A Different Way to Play Battleship (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) - Wired (blog)


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A Different Way to Play Battleship (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
Wired (blog)
The people are actually quite a bit more flexible than Lego minifigs: they can pivot at the waist, and the arms and legs are attached with ball joints rather than just pivots, which allows you to pose them in ways that Lego minifigs can't.

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Boogie Woogie; Memory Tripping; and a Little Good News From Lamorinda - Patch.com

Boogie Woogie; Memory Tripping; and a Little Good News From Lamorinda
Patch.com
... to handle "phone ins" at my old paper once skewered me for complaining that I was having trouble filing my account of the latest urban bloodbath because the big-as-a-WWII-walkie-talkie cell phone they'd issued us back in the day kept cutting out.

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Jumping Through Hoops - Vanity Fair

Jumping Through Hoops
Vanity Fair
“You wouldn't want literally at the moment you were going into battle to be talking about bits of the Olympics,” he said. In early May, after two months of fighting in Iraq, President George W. Bush gave his “Mission Accomplished” speech, ...

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