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In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, The Swedish Chef, Animal, and Beaker from The Muppets perform Danny Boy for your enjoyment. 🙂

Earlier this week Gary Gygax, the co-creator of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, died at the age of 69 of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Heartfelt tributes proliferated across the Interweb swiftly; Fimoculous did a good job collecting some popular sites’ responses. One of my favorites was a very cool interview with Gygax from 2003 that Boing Boing Gadgets reposted.

I was first exposed to D&D back in elementary school, and although I tried to get into it, creating and equipping characters with the help of my class’ “dungeon master,” I never really played through an actual campaign. However, I’ve since played many a computer-based role-playing game that owed its existence to the influence of Gygax’s creation, and I can say that I’ve enjoyed most of them immensely. It’s been quite a while since I’ve immersed myself in games like that; maybe it’s time again…

Gary Gygax’s influence over many of us is huge. He will definitely be missed, but there is no doubt that his legacy will live on. I’ll leave you with a particularly poignant comic from xkcd:

I love this Indian version of Guns N’ Roses’ Sweet Child O’ Mine, apparently done as a commercial for Channel V.

This image of the Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is pretty cool…

Food Fight is:

an abridged history of war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Watch as traditional comestibles slug it out for world domination in this chronologically re-enacted smorgasbord of aggression.

You have to see this one… 🙂

A History of Evil (YouTube video) is an interesting short film…

~amoebabloke’s antique d2 project 8 is pretty damn cool…

The YouTube video People in Order is:

part of a series of short films that assembles the people of Britain in a given order. In just 3 minutes, we meet 100 different people who are arranged according to their age, starting from age 1.

For those of you that frequent Google News and haven’t customized it yet, you should, as there is a new feature entitled Google Local News. It allows you to input your location of choice and then adds a news section tailored to that region. Pretty cool…

For those of you that are (like me) fans of the movie Lost In Translation, you were probably left wondering what Bob Harris (Bill Murray) whispered to Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) at the end of the movie. Well, wonder no more. Someone has digitally massaged the dialogue in that scene to the point where you can hear what he said. Check out the YouTube video here, unless you’d like to leave it to your imagination. I was quite torn and almost didn’t listen, but in the end I relented and don’t think it’s too much of a spoiler…