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Book Impressions: World of Warcraft: Arthas – Rise of the Lich King
I never played any of the Warcraft PC games, but I’ve played World of Warcraft since November 2004. I own all of the Warcraft novels, but have only gotten around to reading one of them (Warcraft: Day of the Dragon by Richard A. Knaak). I was excited to read that Dick Hill had recorded 3…
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Papercraft Friday #44: TMNT Leonardo
Papercraft designer BlueDragon, who I have showcased before, has come out with another great model. I really like this guy’s work. This time it’s that hero in a half shell Leonardo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Complete with his two ninjaken and blue bandana, he looks awesome. You can download either .pdo or .pdf versions…
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Alone In The Dark: Zark’s E3 Rant
The week of E3 is an exciting time to learn about what’s coming up in the world of gaming. Yet as I watch E3 unfold this week, through coverage on G4TV and on gaming sites like Kotaku and Joystiq, I tend to feel “alone in the dark” with regards to my gaming preferences. Maybe I…
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Modded Atari 2600 = Old Skool Fun
I saw an article awhile back on Ben Heckendorn’s site about modder Parker Dillmann, a.k.a “The Longhorn Engineer” and his Atari 2600 video mod. He sells circuit board mod kits to add composite/S-video picture functionality to the 2600. That’s been an issue of mine the last few years… trying to hook up my 2600 (the…
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Trek Tuesday #2: Charlie X
STATS Original Airdate: 9/15/66 Starting Stardate: 1533.6 STORY The Enterprise takes on a teenage boy that was the sole survivor of a crash when he was 3, and some of the strange things that begin to happen onboard show there may be more to him that appears. STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS Robert Walker Jr. looks like…
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Trek Tuesday Remastered
My good buddy Justin from justinriggle.com answered the call to join me on Trek Tuesday. He bought some cool ideas to the party, so we’re going to combine my original thoughts with his ideas into one happy post. Our comments on all sections will be combined, and at the end we’ll each give you our…
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Papercraft Friday #43: Totakeke “K.K. Slider”
I couldn’t decide last week whether to pick this model or the fishing girl for my Animal Crossing papercraft, so I decided just to do both. In Animal Crossing: City Folk, head on over to The Roost after 8 p.m. Saturday night, and K.K. will play you a song. Afterwards he’ll give you boot of…
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Trek Tuesday #1: The Man Trap
STATS Original Airdate: 9/08/66 Starting Stardate: 1513.1 STORY The Enterprise stops by M-1113 for a routine medical inspection of an archeologist and his wife (an old flame of McCoy) and are threatened by a shape-shifting alien that craves salt. STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS Rigley’s Pleasure Planet…need to go there some time Starship surgeon? Everyone is very…
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Coming Soon: Trek Tuesday
So I’ve been thinking of adding two new features to the blog, similar in nature. The first of these is what I’m going to call Trek Tuesday. The new movie has gotten me in the mood to watch some Star Trek, and the week the movie came out, the Blu-ray set of the first season…
