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AvalanchePress: Avalanche Press Announces "Hurricane Relief" Sale (Oct 02 2003 02:58 GMT) - From Avalanche Press: "On Thursday, 18 September 2003, Avalanche Press was forced to shut down operations at its plant in Virginia Beach VA owing to the arrival of Hurricane Isabel. The company's warehouse and shipping division is based in that location. With power knocked out and widespread damage from the ... |
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TrollLordGames: Map of Erde Preview (Oct 02 2003 02:58 GMT) - New Sneak Peek from Troll Lord: "Its game night here, but before we begin the eve's festivities (I begin the 1st edition module, Descent into the Unknown) I thought I would give you all noble folk a look see at the new Map of Erde. This only a piece of it to be sure, but how beautiful it looks!" Click here to take a look... |
GamingReport.com
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FantasyFlightGames: Arena Maximus Preview (Oct 02 2003 02:58 GMT) - Fantasy Flight talks about another upcoming release, "Arena Maximus" in their latest rant: "Arena Maximus is a game of fantasy chariot racing that uses card management and a tile-built track as the core of the game. The track (as you can see by the mockup below) sets up to look like a nice Romanesque chariot track, and is littered with ... |
Tangognat
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giant robots and their eggs (Oct 02 2003 02:57 GMT) - I finished watching Revolutionary Girl Utena. The later episodes get progressively darker, you have storylines dealing with incest, immolation of junior high students, and standing shirtlessly on the hoods of moving sports cars. It had one of the more satisfying endings to an anime series that I've seen, I was worried about getting a more traditional fairy-tale ending due to Utena's Prince obsession but that thankfully didn't happen. Now I've moved on to RahXephon, which tells the story of an artistic boy named Ayato who discovers that strange people are out to get him, stumbles across a giant egg from which hatches a giant mecha that only he can pilot, sees that his mom has spooky blue blood, and bursts out of a shell surrounding Tokyo only to realize that contrary to what he has been taught, the rest of the world still exists, he has to set his watch 12 years ahead into the future, and he has to get to work fighting giant singing alien invaders! There is much debate (among those who care to debate such things) about RahXephon and its similarities to Evangelion. |
The Shifted Librarian
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Net-using NetGens Increarsing in Europe (Oct 02 2003 02:57 GMT) - Eurokids Fastest-growing Online Population Segment "Kids in Europe who surf the 'Net for everything from tunes to term paper templates have become the fastest-growing portion of the Internet population, according to a new Nielsen/Netratings study released yesterday. 'Some 13 million children under the age of 18 in eight countries surveyed surf the web for school work, games and music, a rise of some 27 percent over last year. Four million were under age 12... the findings from the survey covering Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and the Netherlands suggest that a plea from educators and politicians to add the Internet to school curricula and make high-speed Internet services cheaper as well as more accessible is paying off.' Link (via pho)" [Boing Boing Blog] Remember, there are more NetGens worldwide than there are Baby Boomers, and you know what kind of an impact the Baby Boomers had on our culture.... |
Wikipedia
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Simply American
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New Hampshire Free State (Oct 02 2003 02:54 GMT) - Some libertarians (not the Party) want to do to New Hampshire what the socialists did to Vermont: move in and take over. Well, take over in the only way libertarians would take over: New Hampshire, whose motto is "Live Free or Die," beat out nine other finalists for the Free State Project. Wyoming was runner-up but 10 percentage points behind New Hampshire in balloting conducted by about 5,000 members of the project around the country, Project Vice President Elizabeth McKinstry said. |
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999,999,999,990 Jedi Master Points (Oct 02 2003 02:53 GMT) - Considering how strongly some collector's feel about the Hasbro Jedi Master Points program being a poor effort, it's not really that much of a surprise to see fake bid amounts being placed. Jorg Sacul and the Playskook Falcon ar up to 999,999,999,990 points each already. The Mos Eisley Cantina set is lagging at 259,999,990,000. |
MfD OpenForum
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Union's former glory on the line (Oct 02 2003 02:53 GMT) - Hmmmm.... Now where have I heard of similar activities? quote:Once deemed an outsider with a penchant for making trouble, Ensley earned credibility after loudly claiming that he believed the union's infamous 1996 contract vote was rigged. This was the vote in which members mysteriously ratified a contract that included two years of no pay increases. |
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