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The web companion to the monthly magazine Shooting Illustrated.

Even I am not that big of a nerd to wear this… (When they sell the full suit of mail, with gloves, boots, helmet, sword, belt, and shield, for a couple hundred, then maybe we’ll talk.)

“Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.”

“Give to charity just by searching the Internet.” Powered by Yahoo!, there are two boxes; one for your search term, one for the charity you wish to support with that search. You search, money’s donated. I learned of this through Prison Fellowship.

And coming right on the heels of the Terraminds Twitter search mentioned yesterday, Twitter announces you can now search people profiles from any Twitter page.

A search engine for Twitter, letting you search in updates, or for users.

Love the Beatles? Love Star Wars? Then you’ll love this cultural mashup of the Star Wars characters posed as if on the album cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Official Star Wars poker chips, two casino-quality card decks, a Death Star dealer button, and, of course, a Star Wars branded case: which contains LEDs to light up the chips lightsaber-style. Sweetheart, take note, this is going on the wishlist…

As Chris Messina twittered, “Best use of Web 2.0 shwag evar.”

It’s in German, but it’s pretty easy to figure the table out. You can see what fonts are used by corporations for their logos and brands. Typophiles, rejoice.

Orson Scott Card on Michael Mann (not the director/producer) cooking the books to prove humanity’s responsible for global warming instead of being, you know, honest with his algorithms and data.

I wouldn’t roll as a pirate, but I like this shirt.

Of course I find out I’ve had pro baseball within five miles of my house for the past year just as the season ends.

Even though I don’t own a console system, I’ve always enjoyed the Star Wars LEGO games. Now the circle of the Lucasfilm movie family on LEGO is complete.

Eric Blair’s AppleScript bundle for sending the current post in NetNewsWire in plain text via email in Mailsmith, Entourage, or Apple’s Mail. Very handy.

1.78 million .Mac subscribers?!? As Frank Barone would say, “Holy crap!” If only the old eWorld could’ve had so many…

Guy Kawasaki got a tour of the Trek barn, and gives a mini-history of the company, as well as a photo tour of the Lance Armstrong History Wall. Fascinating stuff. I’m a proud Trek bike owner myself.

This is my new bike, which I got to ride a sum total of two times before I broke my foot in a non-cycling incident. Mine’s in the black and anthracite.

I’ve always wanted to throw myself in to a Kurosawa film fest.

“[A] community website for writers of all descriptions to post their work and receive feedback. In return it is hoped they will cast their eye over other people’s work and give their thoughts.”

Joe Cochrane spent time embedded with the U.S. Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 2 in Iraq.

Amazing new .45 ACP submachine gun featuring cutting-edge technology.

I’ve long admired the XD series of pistols, and this latest, the compact .45, has vaulted to the top of my XD wishlist.