Wonderland

Star Wars baby dribble bibs

Our little'un went through a brace of these, and looked like a cowgirl in the meanwhile. They're great. These ones in particular though, are fabulous.

 

I'd wear one! Not that I drool, you understand.

Ready, I tell ya.

Zombies, pfff. Easy.

L4D2 demo day

Demo day. I got invited to that thing yesterday, and duly went along to check it out. First up, the location was a jaw-drop.

Guns and riflemakers? Genius!

I could swear this is an original shop, unless this John Wilkes signage went up a week or so ago, because I noticed and admired it a few days back after a meal at Mildred's round the corner. Anyway, inside: downstairs was a 4-box setup, and I played a bit. There's a defibrillator; and the melee weps, and a weird neck-riding Jockey character, but it's otherwise seemingly more of the same glorious L4D co-op shooty goodness. In bright daylight: that bit did stand out. Not sure if it lasts throughout the full game.

I didn't get much of a handle on the characters - and the setup had captions switched off - so I couldn't see if there's a joker like Francis in the team. Hoping so. There's a full writeup over here, though.

Upstairs. They weren't kidding about hands-on melee weapon training. Dark room, with some rubber zombies in it, and two huge fellas in flak jackets and face masks. Made all my adrenalin fire, oddly, so I had a mild case of shaky hands for the first few minutes. Nothing like a pile of guns lying about to make you slightly sweaty.

Turns out - after fun with an AK-47 and a frying pan (heavier than it looks!), that the baseball bat is my real-world melee weapon of choice. I am now trained in collarbone-breaking followed by a solid thump to the spinal column for optimum neck severage.

Zombapocalypse, I am ready.

Folksy: space invader scarf

One for the Brits, this, as it's Scottish-made. Post Office strikes aside, the shipping charge at least should be manageable and it might arrive in time for winterval.

 

Lovely scarf.

Grr! or Arg! necklace

(Someone's been watching too much Buffy/Firefly/Dollhouse....)

 

The GRRR! and ARG! necklaces, at Folksy. 6 quid.

Trek onesie

First post of many in the run-up to holiday season... the Trek Onesie. 

Beautiful. From Thinkgeek. Where else. $16.

Sega zippos

The megadrive one is excellent!

Very expensive and only in Japan. Of course.

(via)

Spirit Tracks

KAPOW!

Pre-ordered. Poor ole DS has been gathering dust.

Farmville art

After Seb's comment in the previous post, I thought I'd google Farmville art. HAH! Obviously it's an advanced and ongoing movement! There's a group on Facebook, with 13K+ fans, producing farms such as this:

 

and, heh, this:

 

There's a WHOLE PAGE of game related ones, with some invaders that kick my invader's arse. Bah.

It's come to this

(You'll see I'm short of haybales for my HELP. Donations gratefully received :-))

I thought I was being clever, until I saw what Julian Dibbell's done. 

 

Pwnage.