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Tikun Olam discusses the Gaucho Jeep replica, a toy whose Amazon review includes the phrase: " After the first rollover we started to make them wear helmets on it all the time. "

Office 2003 Editions: Compare Them to Previous Versions: "New Color Palette
We've added 3 colors to the regular palette to offer you more options when changing your font's appearance.
Note: This feature requires Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Encarta, Microsoft Ages of Empires, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and Microsoft Bob. "

Electrolicious is back in town!

:: Xinhuanet - English ::: "'We are in a war of ideas, as well as a global war on terror,' Rumsfeld said in an interview with The Washington Times published Friday. 'And the ideas are important ... they need to be communicated in ways that are persuasive to the listeners.' "

It's always a war to this man. I wonder, when he's sitting in his office, and he gets a little peckish, does he declare war on the munchies?

The Hobbit Name Generator
The Elf Name Generator

Links thanks to the wandering Kavu.

All About Romance: Cover Contest 2002 Introduction

Link thanks to Philos.

Mysteries of Wow :: Astrobiology Magazine :: Search for Life in the Universe: "Of the many 'maybe's' that SETI has turned up in its four-decade history, none is better known than the one that was discovered in August, 1977, in Columbus, Ohio. The famous Wow signal was found as part of a long-running sky survey conducted with Ohio State University's 'Big Ear' radio telescope."

Check out my buddy Sacco's band: LiBrArY sCiEnCe

Warcry News Network: "About RTS games, many of these games require fast building order. Being a fast player is still the best advantage you can have in these games, but isn't that more of a skill than strategy? How will Empires - DMW strategy be compared to your previous games?"

Wired News: Did E-Vote Firm Patch Election?: "Behler said 25 to 30 percent of the machines in one shipment to the warehouse either crashed upon booting or had problems with their real-time clocks, causing the systems to register the date inaccurately then boot improperly or freeze up altogether. [...] According to Harris, this scenario is particularly worrisome in light of what happened in the Georgia gubernatorial race, which ended in a major upset that defied all polls and put a Republican in the governor's seat for the first time in more than 130 years."

Castles and Keeps

Some very cool (and inexpensive) pdf paper terrain for RPGs and wargames.

The Evil DM's Blog Site

Salon.com Comics | Tom the Dancing Bug

Salon.com News | Chinese astronaut receives hero's welcome: "I saw our planet. It's so beautiful,' Lt. Col Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut, marveled to his family after making it safely home, gently touching down his Shenzhou 5 spacecraft on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia as a crisp dawn broke. The time of landing: 6:23 a.m. "

Yahoo! News - Photo of Fiery Object Mystifies Scientists: "A digital picture of a spectacular and apparently explosive event in the sky fooled a pair of seasoned NASA (news - web sites) scientists, has other researchers around the globe mystified, and made a minor celebrity of a teenage photographer."

Be sure to click the link to the picture in question in the body of the story. Link thanks to Philos.

New Scientist: "Humanoid robots capable of performing somersaults and complex martial arts moves were demonstrated at Asia's largest electronics and computing fair in Tokyo on Saturday."

Link thanks to Dierdorf

Phenomena - Home - Editorial: "Fans of the BBC television series 'Doctor Who' are gearing up for the big announcement soon of who will be playing the travelling Timelord in the new series about to be filmed. And discussion has gone into overdrive since a former 'Doctor' - the singular Tom Baker - announced on radio that British comedian Eddie Izzard is set to take the role. "

At last, the master finds a role worthy of him!

Copplestone Castings 28mm The Back of Beyond

This site includes a number of army lists for a mini game called Contemptible Little Armies. The lists are based around 1920's pulp adventure in Chin and Eastern Russia. It includes some great background info as well as army lists for local warlords, archeaological expeditions, and so on. Having recently read The Search for Ubar, with it's accounts of gun toting American archaeologists and their run-ins with the local warlords in Yemen and Oman, I'm primed for this!

Salon.com News | Amish seek help from machines after storm: "With the blessing of their bishops, Amish farmers are desperately rounding up heavy farm equipment to harvest cornfields left vulnerable when Tropical Storm Isabel blew through central Pennsylvania last month."

www.gapingvoid.com : Hugh MacLeod reminds me why I was drawn to Blogging in the first place with an extremely thoughtful rant on the advertising indsutry.

"I was talking to a banker friend (not a client) about bank & financial marketing.

'Money is a commodity,' she says, 'All the services are pretty much the same. Makes it hard to market the stuff.'

'Yeah, well,' I say, 'If they're buying the same stock photos of the same silver-haired couple playing golf and cranking out the same 'managing your hard-earned success' drivel as their competition, then they should expect the same crappy results.'

'Agreed,' she says, 'but still, it's a conservative market. Doing something edgy would scare too many people.'

'Well,' I say, 'if you can't be edgy, be lucid.'

'Lucid?'

'Yeah. You and your colleagues... you're all pretty smart, engaging people. When you guys talk about your work it's pretty interesting to listen to. How come your brochures aren't the same?' "

Adrants Steve Hall's Advertising Weblog including, internet marketing and online advertising with news, commentary, and opinion.

GameZone.com - PC Game - Empire in Arms the Napoleonic Wars of 1805 - 1815 looks interesting.

alana's dear blog: new project: compleat diagram of strange persons 2003

Link thanks to Philos