Saturday, May 31, 2025

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Friday, May 30, 2025

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Urban camouflage paintjob on this GQuuuuuuX Zaku II model






You can buy stickers specifically for this purpose:





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Honestly, some of my favorite TV moments are when live-to-tape TV shows have to meet the constraints of the format During the 2007-08 writer's strike, Conan O'Brien forced his guests to navigate a maze before their interview, because they couldn't write jokes and they needed something else to do

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— Phil Salvador (@philsalv.bsky.social) May 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM


Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Mountaineers violated "climbing ethics" by dosing themselves with xenon gas to make it easier to climb Mt. Everest

Long article (that questions whether the gas even does anything meaningful):

The British group, which included four former special forces members, took a different approach.

About 10 weeks before the expedition, the men began sleeping in hypoxic tents, which lower oxygen levels in the air and gradually acclimatized the hikers to conditions on Mount Everest, [the organizer] said.

While hypoxic tents have been used by some climbers for years, the big innovation for the British expedition came two weeks before the excursion, when the men flew to Limburg, Germany, outside Frankfurt, where a doctor ... had been experimenting with inhaled gases in his clinic.

The men wore masks hooked up to ventilators as an anesthesiologist slowly introduced higher levels of xenon into their systems.

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Disturbing print ad for a housekeeping service

New cleaning service in the neighborhood sent me a flyer. Might give them a shot

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— jam (@socialistboat.dad) February 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM

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Dallis Goodnight is the most Bond girl named player I've seen so far

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) May 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM


Bubble protest in New Orleans after man complains about potential damage to his Porsche

NOLA:

Earlier this week, [a man] went on WGNO and threatened to sue [a French Quarter bar], arguing a stray bubble from the bar’s delightful bubble machine could get in his porch cocktail.

[He's] also worried about his Porsche SUV that he parks across from the bar on St. Phillip



@olsenventures Bubble protest! #frenchquarter #nola #neworleans #bubbles ♬ original sound - Chris Olsen

Sunday, May 25, 2025

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"Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World" is $1.99 right now

at Amazon. (It's been on my wishlist)

From the NYT review:
Demeaned as “Hump drivers,” ostensible noncombatants at the bottom of the aviation hierarchy, they flew an inadequately charted route over baffling terrain, its surreality intensified by their frequent refusal to wear oxygen masks.

Saturday, May 24, 2025

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Every now and again I reflect on our Charlotte's Web GBA game we produced at Backbone. It was an action platform game that had Wilbur leaping around on platforms. We referred to it internally as "Pig of Persia," in honor of Prince of Persia, the game we absurdly based it on.

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— Mike Mika (@mikejmika.bsky.social) May 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM


Folio Society made a deluxe illustrated edition of The Culture novel Use of Weapons

Lots of illustrations posted here. The cover should have been the simple chair that inexplicably sets him off. 

The Wikipedia entry for the book says, "According to Banks, he wrote a much longer version of the book in 1974, long before any of his books (science fiction or otherwise) were published. The book had an even more complicated structure ('It was impossible to comprehend without thinking in six dimensions')"

(My favorite Culture novel is Matter, but this one is good too)

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www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/...

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— Imran Khan (@imrankhan.bsky.social) May 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
(More funny details in the article ("So in the midst of development, we went up to Tezuka-san and asked him to confirm, 'Is Mario actually eating those mushrooms?'")) (Has the cow illustrator been named anywhere?)

Good Haliburton illustration

Some true nightmare fuel from Grant Thomas on the Y! Sports design team to run with my ECF Game 1 story: yhoo.it/3ZoRPld

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— Dan Devine (@yourmandevine.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM





Breaking down the last play:










Thursday, May 22, 2025

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes is $1.99 right now

at Amazon (been on my wishlist forever). ("In the course of researching the book, I got to know an array of astonishing characters. They include a marine biologist named Steve O’Shea who was trying to be the first person to ever to capture a giant squid and grow it in captivity; sandhogs digging an intricate maze of tunnels hundreds of feet beneath the streets of New York City; a Polish detective investigating whether an author planted clues to an actual murder in his postmodern novel...")

There's a free Warhammer 40K typing game called Boltgun - Words of Vengeance

Steam link. (I hope there's a view that shows the marine wearing a keyboard strapped to his body.)

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This photo I took of a McDonald's under construction has the aesthetic they should always have.

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— Darren M. A. Calvert (@dmacalvert.bsky.social) May 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM


15% off all in stock items at Entertainment Earth

Landing page. For example Damaged Mazinger Z (Soul of Chogokin figure); Potbellied Ultradad (S.H.Figuarts); Lego Tie Bomber (with Gonk Droid)

Very cool custom linked Megatron and Laserbeak figure based on Daniel Warren Johnson's recent run

A customized version of the Blokees model. I just finished assembling one myself. Fun figure with lots of articulation, a bunch of accessories, and easy to assemble. BBTS has it in stock, and EE for preorder.




Check out how young these familiar actresses look in Albert Pyun's "Down Twisted"

The diner workers at the end of their shift starting at 8:40:

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Monday, May 19, 2025

The novel "The Mountain in the Sea" is $1.49 right now

at Amazon. (Won/nominated for lots of big awards, and I enjoyed the author's novella The Tusks of Extinction)

Also, John Scalzi's novel Zoe's Tale is $1.49 right now. I've enjoyed several other books in the series.

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Sunday, May 18, 2025

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Good concept for Apple's AI assistant



Hellfire Gala Magik custom action figure

Saturday, May 17, 2025