Save or die.
Takara Tomy’s 2992yen bomb-shaped coin bank will begin blinking its fuse, making noise, vibrating and finally “explode” if you don’t save up.

Re: the Emperor’s New Clothes.
“… the Office of the Prime Minister has laid out the following plan for establishing positive reputation management in the aftermath of the ‘new clothes’ incident …”

Full circle.

Download streaming videos.
The site makes it easy to download videos from a variety of video sites. I use Media Player Classic to play the Flash Video files.

Yotsuba To! scanslations. [via]
I’m not a big fan of cute but Yotsuba To! was irresistibly charming.

Great moments in MMORPG History.
Fansy cracked me up. One man against the system … and the system lost.

Terrible football manager stints.
Reader Neu75 has the best single comment.

Takara Tomy VideoClip.
A 12,600yen multimedia player that records directly from a TV set. It has a 1.8cm 128×160 TFT LCD display, 256MB built-in memory (which holds 2 hours of video or 15 hours of music in MPEG-4 format) and also takes SD cards up to 1GB in size. I want one. I also one that transforms into Soundwave.

WordPress Help Sheet.
This 591kb PDF file will come in handy when you’re modifying your WordPress theme.

Age of Apocalypse Colossus sculpture.
Scroll down for the final version.

Glaurung in Nargothrond.
Three beautiful Silmarillion-inspired paintings.

Jam Project Forever.
One of my favourite groups. They do sound ragged here but that’s only understandable considering the Power of Justice they unleash when they cut loose. I recommend getting one of their Best Of compilations.

Least favourite boss fights.
I nominate the battles against the Guild Wars bosses Abaddon and Cyndr the Mountain Heart. They wail on you until you meet conditions to make them vulnerable and helpless at which point you can wail on them … at least until they inexplicably become invulnerable again and begin wailing on you (again).

Budget lightbox. [via]
(See also.)

21 years of Alex Ferguson.
As seen by 21 of his players past and present.

We live in confusing times.
Soon, we will all need to rely on the Crocodile Dundee method.