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Some interesting LEGO links:
The LEGO User's Group Network - started as an offshoot of the rec.toys.lego newsgroup, now the definitive source for info and discussion.

The Brickshelf has a gallery of all sorts of stuff people have done, as well as scans of old catalogs and building instructions (you threw those away, didn't you).

I sorta miss my LEGO sometimes, until I see new LEGO in the store - yech. For the most part, they've really gone downhill (the Sante Fe train engine excepted). Plus, I've got other expensive hobbies - 1/32 slot cars, bicycles, 'puters....

That harpsicord is pretty wack, tho.

Later,
DoC

Brickshelf and Geekshelf both use MySQL as the backend for their galleries. Together they serve about ~200,000 gallery pages per day (over 500,000 in a recent slashdotting). It is always _super_ fast, even during the slashdot effect (locally -- bandwidth limitations still have an effect for remote users). It's very reliable too, db server uptime is 111 days. The mysqld process has been running since Aug. 12. Since then there have been over 8,000,000 connections to the db. It's rock solid.

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just pics: crane pics

And some Star Wars.

Did the guy who made this really buy SIX Darth Maul sets just so that he could make his little troop of Uruk-Hai?

I mean having that kind of time to spare is one thing, but it's obvious that he didn't just construct this out of bricks he had lying around. Those Star Wars sets are expensive.

is that RMS?

There are about a dozen links on the homepage
for browsing through folders. Try "Recent Gallery Uploads".
New uploads are held for moderation (unfortunate but necessary). Once moderated, any visitor can
browse the folder. Even when not yet moderated,
the files are viewable to the owner, and deep-linking works all the time (moderated or not).

It is a spinoff of Brickshelf. Brickshelf has a LEGO only gallery. On Geekshelf, anything "geeky" is on-topic.

For those folks who have never played with Lego, it's never too late to start, and LDraw's resources allow one to do so for virtually no cost. I encourage Lego newbies to start their journey by looking for inspirational Lego galleries much like the one posted in this article. (It's interesting, though, to see how large the percentage of computer graphics-only galleries are starting to appear on the Web.) Here are a few of my favorite links:

• El Lutzo's site has photos of real creations, images of virtual creations, and pictures from a tour of Legoland.
• A lighthouse and a castle. Simple but cool.
• Fantek galleries. Interesting. Be warned, though, the gallery images are very large files.
• DMS personal gallery. DMS is a Linux kernel developer, and the gallery includes a Lego Tux!
• Brickshelf, one of the largest photo archives on the web.

try here

...Create something incredibly cool and lose your site. Thanks to thesolo for mirroring a couple of pix - this thing is AMAZING. Two weeks ago I sold my collection of 60,000+ LEGO bricks (re-entering my "dark ages"), but I never managed to do anything that cool with them. I did get around to a 100 square foot train layout with pneumatically powered switches, compressor, and regulator (all LEGO) but this puts my stuff to shame.

For those who have been out of LEGO for a while (15+ years), there is some pretty amazing stuff out there now. Mindstorms is quite cool, some of the larger Technic sets are amazing, and LEGO seems to be catering toward its growing Train fans by releasing neat sets like the Sante Fe Super Chief. On the other hand, unfortunately, they are also licensing Harry Potter and Star Wars. Feh.

Some other links to Slas^H^H^H^Hview are:
Lego Castles
The Pacific Northwest LEGO Train Club
the Brickshelf Gallery
The LEGO Users Group Network

Hopefully the traffic'll die down soon so I can see the rest of Amy's site. Nice work, Ms. Hughes, and may your cat rest in peace.

DoC

"...the little lego men look really cool and all, but where's the creativity? Unless you have serious cash to drop on the Mindstorms, the sets are so specialized that you can only make one thing out of them."

I'm 23, have a 172 IQ, and simply love LEGOs. Modeling complex structures with those wonderful ABS bricks is one of my very favorite pastimes.

If you don't like toys, I pity you. Perhaps you're just in that 14-18 year old or so range where you think toys are stupid... Don't worry, if you've got enough brain power, you'll grow out of it. :) (We Adult Fans Of LEGO -AFOLs- call it the "dark ages" - when you sell all your LEGO, or other toys for that matter, then regret it years later.)

P.S. For those interested in LEGO building products and the simply amazing things you can to with them, check out www.Lugnet.com and www.BrickShelf.com.

That's really cool! Of course it looks like they copied the color scheme from BrickShelf

• Audrey Hepburn
  
• Someone's wife, along with screenshots of the MosaicMaker app and images.
  
• And finally, the homepage for MosaicMaker.
  

Here's a Canadian Newspaper article that came out a few days ago about this. It includes some interesting information from a LEGO representative.

(the article isn't online so it's a scan)

Look at the amazingly detailed model of the Space Needle they made.

Wow!!!!

Actually, LEGO already makes those, for display outside their Outlet stores.

I don't know why people say that C is hard and has a slow to develop in. C is an easy language to code in if your mind is in the right mode. Just take a millisecond on each statement to think about what you just did with that pointer, and remember to bounds-limit everything.

For an example of a C/MySQL cgi that can stand the slashdot effect:
Brickshelf.com Gallery

You can't do anything without plans!

I don't like so-called "Futurists" who make all sorts of wild predictions about the future.
The early days of "Wired" and "Mondo 2000" magazines were full of these pundits, trying to convince us that the internet was some fabulous egalitarian anarchistic collection of like-minded individuals, that the 'net would allow virtual sex and avatars and the whole shebang. Not one of them mentioned consumer-priced broadband, or mass censorship like what's happening in Australia these days.
Mondo 2000 was particularly bad at this, saying how the online world would replace real life and everything would be a massive technohippy psychedelic wonderland where everything would be free.
Wired promised much the same thing, except that we'd all get fabulously rich selling the aforementioned wonderland.

Now, after I've brought everybody down with my ramblings, a positive note:
I've seen the LEGO 2000 catalogue, and the new X-Wing is pretty sweet! So there is hope for the future.

Pope