Microman Kabuto and The Bee.
Fan-customs.

Hayashi Hiroki’s dolls.
His custom painted faces are stunningly realistic. Steer clear of the link if photos of dolls in various states of undress bother you.

Knitted robots.

Toyfare interviews Stikfas creator. [via]
“We’re going to be putting magnets into our products, motorized parts, wind-ups parts…” Re: Xevoz: “Hasbro is a huge company, so there are many examples of things that they gave up that later became big.” A subtle criticism and a hint of Stikfas’ future plans.

Convoy power-up.
Takara Tomy’s THS-02 Convoy is getting a lot of love.

Paper robots. [via]
My favourite.

Convoy, convoy.
The benefit of being a popular character with toys at multiple price points.

Guild Wars Factions cinematic trailer.
Wow.

Heavy downloaders targetted. [via]
“BT is pulling the plug on around 4,000 broadband hogs because of ‘excessive usage’.”

GamingSteve interviews Arena.net’s Jeff Strain.
33.9MB MP3 file, 1 hour 14 minutes long. Two interesting Guild Wars notes: built-in voice chat is in the works and the recent problem with the economy was caused by a bad network card on a database server. The one question I wish interviewers would ask is: how solo-friendly is the upcoming Factions campaign and how many areas/missions are undoable without guildmates or a pick-up group?

“… not good mental nourishment …”
“Won’t someone think of the children?” through the ages.

“Let there be lite.”
The Fall of Man.

Ask MeFi’s recommended non-fiction books.
I’ll second the recommendation of Gourevitch’s Stories from Rwanda and I’d add Jonathan Glover’s Humanity and Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate.