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JAL stewardess uniforms feared hot item on black market
Already engaged in a struggle to emerge from bankruptcy, Japan Air Lines is now engaged in a fight of a different sort: Keeping the stylish outfits of laid-off flight attendants off the black market and out of the hands of uniform fetishists.
A jacket alone can fetch several hundred pounds, while one site is presently advertising [...]
Vintage Japanese industrial expo poster gallery
Check out this sweet gallery of vinyage posters from Japanese industrial expositions from the 1920s-1940s.
(via BoingBoing)
LEGO link of the day
A model of Howl’s Moving Castle made of LEGO. ‘Nuff said.
(via BoingBoing)
The Epoxies stick with new wave style
So there I was, playing Dance Dance Revolution X, and I find myself grooving on this great New Wave song called “Synthesized” by some band called The Epoxies. And I wonder, how the heck did I miss this band back in the ’80s?
Off-Topic Post of the Day: CCP wants you to Harden the Fuck Up
Over the last few Gen Con game conventions, Assistant Ed Mazinga and myself have had a handful of opportunities to chat with the fine folk at CCP / White Wolf Games and they’re a pretty righteous bunch. At this year’s con Mazinga interviewed CCP’s Ned Coker, and their infamous Club Succubus parties are always worth [...]
Off-Topic: Modern Warfare 2 comes with fully functional night-vision goggles
Ye gods, I am a sucker for limited edition swag. Seriously. If ebola came in a limited edition, I’d get it. So do I want the new Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition – which comes with a set of fucking night vision goggles? Does the Pope shit in the woods?
Seriously, here – check out this [...]
Off-Topic: ‘Bordertown’ returns!
I was overjoyed tonight to learn that the shared-world fantasy anthology series Bordertown will return with a new volume at some indeterminate point in the future. Bordertown was one of my favorite series to have emerged from the ’shared-world’ fad back in the 80’s (the other being Robert Asprin’s Thieves’ World), mainly because it sewed [...]
