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Community plays Advanced Dungeons and Dragons

Here's last night's episode of Community - - they play a great game of Dungeons and Dragons.

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Link roundup

1. "Quentin Tarantino got into the spirit of Halloween by dressing as a Mexican wrestler and crashing a series of parties on a bus packed with hot women." Via.

2. Interesting interview with Sara Moulton about being fired from the Food Network. (She's pretty bitter about it.) (And she manages to emasculate her husband, too.)

3. I mentioned yesterday that Spin was giving away a Bad Religion tribute album. Well, the accompanying article, about the history of Epitaph Records is a great read. You can read the first two pages here.

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Link roundup

1. Wired interviewed Genndy Tartakovsky about Sym-Bionic Titan (which was excellent).

2. And the producers of Batman the Brave and the Bold talk about how much the toy company influences plot decisions: "The toy company wanted to see Starro as much as possible, because they were going to put a big push behind that character."

3. A restaurant in New York got a "B" and modified the sign to say "Best." Via.

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Link roundup

1. The NY Times editorial board opines that it's a good move to rename High Fructose Corn Syrup as Corn Sugar.

2. You can watch the season premier of Survivor Nicaragua online (yes, former NFL coach Jimmy Johnson is really part of the cast).

3. "The mystery Togo team that played Bahrain in an international soccer exhibition was made up of 'unidentified players and their shadowy handlers' and belonged to a 'mafia group' the country's sports minister told The Associated Press on Wednesday."

Link roundup

1. Rick Bayless says the Top Chef Masters producers really, really tried to get the competitors drunk.

2. Tyler Cowen explains why being interesting and responsible are more important values than happiness.

3. You're wasting your time stretching before running.

Link roundup

1. Slideshow of astonishingly high-calorie desserts at chain restaurants. Via.

2. Meet Larry Garrison, the guy news programs pay to feed them a steady diet of people to appear on their tabloid shows. For example, a "78-year-old retired propane inspector from Manheim, Pennsylvania, who thinks that he and his wife might have found Natalee Holloway’s remains while snorkeling off the coast of Aruba." Via.

3. The bizarre story of Dan Quayle's son. Make sure you watch the campaign ad.

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Link roundup

1. Surfers found a 10-foot-long great white shark on a beach in Australia and dragged him back into the water.

2. Mark Burnett is apparently trying to create two new talent shows: Dancing Behind Bars and Talent Behind Bars.

3. How games like Farmville take advantage of addictive behavior.

Link roundup

1. "Remember that one time Metamorpho shot lasers from an electric guitar made by a 13-year-old at a space mutant named Thunderer?"

2. Posters for Star Wars attractions such as Jabba's Palace Grill.

3. Nickelodeon keeps its broadcast schedule secret for competitive reasons. (This used to drive me nuts when my kids were young and it was extremely important to me to know when Dora and Diego would be on next.)

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Pin-Up Girl playing card project (link roundup)

Bill Pressing and Josh Cooley are putting together a deck of playing cards called Intercontinental Cuties.

And a few more links:

1. Seth Godin says if you read his blog, you're an elite.

2. 2003 interview with Dick Wolf discussing his advertising career and how he did research for Law and Order.

3. Oedipus and The Sphinx, illustrated by Andy Erekson.

*Previously: LOLcats Trading Cards.

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Leonard Nimoy in Mission: Impossible

You learn something new every day:

Following the cancellation of the original Star Trek series, Nimoy immediately joined the cast of the spy series Mission: Impossible, which was seeking a replacement for Martin Landau. Nimoy was cast as an IMF agent who was an ex-magician/ make-up expert, "The Great Paris." He played the role from 1969 to 1971, on the fourth and fifth seasons of the show. (As noted by Patrick White in The Complete Mission: Impossible Dossier, Landau had been an early choice to play Spock.)

Thanks, Wikipedia.

Here's the opening from the fifth season of Mission: Impossible, featuring Nimoy and a young Sam Elliott (turns out he wasn't born with a mustache):

Via these sites.

*Previously: How to make sunglasses that make it impossible for someone to photograph your face.

*Mission: Impossible TV seasons are about $25 at Amazon.

Television poster by James White

Colorful "Network" television poster by James White. Here's his webstore.

*Previously: Desktop wallpaper by White.

*Buy concert posters at eBay.

Victorian octopus (link roundup)

Victorian octopus with a mustache by Mike Hiscott. High-res image here, along with a not safe for work drawing.

And a few more links:

1. A cat and his bodyguards, perhaps?

2. Breastfeeding and ninjas are a surprisingly funny match.

3. Michale Crichton's pilot script for ER was 20 years old when the first episode was made. Also, the pilot was screened on cable television. People were recruited to watch it, but if you were lucky, you would have just stumbled upon it by accident. Two of the interesting factoids from this article. (And I've only ever watched a single episode.)

4. I don't think it's online anywhere but there's a "You're the next studio head" board game by Chip Wass in the March issue of Los Angeles magazine.

*Previously: The world's more like a Crichton novel every day.

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Cartoon Network vinyl toys

You can see lots of closeups of these Ben 10 and other Cartoon Network character vinyl toys, called "Noods," here. Much better shape than the Mighty Muggs.

*Previously: Ben 10 poster.

*Buy Ben 10 toys at eBay.

Lego Crab Alien (link roundup)

Lego Crab Alien by Peter Reid.

And a few more links:

1. Download a Mother Box wallpaper for the iPhone.

2. Comment and win a bunch of cool stuff from Blizzard.

3. New mall in china dedicated to fake brands such as "McDnoald’s and "Bucksstar Coffee." Via.

4. Watch every episode of The Prisoner online. Via.

*Previously: Counterfeit Superman toy set.

*Buy Jack Kirby comics at Amazon.

Craig Ferguson humiliates NBC exec Ben Silverman

The politics at the networks are far more interesting than the shows they put on tv. Here, CBS' Craig Ferguson mocks NBC exec Ben Silverman's so-disturbing-it-can't-possibly-be-real laugh: