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Gaming

$10K reward for Magic Cards

We’re reasonably close to Roanoke here in the Triangle, so those of you that read this and are gamers…keep your eyes out!

Star City Games offers $10,000 reward for thief
On Saturday morning, December 20th, sometime between 1 – 6 a.m., someone (or several people) broke into the back of StarCityGames.com’s Roanoke, VA warehouse, not an easy thing to do. Once they finally got in, they quickly, but methodically, stole significant quantities (exact numbers are still being compiled) of older, collectable, Type One singles. This included numerous Black Loti, Moxes, Ancestral Recalls, Time Walks, Timetwisters, Juzam Djinns, Library of Alexandrias, etc.
Our insurance will pay to replace the cards, and our already heavy security measures are being increased by tenfold. At this point, most people would probably chalk this up to “experience” and simply leave it at that. However, I am not “most people”, as whoever did this is about to find out.

Today, I am publicly offering a $10,000 “no questions asked” bounty on the individual(s) who broke into our warehouse.

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Digital Culture

And the Winner is….

…Jackson!

It’s a back massager, more accurately a Thera-Cane. It’s the most oddly designed massager EVER, and seems nearly useless in my experimenting with it, but served itself well as a white elephant gift!

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Digital Culture

Brush with celebrity…

..via email. In doing some basic bibliographic work for my upcoming Master’s Paper, I discoverd that Larry Lessig has a new book coming out in late March that is concerned with my topic. Deciding that I had little to lose, I dropped him an email outlining what I’m working on, and asking if it were possible to see any of the work before publication.

I just got an email back from him asking for my address so that he could send me a pre-press of it. 🙂 It’s geeky, but I’m thrilled!

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Digital Culture

Geek Social Fallacies

Here is a brilliant analysis of the top 5 geek social fallacies. The author (Michael Suileabhain-Wilson) shows a certain amount of deep understanding of geek mental activities and cause-effect relations vis a vis social interactions. Very astute stuff.

So…who thinks they are a carrier of some of these characteristics? I am definitely a GSF3, and have been guilty of GSF1 at times.

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Digital Culture

Check out the ZipCar!

I sent this out last semester in an email to the SILS community, but here it is for anyone who forgot. Starting in January, Zipcar will be available on campus.
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UNC faculty, staff, students (over 21 years old), and Departments can join Zipcar for only $20/year. Even better, we’ll give you $20 in driving credit for your first month of membership.

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Digital Culture

Kick Ass Flash of the Day

Self Picasso
That’s a really bad version of me, via Mr. Picasso Head. Check it out…very, very cool use of flash. So smooth, it’s like butter.

Like a big stick of buttah.

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Digital Culture

Your mission, should you choose to accept it

Is to tell me: What the hell is this?

Hint: I recieved it as a white elephant gift for Christmas. Consider it a librarian challenge. First person to get the answer recieves the respect of reference librarians everywhere.

Yes, I do know what it is. I just want to see how hard it is to find out with only a picture.

<edit121603>Since Catherine asked: the object is a very hard plastic, and approximately 2 feet long. The two long side protrusions are maybe 4 1/2 inches, with the two small protrusions being slightly less than 1 inch.</edit121603>

<edit121703>No to both Justin and Patrick…it is neither a thing for hanging or a handrail. This is fun! Anyone else wanna give it a try?</edit121703>
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Digital Culture

Cool idea for Open Source and Libraries

But as all things, frought with difficulty.

From Slashdot, a story of one man’s attempt at getting Open Source CD’s into his public libraries in Edinburgh, Scotland. In the story is a great PDF of his story and problems that he had. A good read for librarians everywhere.

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Digital Culture

Just a quick note…

…that yes, I’m still alive. 🙂 Busy, busy, busy with the preparations for celebration of the upcoming holidays.

Things I’m looking forward to:
Seeing Return of the King on Wednesday
Opening all my kick-ass presents from Betsy
Hanging out with my family

Things I’m NOT looking forward to:
Driving…lots of driving
Not seeing everyone for weeks…those of you that will be around after xmas, leave a comment, ok? Just so I know who I can go out with while Betsy is in San Diego at the MLA

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Digital Culture

Check out Justin…

…on boingboing! (cool link, btw).