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.