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i want a japanese flying squirrel costume for my birthday. it’s called a “Kigurumi“,   its a costume for cartoon animals and characters so they can come to life. Just proves again why the japanese are the wackiest types of azns out there. no really, its awesome. better than the hello kitty nighty/costume/fleece thingy. flying squirrels >...

List magazine: - a blog about list of things you wouldn’t even know about - even if you were a contestant on Jeopardy. - Lists are curated by smarty pants in science, art, & public spectacle. 13 Handy Metric Conversions for Time Travelers itrw = 10.46 kilometers In ancient Egypt, there were seven palms...

“This game never plays the same twice!” – Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive VCR Board Game By Racan Souiedan In case you’re not familiar, VCR board games emerged in the 1980s as a form of supposed interactive multimedia, before finally peaking in 1991 with the horror classic Nightmare. While fulfilling a novelty role...

  Space: The Lonesome Frontier – A Brief Look at William Shatner’s Myouterspace.com By Racan Souiedan After hearing so much lately about the legendary William Shatner’s newest venture, Myouterspace.com, I decided to take a look for myself in the hope of discovering what the actor behind Captain Kirk and T.J. Hooker could bring to...

Settlers of Catan: Board Gaming’s Last, Best Hope for the Future? “This must be just like livin’ in paradise!” – David Lee Roth Although an article-length feature on Settlers of Catan probably seems redundant to many at this point, I feel that the game still deserves further written treatment, at the very least for...

The Sasquatch Festival means drinks, drugs and doing the deed—oh yeah and three days of passing out in the desert with some wicked bands. The only problem with Sasquatch is overlapping acts—you can’t be two places at once, so when the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are erupting on one stage while Bon Iver is delicately...

As a history major, I have often found myself struggling to find practical applications for the ideas and knowledge gleaned from my discipline. Far too frequently, the study of history can take on a remarkably dull form, like the boring memorization of supposedly vital dates, names, and places. Recently, however, I have begun to...

Murka Durka is from Saudi Arabia, recently moved here to Canada and is rapping about adventures. Rap Adventure Number #1. MURKA DURKA GOING TO WERKA GOT MY LUNCH IN THE BOX THE LUNCH BOX! THE LUNCH BOX! I EAT MY SOUP WITH SPOON NOT A FORK, SEE? MY SOUP GETS COLD AND I GET...

Detective Instinct: Investigators and the Many Pratfalls of  Cooperative Crime Fighting Investigators is an exceptionally rare cooperative board game in which each player represents a detective in Big City, where a relentless crime wave is threatening the public. During each turn, the detectives of Big City travel the board discovering clues, while trying to...