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so i’m inspecting a fascia (bumper cover) that’s come in from out of town, looking for damage because the box was kind of trashed.
ick, i think, as i run my hand over some thick webbing. i turn the part over, then drop it back on top of it’s box and step back as i [...]

dear the vatican.
fuck you. the dark ages are over.

the terrible pop-up ads on zero punctuation are back. i know it’s horrendously popular and all that, but good lord, if there’s anything on the internet i hate more than heavy-duty flash banner ads that slow down the page-loading to a crawl, it’s pop-up flash ads that display over the very content i’m trying [...]

okay, so yamaha has a program called vocaloid that works like simpletext on the mac, but with song lyrics, and it sounds good, and it works. so they think, hey, why not release a series of versions as a specific character so you can do genre and such?
being japan, they created hatsune miku, a [...]

fred meyers has half an aisle of christmas lights next to the halloween costumes and candy. it’s september.
yeah.

mike wieringo has died of a heart attack. his friend scott kurtz of pvp has some kind words you should read.

scott - gaiman’s doing the script for that, which is about the only promising thing about it.
me - luke saw some footage at the comicon. the scraggly male characters look okay, but the girls who are supposed to be hot, just aren’t.
scott - they’re in the uncanny valley, which is never a good thing.
me [...]

the pictures are online for mcfarlane’s upcoming twisted christmas series. they’re very, uh, mcfarlane. i’ll give them that.
pretty disappointing, though. they’re too generically mcfarlane. the kind of obvious jokes you make in your head, on hearing that mcfarlane had decided to work their dark magic on an actual holiday and not [...]

i’m still irked, but grudgingly accepting the news. partly due to, you know, inevitability, but also because i remembered the nitro riders. five inches tall, 15 points of articulation. and those were great little figures.
if the plastic quality holds up, then a fully posable line of 5″ halo figures could be pretty [...]

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