19691981 BC

Did they make cheesecake out of dinosaurs back then? Here is some gratuitous Eighties music and some gratuitous Raquel Welch in a fur bikini shots to start your weekend off right. Never let it be said that I refuse to pander!

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Operation Global Media Domination: the Chinese Gwyneth Paltrow Situation

social mediaLooking at my stats for the past hour, it appears that someone who reads Valleywag but doesn’t officially work there thinks I’m Lainey. Because presumably the people who work there know very well that I linked to them from the gossip blog only a few days ago, and they know it’s not Lainey‘s. So, am I Lainey?

This would be a “no.”

My gossip, however non-lucrative, is at least not consistently four days late. Seriously, when I started I wanted to give homegirl the luv, since all I do is link to other gossip blogs and she is a famously bootstrapping local. But after a couple of weeks trawling through the digital equivalent of stale, tepid bile drawn from the liver of a superannuated Robson Street barfly, I gave up. If it’s vicious, I can’t use it unless it’s also really funny. But if it’s stale and/or dull, I can’t use it at all.

So, keep looking. I’m still not going to blog about you. Levin, maybe.

RIP Gary Gygax

Gary Gygax

He failed his saving throw vs Death. You just can’t come back from a natural 0, even if you did invent the game.

Gary Gygax, inventor of the fantasy roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons and born-again Christian, has died at his home after a long battle with illness. He had suffered several strokes and a near-fatal heart attack within recent months. The funeral is to be a private, family event. Forum posts by friends and fans are posted at Troll Lord Games, who are adding information as it becomes available. His influence went far beyond the world of RPGs and influenced two generations of fantasy writers and not a few armchair theologians as well.

Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?

-JRRT

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i can has low interest rate and no user fees?

1163919784-1162668862733.jpgi can has 10% interest rate Mastercard and a musical welcum?

frum kittuns?

Yes. Yes, u can has.

You’ve just gotta luv a banking website that has the wait warning: “loading kittens. loading ukelele. loading glockenspiel.” Bankwest in Australia has done the research on generating web buzz and they’ve looked at i can has and as a result have hired some adorable ragdoll kittens to bring the message of low interest rate Mastercards to the masses.

Via Neatorama:

As a part of our research so far, we discovered that kittens can make people happy by reducing stress levels.
To test this theory, we’ve made a video featuring kittens, a ukelele, and you. Let’s see if it works…

Thank GOD they saw teh kittehs first and not Perez Hilton, eh?

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quiz: which Transformer are you?

I didn’t do too bad despite being too old young to remember much about the original series, and having had no interest whatsoever in watching the Giant Fucking Robots Movie.

Optimus Prime

I AM
70%
OPTIMUS PRIME
Take the Transformers Quiz

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