Nike 78 gallery now online (link roundup)

Most of the entries in the Nike 78 project I previously mentioned have now been posted here.

And a few more links:

1. Interview with Gizmodo's Brian Lam.

2. Starship viewing platform desktop wallpaper. Via.

3. Orlando forward Mickael Pietrus won a $17,000 bet by not cutting his hair all season.

*Previously: If Giger designed shoes for Nike.

*Buy Nike posters at eBay.

Assassin's Creed fan art (link roundup)

Assassin's Creed fan art by DarkSabata, who is currently accepting commissions, as described on the right column of this page.

And a few more links:

1. Even though the city has grown by one million people, water use in Los Angeles has dropped to 1979 levels. Perversely, we were so good at conserving water, that it caused the city's pipes to explode.

2. StarCraft Cheating Scandal Rocks South Korea. Via these sites.

3. Karen Traviss talks about her now job writing Gears of War stories. (A real loss for the Star Wars universe. Her Legacy of the Force novels were dramatically better then the books in the series written by other authors.)

*Previously: Altair with a rifle.

*Buy Starcraft toys at eBay.

Comic art charity auction (link roundup)

J.H. Williams III and others (Adam West drew Catwoman) contributed artwork to help Crusaid fight AIDS. It's all up for bid at eBay.

And a few more links:

1. "During a year-long gambling binge at the Caesars Palace and Rio casinos in 2007, Terrance Watanabe managed to lose nearly $127 million." He's now suing the casino.

2. 56" tall Dog Faced Boy doll.

3. Victorian X-Men = the Paranatural Persons League.

*Previously: Tangiers Hotel and Casino t-shirt.

*Buy circus poster collections at Amazon.

If Hello Kitty had a mech (link roundup)

Girly Lego Mech by Dave Stirling. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Maybe the Spider-Man musical is not dead? Via.

2. Phone survey says 40% of sports reporters gamble on sports. Via.

3. Sprint is selling dramatically fewer Pres than predicted. Via.

*Previously: Lego Mech with extra armor.

*Buy Julie Taymor art books at Amazon.

How Vegas makes its money

Whales, in the language of Las Vegas, are, Adelson says, those who can win or lose $3 million in one stay. There are only a few thousand whales in the world, but they are multiplying fast in China -- thank you, the People's Republic. Adelson says that when 60,000 people a day are gambling at Macao's Venetian, 40 percent of the casino's revenues come from 59,700 of them, and 60 percent from 300 others, probably including three to eight whales. In the Venetian here, 20 percent of the gamblers provide 80 percent of the revenues.

Link.