Unlimited/DC Universe Classics Figures
Mattel’s collector-oriented webstore, MattyCollector.com, is currently selling action figure stands for Justice League Unlimited and DC Universe Classics figures. Those JLU figures are especially a pain in the ass to display, so this is a nice addition. Both are available in 25-packs for $12 plus shipping.
Ozzy Osbourne Ad for World of Warcraft
Best one yet.
Boston College Drops Student E-mail Accounts
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Boston College has decided to stop offering students e-mail accounts beginning next year. Instead they have set up an e-mail forwarding system, so each student is assigned a Boston College alias that then forwards to whatever personal e-mail system the students are using.
Some of the comments reflect what [...]
