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Bow before Our Negro President who was also Inaugurated in Lego form; Watch a man Control LIGHTNING with the Power of Rock; and marvel at The self-assembling Lego Millenium Falcon.

Behold, the utter awesomeness of the Lego Vault. I have to go mastur... I mean, weep tears of jealousy now. Also, read about the The 6 Most Badass Stunts Ever Pulled in the Name of Science, and check out the most accurate review of DnD 4E on the net.

Think how bad his producer must have it.

Also, the new ant pieces from the Indian Jones Lego sets can be combined with a decapitated minifig to make a decent Khepri:



I've also finally gotten around to un-screening my "unscreen this if i'm dead right now" posts from Iraq. Well, they're still friends-locked, but anyway. There are fewer than I remember, so I must have forgotten to tag some of them, and I'll have to go through my posts manually now to find them all. Oh well. And BTW, this is NOT a subtle cry for help, I feel surprisingly un-suicidal right now.

The new Lego Minimizer is even cooler than the old, 'cuz it has Guns and Booze!

I can has lolspeak too!









For those not in the know, a Drider is a Drow who failed the tests of their evil Demon Goddess Lolth, and was cursed to live as a half-elf, half-spider monstrosity. Furthermore, this beautiful creation of mine serves as a perfect rebuke to those fools who claim that lego pieces have gotten "too specialized". 10 years ago, it would have been impossible for me to create such a wondrous vision, as the pieces required did not yet exist. But now! We are truly living in the Golden Age.

The only thing I need to do now is get some color matching done, and find a better face and hairpiece. If I'd been able to afford the Star Wars Sandcrawler set, a Jawa head would be perfect, but I'm not spending 8 bucks to get that one piece used, and the set itself is still too pricey on ebay, alas.

Cross-posted to legos

"Oh, what a cool picture!"


"I think I will draw the exact same one and put my name on it!"


For an explanation, go here, and for vast amounts of other meme-sheep art, check out the links here. Hmm, people may think the term "Meme-sheep" is insulting. How about "Meme-slut" instead? ;-)

*Why did I put the word "thief" in quotes, you ask? Simple: I don't believe that so-called "intellectual property" has the same moral status that real property does. "But artists deserve to be paid for their work!" you say? You're right, they do, but so do cab driver, and no one would claim that a customer who cheated a cabbie out of his fare was "stealing" a ride the same way that a shoplifter steals physical goods. Both are equally wrong and damaging to the victim, both deserve equal punishment, but they are _not_ the same.

Personally, I think we would be much better off thinking of art, software, etc. as "Intellectual services" instead. Much less cognitive dissonance involved.

I have now created an Invid Scout model. Behold!



( More pics behind cut. They'll blow your <bleep>in' mind )

Well, that's that. A few moments of spontaneous praise for my brilliance would not be inappropriate right now.

For my next minor project, I'll build an Invid Shock trooper. This one won't be entirely accurate, though, as many of the pieces I need have never been made in purple.

As for my next _major_ project... BricKt'hulhu. While too angular to be non-euclidean, he'll be every bit as squamous and rugose as the original.

I figure I'm about 3/4 of the way through with organizing my Legos. Soon as I'm done, I shall embark on a great-yet-relatively-modest project: a more or less minifig scale, transformable Logan from Robotech. For accuracy's sake, it should be tan, but some of the pieces I'll need for it don't come in that color. Or do they....?

In other geeky news, I'm enjoying the current series of "Transformers" comics more than I thought. They lack the campy fun of the originals, but they're actually intelligently written, and as realistic as a comic about giant transforming robots can be. For example, Megatron and Optimus Prime actually behave like _real_ leaders. Megs doesn't cackle or engage in mindless malice, and Prime understands the concepts of "acceptable losses" and "collateral damage". Simon Furman seems to have overcome his earlier limitations as a writer... Can I, then, do less?

Elsewhere, Bloggers vs brownshirts, God hates _a_ fag, How the Ex-gay movement really works, Crazy Harry plays with electricity, Some HONEST televangelists, Welcome to Law School, and finally, use condoms.

Some day, the Lego corporation will expand the current "Lego Creator" concept to a "brick-on-demand" service, where you will be able to order any brick you want, in any color needed. At that point, it will be possible to mass-order the transparent/translucent bricks needed to build such wonderful projects as the Palace of the High Ones, or an optically camouflaged Tachikoma. When that glorious time comes to pass, geeks everywhere will rejoice.

Speaking of Ghost in the shell, one of the neat things I've noticed about the "Stand Alone Complex" series is that optically camouflaged characters really _do_ become more noticeable when they move. I thought that was a neat touch. Something that I found highly annoying, though: For an elite paramilitary unit, Section Nine has _lousy_ muzzle discipline. They 'flag' each other _all_the_damned_time_. I don't care how advanced the fire-control capacities of their weapons and artificial cyber-bodies are, the whole unit is a frindly-fire Darwin Award waiting to happen. This would't be so jarring, if the rest of the show wasn't so realistic. But ASIDE from that, the series is great, and everyone should watch it.

"Most Iraqis Favor Immediate U.S. Pullout, Polls Show

BAGHDAD, Sept. 26 -- A strong majority of Iraqis want U.S.-led military forces to immediately withdraw from the country, saying their swift departure would make Iraq more secure and decrease sectarian violence, according to new polls by the State Department and independent researchers."

So, that means we have to leave, right? I mean, if it's a War of Liberation, and the people you Liberated tell you to leave, you're sorta obliged...

"Four charged in graffiti spree.

South Congress Avenue businessman Brandon Hodge doesn't care if he never sees the names Gimix, Scope, Radar or Zenac again... Hodge wondered who the graffiti artists were, so the president of the 60-member South Austin Merchants Association, acting on a hunch, logged onto myspace.com and poked around to see if any of them had a personal Web page on the popular hosting site."

And they did. Complete with incriminating photos. I hope they get extra punishment for sheer retardedness...

"Tattoo in prison makes molester a marked man.

CARLISLE, Ind. -- An inmate serving life in prison for molesting and killing 10-year-old Katie Collman is now the subject of an investigation into how he ended up with the tattoo "Katie's Revenge" emblazoned across his forehead."

As prison tattoos go, it was a pretty good one too. Nice, clean lines, looks like it won't fade or blur. My complements to the artist. (Evil grin)

In current events, Kip Hawley Is An Idiot. Going back to the news of a month ago, the liquid bomb plot was completely unfeasible. _I_ already knew that, having read the Poor Man's James Bond cover to cover. Further back in history, Why did Thomas Jefferson Hate America?

More important than all this foolishness, behold the glory of the Lego Hall of Justice. I wish I could take credit for it. But when I build my Lego Tachikoma, my place in Geek Lore shall be assured!