Monty Python Fluxx

Looney Labs is releasing a Monty Python-themed version of their Fluxx card game in September. Since the rules and objectives of Fluxx are constantly changing within the game, that should be a pretty good fit with Monty Python.

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Mounted Cthulhu Head Plushy

This would look so good on the wall in my home office.

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Do You Worship Cthulhu?

Do You Worship Cthulhu? is a board game released by Toy Vault designed for 5-30 people.  According to Toy Vault’s description of the game,

This fun party game for a group of 5-30 people to play, and the rules can be learned in less than 3 minutes. One person acts as moderator, overseeing a village of people, one (or more) of which are secretly Cthulhu worshippers! The worshippers begin sacrificing other villagers one by one. Deceive your friends and lie through your teeth while experiencing a truly unique game.

Basically Werewolf with a Cthulhu skin.

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Why I Won’t Vote in November

I was trying to explain to someone the other day why I don’t vote. But this picture pretty much sums up the uselessness of doing so.

Rick Warren believes that the Bible is inerrant; that evolution is wrong (Genesis is all you need); that homosexuality is a sin and gay marriage is “non-negotiable” for Christians; that abortion, stem cell research and cloning should all be crimes. He also spends a lot of time and money on projects in the Third World that look nice on paper, but otherwise don’t accomplish anything.

He’s a fundie Bono.

And both national parties decided to elevate this walking ignoramus to a national an arbiter of opinion in the election for the leader of the free world. Oy.

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i-Blue 747 GPS Logger

As mentioned elsewhere, I have this little obsession with capturing data about my activities as I move through the day. Cheap, large scale storage makes it easier and easier to capture and archive such data, so why not?

Several months ago I added the i-Blue 747 GPS Logger to my collection of gadgets. It pretty much does what the title suggests — it records its GPS position to internal flash memory. Periodically, then, I download the GPS data file as a CSV file. That’s about it. Apparently it has Bluetooth so you could sync it wirelessly to your laptop or smartphone if you wanted to do real time mapping/directions, but I’ve never tried that feature (and don’t plan to).

The main advantages of the i-Blue 747 are that a) its cheap - $65 on Amazon at the moment; b) it acquires GPS signals fairly accurately, even in less-than-ideal conditions; c) it is extremely small; and d) it lasts all day on a full battery charge.

I’ve had nothing but positive experiences with it over the past few months. I definitely got my $65 worth on this particular gadget.

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Custom Con 20

Back in July, I totally forgot to mention Custom Con 20 over at TheFwoosh.Com. Probably the only place you’re ever going to see a Matter Eater Lad figure doing what MEL does best.

Forget The Avengers and Wonder Woman . . . when are we going to get a Matter Eater Lad movie?

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Whitewash - A Nice, Simple WordPress Theme

One of the things about WordPress is that most people don’t seem to think their install is complete until they have a theme with 50 columns, giant buttons, and ads everywhere. I had to laugh a few weeks ago when The Blog Herald ran a series of articles about reducing template clutter — seriously, go visit their site for what passes as on the simple side in the WordPress community (thank goodness for Google Reader).

On the other hand, this is my idea of a simple, no nonsense template that doesn’t make the visitor’s eyes bleed (demo this template here).

C’mon guys — sometimes less really is more.

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Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Pirates/Ninjas T-Shirts

Forget Republican vs. Democrat. These t-shirts will let you register your vote in the only debate that matters — Pirates vs. Ninjas:


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Donations for a Singularity Documentary?

The Singularity Institute is soliciting donations to help fund a documentary by Doug Wolens about . . . well . . . The Singularity.

Why not just wait for our new AI overlords to self-assemble their own damn documentary?

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Firefox New Install - Extensions

This is just a list of addons I need to remember to add to any new Firefox installs on machines I use:

AdBlock Plus - blocks ads

AutoCopy - automatically copies highlighted text in browser to the clipboard

BugMeNot - bypasses registration systems for viewing content

CookieSafe - take control of cookies

DownThemAll - download manager

Fireshot - takes screenshots of web pages

Google Gears - speed up some sites and work offline

GooglePedia - adds Wikipedia results to Google search

Greasemonkey - allows insane level of customization

NoScript - blocks scripts

Picnik - edit images in Picnik

Searchbar Autosizer - autosizes searchbar as you type

Session Manager - save and restore tabs after Firefox crashes

Tab Counter - displays number of open tabs in upper right corner

Tab Mix Plus - best tab options manager, period.

Text Area Backup - this is a GreaseMonkey script that backs up the text in any text area once per second so it is recoverable in the event of a browser crash

Text Area Resizer and Mover - lets the user resize and move text area boxes

TimeTracker - tracks how much time you spend webbrowsing

Webmynd - saves local file of every web page you visit

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