I saw that Beth of She Who Will Be Obeyed posted a link to WEBoggle.

Which I passed along to Beloved Wife TNT of Smiling Dynamite.

She'd hate me for getting her hooked on it, but that would cut into her playing time.

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I took a tip from bloggrandson Neonangel of Lyrical Coma, and checked out "The Order of the Stick", a thrice-weekly serial web comic.

Now, I was not an obsessive gamer in high school, but the rest of my friends from chess club were, and I went on a handful of campaigns. Enough to know what "roll for initiative" means, anyway.

So if you've even a passing knowledge of D&D, I think you'll find it amusing.

I'll give you 3 places to choose from for your first visit:

Comic #1 (it's very nearly at #300 now) - Get in on the ground floor and read them in order.

Comic #143 - A typical instance of the humor - the illustrations are of the player characters inside their quest, while the dialogue is pretty much what you'd hear from the players as they sit in the basement drinking Mountain Dew & eating Cheetos. This tickles me, for some reason.

Comic #136 - The Weapons Shop sketch - an homage to Monty Python (you KNEW there would be one in there somewhere, right?).

Anyway, I now return you to your regularly scheduled World of Warcraft session.

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Found this at American Digest

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Square A and Square B are the same color.

I saw the animated video which proves it. It didn't convince me.

I read the explanation. It didn't convince me.

I downloaded the pic, opened it up in MS Paint, cut out a chunk of square B and slid it up to square A...

After about 5 minutes of sliding that little section back & forth, I was finally convinced.

Try it yourself.

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Ryan vs. Dorkman

Impeccable choreography, clean special effects. Lucas could learn something from these guys.

This would also be a good time to introduce KeepVid. A web page that allows you to download videos from sites that only offer streaming (like Google Video, YouTube, iFilm, and others).

User's note - be sure you've selected the right tab on the page before pasting in the video URL, otherwise it won't work.

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Who's got the cheapest gas in town?

Click here, enter your zip code, and find out.

[Hat tip: Leslie's Omnibus]

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