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Randomness for 8/16

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1) Wikipedia’s lamest edit wars.

2) Redesigned book covers.

3) A Star Wars Kid for the new age: HALO KID! Video.

4) Our Daughter Isn’t a Selfish Brat; Your Son Just Hasn’t Read
Atlas Shrugged. “When little Aiden toddled up our daughter Johanna and asked to play with her Elmo ball, he was, admittedly, very sweet and polite. I think his exact words were, “Have a ball, peas [sic]?” And I’m sure you were very proud of him for using his manners. To be sure, I was equally proud when Johanna yelled, “No! Looter!” right in his looter face, and then only marginally less proud when she sort of shoved him.”

5) How to recognize a card skimmer at your ATM. via Mary Catelli

6) How good do you have to be to win the World Yo-Yo Championships? Watch and find out. Video.

7) The history of Aquaman, explained.

Announcing a month of book giveaways! Day 16

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Game of Cages will be coming out on the last day of the month, so I’ve decided to hold a special month of book giveaways. Every day (unless I screw up, which I probably will) I’ll give away a book or themed set of books to someone who asks for it. To enter, you have to comment on this blog or on my LiveJournal–email, Facebook, and Twitter won’t count, and if more than one person speaks up, I’ll roll a die to determine the recipient. U.S. residents only, please.

You get a new book every day, and on the last day of the month I’ll give away my own.

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Oh, yeah. You remember this book, which I wrote about here in some detail. Way back when, a year and a half ago, there was some interest in acquiring this book. Now’s your chance!

Update! This item has been won.

Announcing a month of book giveaways! Day 15

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Game of Cages will be coming out on the last day of the month, so I’ve decided to hold a special month of book giveaways. Every day (unless I screw up, which I probably will) I’ll give away a book or themed set of books to someone who asks for it. To enter, you have to comment on this blog or on my LiveJournal–email, Facebook, and Twitter won’t count, and if more than one person speaks up, I’ll roll a die to determine the recipient. U.S. residents only, please.

You get a new book every day, and on the last day of the month I’ll give away my own.

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My son loves these books. He jumps on them when I bring a new one home and reads them straight through. I bought this one for him without realizing he already had a copy. Would you like it?

Update: This book has been won.

Announcing a month of book giveaways! Day 14

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Game of Cages will be coming out on the last day of the month, so I’ve decided to hold a special month of book giveaways. Every day (unless I screw up, which I probably will) I’ll give away a book or themed set of books to someone who asks for it. To enter, you have to comment on this blog or on my LiveJournal–email, Facebook, and Twitter won’t count, and if more than one person speaks up, I’ll roll a die to determine the recipient. U.S. residents only, please.

You get a new book every day, and on the last day of the month I’ll give away my own.

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Want to read the thoughts of a Trappist monk?

Update: This book has been won.

Announcing a month of book giveaways! Day 13

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Game of Cages will be coming out on the last day of the month, so I’ve decided to hold a special month of book giveaways. Every day (unless I screw up, which I probably will) I’ll give away a book or themed set of books to someone who asks for it. To enter, you have to comment on this blog or on my LiveJournal–email, Facebook, and Twitter won’t count, and if more than one person speaks up, I’ll roll a die to determine the recipient. U.S. residents only, please.

You get a new book every day, and on the last day of the month I’ll give away my own.

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You know who I would trust to write about food (and body image, I’m sure) for women? That’s right! The writer of CATHY. When I opened it at random, the recipe I found was Even Though He’s Asleep on the Couch, I Know He’ll Protect Me Hero Sandwich.

And the Peanuts cookbook is thrown in for good measure. Anyone interested in documenting the atrocities?

Update: These books have been won!

Update number 2: The winner hasn’t claimed these books, so I’ll get donating them to the library.

Announcing a month of book giveaways! Day 12

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Game of Cages will be coming out on the last day of the month, so I’ve decided to hold a special month of book giveaways. Every day (unless I screw up, which I probably will) I’ll give away a book or themed set of books to someone who asks for it. To enter, you have to comment on this blog or on my LiveJournal–email, Facebook, and Twitter won’t count, and if more than one person speaks up, I’ll roll a die to determine the recipient. U.S. residents only, please.

You get a new book every day, and on the last day of the month I’ll give away my own.

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Four ST:TNG novels, including The One Important One, Imzadi. Isn’t that the one that everyone loves? If you want them, speak up!

Update: No one spoke up for these books! I’ll hold onto them until the end of the month. If someone wants to claim them, first come first served. If no one does, off to the library they go.

Announcing a month of book giveaways! Day 11

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Game of Cages will be coming out on the last day of the month, so I’ve decided to hold a special month of book giveaways. Every day (unless I screw up, which I probably will) I’ll give away a book or themed set of books to someone who asks for it. To enter, you have to comment on this blog or on my LiveJournal–email, Facebook, and Twitter won’t count, and if more than one person speaks up, I’ll roll a die to determine the recipient. U.S. residents only, please.

You get a new book every day, and on the last day of the month I’ll give away my own.

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Looks pretty self-explanatory. Want it?

Update: This book has been claimed.

Randomness for 8/10

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1) Smart phone defeats hedge row maze.

2) Star Wars and Blaxploitation–how perfectly they fit together. The spoof trailer for Blackstar Warrior. Video.

3) How to quit your job. I don’t care if it’s fake. It’s awesome.

4) How to propose to your gamer girlfriend.

5) YA Dealbreakers. I don’t mind bad covers too much if the book comes highly recommended, but I don’t much care about vampires and I absolutely don’t read supernatural stories about rock stars of any kind (this isn’t as big a deal as it used to be).

6) Real life Yakuza review a Yakuza console game. Pretty damn interesting.

Announcing a month of book giveaways! Day 10

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Game of Cages will be coming out on the last day of the month, so I’ve decided to hold a special month of book giveaways. Every day (unless I screw up, which I probably will) I’ll give away a book or themed set of books to someone who asks for it. To enter, you have to comment on this blog or on my LiveJournal–email, Facebook, and Twitter won’t count, and if more than one person speaks up, I’ll roll a die to determine the recipient. U.S. residents only, please.

You get a new book every day, and on the last day of the month I’ll give away my own.

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At one point, so long ago, I’d planned to write a pre-agricultural/”caveman” fantasy novel, but it never came together. Interested?

Update: This book has been won.

Announcing a month of book giveaways! Day 9

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Game of Cages will be coming out on the last day of the month, so I’ve decided to hold a special month of book giveaways. Every day (unless I screw up, which I probably will) I’ll give away a book or themed set of books to someone who asks for it. To enter, you have to comment on this blog or on my LiveJournal–email, Facebook, and Twitter won’t count, and if more than one person speaks up, I’ll roll a die to determine the recipient. U.S. residents only, please.

You get a new book every day, and on the last day of the month I’ll give away my own.

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Old fashioned nudie pictures of beautiful, zaftig women, many of them wearing flesh-colored body stockings. You know what’s in these books. (FYI, the larger book has had one corner chewed by a mouse.) Interested?

Update: these books have been won.