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I am still sometimes surprised by the lack of subtelty in japanese adverts . ( tokyopia )

My cousin, Marcus, reads this blog so I naturally thought of him when I ran into this massive collection of KISS covers from KISS Army Sweden. When Marcus was into KISS, it was about the point where I was enjoying The Muppet Movie and other Henson-created projects; so I was happy, and baffled to simultaneously find this collection of Muppet Albums at Copy, Right .

( coop’s blog )

Justice Rats = Mallrats times Superfriends ( KD O’Bryan )

“Booooo heat wave and humidity! HOOORAY BEER !”

Directed by Christopher Nolan of Batman Begins and Memento fame, The Prestige is about a rivalry by two 19th century magicians played by Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. It also has Michael “my name is Michael Caine” Caine in it, so what’s not to love?

( YouTube link ) (thanks, JP )

Some light reading for you tabletop RPG fans out there. Both are oldies but goodies, and worthy of review from time to time: The Gazebo Story The Head of Vecna What is strange is way I have read these stories has changed over time. The Gazebo Story was originally a tale of how lame and stupid the player was, though it has transformed into a cautionary tale about communication for me. It isn’t simply the player’s fault that the acts occurred. The DM definitely should have trotted out a more helpful description when it became clear that the player was not aware of the situation. But then it wouldn’t be so funny. There might be a corollary for The Head of Vecna , but it can be hard to avoid stupidity in groups. (thanks, Monty )

Chad Vader - Day Shift Manager (episode 1) ( YouTube link ): This is the kind of future that weepy, soppy, spoiled Hayden Christianson’s prequel-Vader would probably have faced. ... Man, what happened to that badass from A New Hope ?

My first post in a long while was greeted exuberantly by a flood of fifteen, simultaneously posted, vaguely worded Comments, sprayed all throughout various entries, in a sad attempt at using me for SEO tricksiness. So it looks like some newfangled abuse is allowing spammers to see when I update and to barrage me with crap, like some kind of high-powered sniper-spam-rifle waiting for me to pop up my head. The short version: I have turned on Comment Moderation, so your comments will not go up until I have approved them. This may cause a brief delay, but it seems better than the password option that other Blogger journals seem fond of requiring lately—those damned things never work for me.

Comboling : Sequentially connect the arrayed squares using only vertical, horizontal, or 45° diagonal lines. ( wired: table of malcontents )

Bad Gods (thanks, TimK)

submersible yachts Amphibious sportscars

Get a sample of Oni Press’ Wasteland - One Hundred Years After The Big Wet . Unlike most free, downloadable previews, instead of making it a bloated, nasty PDF, they are offering individual JPEG files, or even CBR and Bit-Torrent distributing, to boot. Just like bootleg comics, but “for reals.” (warren ellis’ BAD SIGNAL)

100 Awesome Music Videos contrasted with 50 Dumbest Rock-Star Extravagances . [ brad sucks ]

Kawaii Not : “the webcomic for cute gone bad!”

This hidden camera prank features the ubiquitous, coin-operated massage chairs at Japanese hot-spring resorts. These particular seats are at a ski lodge’s mini-spa, which features a new variation on the indoor-outdoor hotspring theme. Censored, but still potentially NSFW. ( YouTube link ) ( tokyopia )

Many of these facts are NSFW listening. YouTube link . (thanks, lee )