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Franklin Mint Collector’s Edition Monopoly:
Monopoly has never before looked so good. From the high-quality wooden game board to the gold-plated hotels, each player will feel like a millionaire (whether they win or not!) The middle of the board is in-laid with a rich green felt, while the board itself opens up to reveal a hidden cash drawer to stash your winnings.
The pieces are one-of-a-kind, and all dipped or accented in either sterling silver or pure gold. The collector’s edition includes a bound real estate portfolio to hold the bank’s property deeds, heavy dice, custom-printed money, a cash drawer for the banker, and gold-foiled community chest and chance cards.
Berkshire Hathaway’s Diamond Edition Monopoly:
In place of the traditional Monopoly game pieces, such as the car and ship, the Berkshire version uses pieces that represent companies. They are an ice cream cone for Dairy Queen, a cowboy boot for Justin Brands, a sofa for Buffett’s furniture stores, a diamond ring for his several jewelry stores, an airplane for his aviation companies and a gecko for GEICO Auto Insurance.
Borsheim’s ~ is Boardwalk and the Nebraska Furniture Mart is Park Place.
The Community Chest and Chance cards feature the likeness of Buffett and his right hand man, Berkshire vice chairman Charlie Munger.
Four insurance units of Berkshire — GEICO, National Indemnity Insurance, General Reinsurance and U.S. Liability Insurance — take the place of the railroads in the game, while its Mid American Energy Unit replaces Electric Co. Wayne Water Systems, another Berkshire unit, take the place of Water Works.
Deluxe First Edition Monopoly:
Monopoly as it looked and felt in 1935! With a special bonus: A 16 page book that takes you back to 1935, reveals little known facts about the game and its early versions, and contains complete enhanced rules!
Features:
-Heavyweight game board with original artwork
-Original illustrated Chance and Community Chest cards (not used since 1935!)
-Original Title Deeds and property colors
-Original metal tokens
-Double pack of money
-Wooden houses and hotels
There are a lot more versions of Monopoly than you probably think there are.
Turn your marketing message into an engaging, entertaining, interactive experience with a simple “flip-of-a-thumb“.
I kind of liked “Tide Wins” and “Kyle Petty vs. “The Stagecoach”.
Ok, I like anything NASCAR.
Make toys at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles.
Start with something simple, like a laser communicator, and work your way up to a plastic hydrogen bomb.
In 4000 B.C., Babylonians played a board game that was probably the ancestor of chess and checkers. Stone yo-yos were first used in ancient Greece around 1000 B.C. Kites appeared in China around the same time, though historians speculate that they have probably been flown since before recorded history.
The 20th century saw the invention of dozens of much-loved toys as well. Still-popular board games like Tripoley, Sorry and Monopoly have been around since the 1930s, and Crayola Crayons are more than 100 years old!
Possibly the most well known of all cipher machines is the German Enigma. It became the workhorse of the German military services, used to encrypt tens of thousands of tactical messages throughout World War II. The number of mathematical permutations for every keystroke is astronomical.
Lots of pics at the Virtual Enigma Museum.
Finally, the drudgery of corporate life has been captured in a play set for adults! Bob, Joe, Ted, and Ann spend eight hours a day, five days a week, at tiny desks in tiny cubicles in a giant room packed with countless similar cubicles in a giant building filled with countless similar rooms.
Bob, Ted, Ann, and Joe each come with one 2-3/4″ posable plastic figure and all the necessary plastic parts to build a classic corporate cube: four walls, desk, chair, file cabinet, in/out box, phone, and computer. Comes with a sticker sheet of decor for your cube, complete with graphs, charts, screens for the computer and pithy office posters. Also includes a job title sticker sheet so you can create a convoluted and meaningless position for your employee (how about Level C Systems Associate? Or Senior Accounting Coordinator?). Each additional set comes with the figures noted, plus character specific accessories.
Collect all eight to build your own corporate labryinth.
Dressed for intense classroom action, this Albert Einstein Action Figure stands with a piece of chalk in his hand, poised to explain relativity or do battle with the forces of entropy. Fits in nicely with any office, cube or dorm decor and features realistic disheveled hair!
The ultimate utilitarian desktop accessory. Its vibrant red color stands out amongst the grays and beiges that consume office space. The sleek, smooth retro lines. The sheer weight. The precise, solid movement. The mechanics. The thick, dense sound as paper is conjoined…
I’m Ed Fink, and these are my 360 degree panoramas. I believe I’m the first VR photographer in the world to do full spherical (180 x 360) panoramas from a helicopter.
Get a firm grip on your chair and see for yourself how my 360 degree aerial panoramas can be used as a powerful planning tool for cities and developers or just a simple “photo map” to show off your property from a unique vantage point. Developers can show buyers or investors the scenic view from the 30th floor of their new high rise condo – before construction starts!
Check out the beautiful views of the Twin Cities – with clickable picture-in-picture.
See if you can find the awesome kid on the bridge at the Weisman Art Museum.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has been handing millions of dollars to state governments for GPS-tracking pilot projects designed to track vehicles wherever they go.
What’s raising eyebrows, though, is the increasingly popular law enforcement practice of secretly tagging Americans’ vehicles without adhering to the procedural safeguards and judicial oversight that protect the privacy of homes and telephone conversations from police abuses.
GPS tracking–even when bugs are installed by police armed with a court order–can be imperfect. One bug used by police to track convicted murderer Scott Peterson sometimes developed glitches that showed him driving at about 30,000 miles per hour.
An even more creative method of vehicle tracking arose when the FBI used such a system for audio eavesdropping. OnStar and other remote assistance products permit passengers to call an operator for help in an emergency. The FBI realized the feature could be useful for bugging a vehicle and remotely activated it to eavesdrop on what passengers were saying.
Jeff and Juhan began flying in the mid-80s. We brought our 8mm camera to the field to document our flights. Our planes wouldn’t last long and any images we captured were probably the last.
I really like their On-Board Videos. These guys know how to have fun.
