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New Independent Lego Journal Launches
hfcs writes "Joe Meno, a Lego-junkie buddy of mine has just launched
BrickJournal, a new, independent journal for Lego fanatics, 'featuring HOWTOs, reviews, history and interviews with Lego engineers'. As mentioned over at
BoingBoing this morning, it's like 'a very, very, very specific version of Make!'." Conveniently split into two PDFs for your reading pleasure.
It's such a pain to only have to download and open one file. Getting two separate parts, and having to switch between them, is obviously so much more convenient
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Great, something more to support my addiction for wasteing time!
...the Democratic and Republican two-party Lego duopoly.
Will this finally become a place of refuge for a weary band of Lego Star Wars rebels?
After all, there are legos in physical form, and legos as game sprites.
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
Especially considering how pokey Acrobat can be when you try to open a PDF from the web. To their credit, version 7 seems to be a whole lot faster than version 4 through 6, each of which was more bulky, more cumbersome, and slower than the last.
"Conveniently split into two PDFs for your reading pleasure"
so many things wrong with this sentence....
kinda makes sense to me, especially for modem users...you can read one while getting the other...or waiting for the slashdotting to pass, either way.
Geeze. I thought that folks had gotten carried away over Star Trek and M&M collecting. ... just wait 'till we see a new meaning of the phrase "block party weekend" :-)
Get some.
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5k/sec for a 5MB file over a T1 connection...
Everything linked from /. is going to be a webpage! Shock, horror! Worse yet, every one of those pages will be *someone's* web page!
/. to link to?
There isn't even really anything to buy on this one, and it makes perfect sense. Nerds like Lego. Maybe they'll like this Lego magazine.
What exactly do you expect
unless the submissions are peer-reviewed by the board before being published. We can't just have any Tom, Dick or Mary slapping bricks together and calling themselves lego engineers!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
No no no. The plural of "Lego engineer" is "Lego engineer".
It will be difficult to top the Lego Volvo http://car.kak.net/modules.php?file=article&name=n ews&op=modload&sid=1662
Are legos recyclible? If not are there any 'green' toy building bricks made from reclaimed plastic?
What about...
- Erector
- Tinkertoys
- Lincoln Logs
- K*Nex
Hey, that would make a good poll: "Favorite building toy?"
Give me my freedom, and I'll take care of my own security, thank you.
My guess is that he means unofficial. E.g. independent from the company that produces said building blocks.
Does this mean they'll be featuring lego pr0nz??
australian project gutenberg is better than the original.
Suddenly Lego start selling boxes of cone pieces. Nothing but the cones.
Sad cases of compulsive behaviour, such as Eric who has dragged his unsuspecting sister, Dorothy into the despicable cult.
The cult recently opened one of their "temples" in California (of course). They have many local churches.
Like the Scientologists who have their "e-meter", these lego freaks have their or psuedo-technological props. They even have an mystic Oracle that you can ask questions on the internet. And just like the leader of the Scientologists, their leaders aspire to be JRR Tolkien. Not only that, these foul fiends have the temerity to rewrite the Bible.
And they are Holocaust revisionists, too boot
- Exhibit A - one of their foul leaders proudly displays their trumped up "evidence"
- Exhibit B
- Exhibit C
- Exhibit D
- Exhibit E
- Exhibit F
Much like the French, they have their own version of cinema, including a thriving, depraved pr0n industry.They worship strange, vile gods. And are building machines to take over the world.
As for 'independent' - I doubt it. The website publishing the magazine is the only site granted permission by The LEGO Group to use 'LEGO' in it's domain name, and it has a TLG employee on its board.
bah
pretenders to the throne that is LEGO
May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. RAmen.
I just had to share this with everyone on /. as everyone else I tell this to seems to make them chuckle...
My husband and I were working over the summer at Penn State and we were living in the crappy sublet right on the main street. It had no AC so we used fans the is sucked in some of the worst street grime you can imagine. So, one evening I came home from work to see him sitting on the floor with a whole little set-up - bowls of water, lots of paper towls, a toothbrush - and he had taken apart all of his LEGO things, washed each one piece by piece and put them back together.
He won't do the dishes, but he will wash his LEGO's. This mag is made for him, the Adult Fan of LEGO (AFOL)!
But I wish they hadn't built their web server with legos. Sometimes, making things out of legos is (gasp) not practical. :(
A guy walks into a bar... well, I forgot the joke, but the punchline is that he's an alcoholic.
in my day you only had simple blocks and no figures and no wheels and it was so much more fun and kids these days get whole blocks already in the shape of a car and its all about Star Wars and Harry Potter and not about building and blah blah blah.... and even though i could easily look online or go to the store to see that basic sets and creative sets are still available or remember that minifigs and specialty pieces have been around for 20 years, i'm still going to just spout garbage and complain on slashdot... oh, and Bill Gates sucks
there, did i cover all the bases?
May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. RAmen.
In Soviet Russia Lego pieces build you!
what is the deal with people who like legos? it is like they missed a stage of their childhood or something.
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No way, Erector is hardcore with metal and stuff, not a bunch of kiddie-colored plastic bricks. Good luck drawing blood with a LEGO kit. Pinch a finger, maybe.
I wonder if it will review those crazy figures that came out early in the year, like that Bill Gates figure http://www.justbrix.com/
- Duplo
- I have no hands, you insensitive clod!
- Play-doh
What? you mean your computer doesn't support PDF natively at the OS level? What kind of ancient system are you using?
Some of the guys over at the Star Trek and M&M fan clubs were still managing to get laid once in a while. A copy of this journal on their coffeetables should help alleviate that problem.
Submitted AC because of the 'funny' karma paradox.
What is the deal with people who can't spell 'lego' - it is like they missed a stage of their education or something.
I find your ideas intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I'm outa here!
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Don't let the man tell you how to spell words. fight the power.
you must visit the brick testament: the bible depicted with legos.
sure, it's the bible so it's a bit raunchy at times but each story is conveniently labeled so you'll know if it contains nudity, sexual content, violence or cursing.. whew!
http://www.thebricktestament.com/
A 5 MB PDF about Lego posted to Slashdot? No points for guessing the outcome. All four mirrors listed on the linked page are down; one appears to have pulled the file altogether. Anyone got it anywhere else? The models of the ships from 2001 look really cool.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
What they used to build it with?
I have a really elegant proof for Fermat's last theorem. If this sig was only a bit longer...
Here's the Coral cache of the PDF, got just in time ;) :
i es/brickjournal1.pdf
http://www.bzpower.com.nyud.net:8090/Imaging/stor
Cool! Amazing Toys.
'Lego' - note the capital 'L'.
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sorry, apparently LEGO freaks are uptite too.
I should have said "LEGO Blocks". But I thought that short hand colloquialisms for a popular childrens' toy would have been sufficient.
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
The answer is yes, Lego bricks are recyclable.
In 1984, I toured the Samsonite luggage factory in Ontario, which made Lego bricks under contract for the Canadian market. I got to see the grinders, the presses, and the other equipment that makes Lego.
One of the interesting things on the tour were the reject bins. Lego (unlike their cheap, plastic brick competitors) had a stringent quality control system in place. If a brick was not perfect in fit or finish, it was placed in reject bins.
Each production run was for a particular brick, and so the reject bin would be filled with, for example, the standard 2-row by 4-column red Lego blocks.
These bricks were collected, melted back into a solid blob of plastic, and then reground into a fine powder. This powder was then used to make new Lego blocks, indistinguishable in material strength and finish from those made of new plastic.
Unlike plastic pop bottles or tetrapak containers, which cannot be recycled into new bottles or containers, Lego bricks can be made into Lego bricks.
Incidentally, the Samsonite factory closed. The Lego bricks are made elsewhere nowadays.
Yes, I waited through the painful hour of downloading through coral so others could have it faster :)
Okay. I never understood why legos were always considered to be the fucking pinnacle of creativity. You have blocks of predefined size, shape and colour. Sure there are many permutations of those three attributes, but at the end of the day you still just have little blocks. How fucking exciting is that? Build a house/castle/boat/whatever, set it on the floor, and THAT'S IT! Sure sure, imagination is a big part of it. Fuck that shit though. I can imagine a goddamn paperclip is a spaceship and wave it around in the air just as much as I can imagine a few blocks are a spaceship and wave that around in the air. If I want to use my creativity and imagination then I'll get some steel and work that shit. Or some fucking playdoh or something. Legos are just so restrictive that I really don't understand why so many geeks love them. Most of us bitch about people telling us what we can and cannot do, yet so many of you love legos, which restrict creativity to certain defined patterns.
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Because I have low karma, I need pills.
You could have said "LEGO", which has the twin virtues of being shorter and correct.
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Lego, pshaw!
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"legos" is only a colloquialism in America. Slashdot is bigger than that. To most of the world, it's always been just Lego, just like how "sheep" is both plural and singular. To most people, "legos" sounds really weird.
I had a guy in my class do an oral presentation about "sheeps" once. It sounded no less glaringly wrong than "legos" (because it was no less glaringly wrong). He had an excuse though - English was his second language.
well.. sicne LEGO is Danish, I would not know that it is Plural as well as sigular.
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