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Genpets: horrifying genetically modified pets created by Adam Brandejs

Posted: 24 Jun 2008 02:21 PM CDT

Go here for purchase information and to learn "about all the features that make the Genpets different from other pets." And go here to learn more about the project. Via.

Mountees: Cute mounted animal heads for your fridge

Posted: 24 Jun 2008 01:23 PM CDT

$24 for the set of six, free shipping.

Big Jim - - the toy line that was recycled by Mattel for Masters of the Universe figures

Posted: 24 Jun 2008 12:39 PM CDT

Here's Trap Jaw, a Masters of the Universe action figure every child of the 80's should be familiar with:

And here's Big Jim character Iron Jaw, from a toy line that came out in 1971:

Man-E-Faces, who I thought was so cool - - what the hell was I thinking?

Big Jim figures Zorak and Vektor

Many more examples here. Via.

There's actually a bunch of Big Jim figures on sale at eBay, including the evil Zorak.

The cast of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, by Dapper Dan

Posted: 24 Jun 2008 12:02 PM CDT

Click through for the entire image.

Royal Icon Set

Posted: 24 Jun 2008 12:00 PM CDT

Download here.

Samus Aran illustration by Tim Kelly

Posted: 24 Jun 2008 11:49 AM CDT

Samus Aran by ~TimKelly on deviant ART

*Previously: Custom Zero Suit Samus action figure.

Remember when the Fantastic Four fought Mickey Mouse?

Posted: 24 Jun 2008 12:48 AM CDT

Art by Puño. Via.

*Find Marvel Select action figures at Entertainment Earth.

Interesting article about the war on terror

Posted: 23 Jun 2008 10:16 PM CDT

Scott Shane for the NY Times.

Using the numbers, and premises linked to them, Mr. Martinez and his colleagues sought to identify Abu Zubaydah's most likely hide-outs. They could not reduce the list to fewer than 14 addresses in Lahore and Faisalabad, which they put under surveillance. At 2 a.m. on March 28, 2002, teams led by Pakistan's Punjab Elite Force, with Americans waiting outside, hit the locations all at once.

One of the SWAT teams found Abu Zubaydah, protected by Syrian and Egyptian bodyguards, at a handsome house on Canal Road in Faisalabad. It held bomb-making equipment and a safe loaded with $100,000 in cash, according to a terrorism consultant briefed on the event. Photographs of the raid reviewed by The Times last month showed Abu Zubaydah, a cleanshaven 30-year-old Palestinian, shot three times during the raid, lying face down in the back of a Toyota pickup before he was taken to a hospital.

At first, Abu Zubaydah fell in and out of consciousness, emerging occasionally to speak incoherently — once, evidently imagining himself in a restaurant, ordering a glass of red wine, a C.I.A. official said. The agency, desperate to keep him alive, flew in a Johns Hopkins Hospital surgeon to consult. Within a few days, Abu Zubaydah was flown to Thailand, to the first of the "black sites," the agency's interrogation facilities for major Qaeda figures.

Long, interesting article. Read the whole thing.

"Afrodisiac Meets Dracula," by Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca

Posted: 23 Jun 2008 07:09 PM CDT