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Monday, April 2nd, 2012Osprey Publishing’s awesome new Monopoly set
Sunday, April 1st, 2012This is the Osprey Monopoly you have heard about complete with description. (Now if they’d just do a version of Risk or Stratego.)
For nearly the last two years, we’ve kept the development of Osprey Monopoly a closely guarded secret, but we just can’t contain the excitement any longer!
Coming later this year, we’ll be releasing a limited-edition run of 1,000 sets. Along with the our exclusive Osprey board, featuring some of our greatest books, you also get our special decks of ‘Chance’ and ‘Ammo Chest’ cards, plastic bunker and fortress pieces to fortify your properties, and a set of our metal game tokens (there’s no hat, but there is a Humvee!).
While the game mostly follows the traditional Monopoly rules of moving around the board, buying properties and building on them, we have included a few special rules that make for a slightly more ‘explosive’ game. But I don’t want to give too much away.
Keep your eye on the blog for a chance to pre-order this limited-edition set, and be the envy of all your friends.
www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/Osprey_Monopoly
This article appeared first on Soldier Systems Daily.
New NatGeo show that blows Shark Week away
Sunday, April 1st, 2012Wicked Tuna. That’s right, Wicked Tuna. It’s going to be epic. Watch the video preview.
Plague Town: Getting the zombies right
Thursday, March 29th, 2012Dana Fredsti has written a zombiepocalypse novel. She wanted to get it right.
Tactical Fanboy: Check out "Plague Town" on Under the Radar
“..So I enlisted (pun intended) expert help. Rather than try and explain the type of things I asked, here’s a good example of an actual question sent to Staff Sergeant Phillip McSorley (who also read several scenes for me to check for accuracy and realism): Oh Military Expert Person! I am writing a scene where a group of soldiers are going to a mountain rest stop to clean it (zombies, doncha know). It’s from the perspective of one guy, a lieutenant, and I have no idea of what tactics they’d use… who goes in first, do they really say things like “Charlie Tango Donut, over!” … Do they send in pairs? I’m thinking this is a small group (would there be a specific number?) and again, while it’s military, they don’t have to be specifically army or marine or air force as their specific job is taking care of zombie outbreaks. And yes, I realize this sounds totally lame… but I swear the book isn’t!”
If you like zombies and you like Army of Darkness chances are you’re going to like Plague Town.
Two Slave Coasts
Thursday, March 29th, 2012Check this out, it’s an interesting look at things largely forgotten today.
“On two side of the Atlantic ocean, there stand two reminders – one well-known, the other not – of one of the darkest periods of human history: the slave trade. Elmina Fort in Ghana is where millions slaves were held in captivity before being shipped off to the Americas; on the other side of the ocean, some 5443 kilometres away,there is a rocky trail built by slaves that leads away from a quiet cove on Brazil’s Ilha Grande, where slave ships landed. Mark Eveleigh takes a look into their dark past, and how they stand today…”
Awesome photography work looking into other worlds
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012Jason Florio was one of the last photographers to photograph Ahmed Shad Massoud, the anti-Taliban “Lion of Panjshir” (شیر پنجشیر) in August 2001 before Massoud was assassinated b Al Qaeda on September 9TH 2001. He was at the foot of the World Trade Center on September 11TH as it came down. He’s taken incredible photos around the world. One of his more recent stories was a a 930 klick expedition at the foot of The Gambia, West Africa, to produce a series of portraits of a African chiefs. He was given a fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society in London for that work. Visit his website to check out Jason Florio’s on-line gallery.
This is a video collection of some of that work.
Gratuitous hot gamer chick
Monday, March 26th, 2012Hat tip to 1MOA Solutions! Looks like she even has her finger forward of the trigger guard, not that I was looking at her fingers.
Gratuitous hot girl with gun
Friday, March 23rd, 2012Ammo again, but that’s not a Bad Thing.
Trail running glove evaluation from Predator Intelligence
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012Here’s an interesting glove review from Predator Intelligence. I thought it was worth sharing, though I’m not entirely sure I trust anyone who willingly runs recreationally. If a bear or a Lambent-infected sociopath is chasing you with a chainsaw. (A bear with a chainsaw is terrifying: true story.)
Mechanix M-Pact Trail Fail Test
Have picked up trail running, a few add hazards came into play from down hill sprinting. After taking a fall and shredding my hand in some small gravel, I thought a little hand protection may suit me well, especially since my natural reaction was to do a slide hands first after going air born. Sure the elbows and knees get in the way along the way of a good splash in the dirt, but those scrapes were rather minor and less a hindrance for daily activities.
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| Mechanix M-PACT Fingerless After Shot |
After gathering some recommendations and a quick look around online I settled on Mechanix M-PACT gloves. I gave them a call just to get a little background and suggestion. I liked the fingerless version since it gets quite hot on the mountains of Phoenix and figured a bit of venting would help in keeping my hands too sweaty. The sales rep told me otherwise and suggested the entire glove for full protection. Being a pain in the ass, you can see here that I went with my initial inclination.
The padding on the palm and rubber top give a lot of protection, especially if you have big hands and tend to scrape your knuckles when reaching into top spaces. In my case I was prone to smacking my swinging knuckles into the mountains rock face or pushing off it when coming around a tight curve in the trail. The all around protection worked great without a problem. I had been meaning to do a review on the gloves since they turned out to fit great and form to the hand well. I figured I would wait till I had a good fall to see how things turned out and it only took about 4 months before I tripped on a down hill sprint yesterday and had a good slide into some good sized rocks.
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| Hands Sans Glove After Fall |
Needless to say the sales rep was right in the assumption to have full finger protection. Some decent sized rocks stopped my downward momentum which I caught with my left shoulder and right hand. For some reason I always have a good laugh a these events, while being pissed that I lost focus enough to not pick up my feet. Then you have to do a quick damage assessment to see if there is any blood involved. Not too shabby with a few scrapes on side of my left leg and elbow, along with a bruised shoulder. I decided to finish the run to get cleaned up fast before the adrenaline wore off and avoid any infection from possible dog or horse excrement possible ground into the dirt, which is a common site on my runs of these trails. Half way down I felt the blood dripping down my thumb realizing the tip hand been ripped back and impacted with some dirt or who knows what.
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| M-PACT Gloves Ready to Go |
The gloves were certainly none the worse for wear. They definitely saved my palm which you can see in the second photo. Its a bit tender now, but no bruising to speak of. I cleaned out the thumb and bandaged it up, but I am pretty sure this would not have been an issue or would have been saved from scraping out dirt with a subsequent alcohol bath had I listened to the experts. Obviously this is no tragic event and probably will happen a few more times in the future, but the gloves performed their function and I can now dole out some more cash on gloves to make up for being pig headed.
Gratuitous hot chick with gun
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012Love this one, though it’s not a gun. Just ammo. Plus there’s helicopters. Who doesn’t like boobs, guns and helicopters?
Tagger in AUSCAM
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012Sorry to say some truly incredible artwork has been painted over in many places downrange (I understand why, but the loss of some of that art is a shame). If you don’t follow Unconventional Military Art you should.
Gratuitous hot girl with gun
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012Here’s something more than your typical hot girl with a gun. Michelle Viscusi. Top Shots Season Four. Nom nom nom.
Pictures courtesy of Axium Photography.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day Hangover
Sunday, March 18th, 2012
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
ALCON: Happy St. Patrick’s Day Weekend
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Go Tell the Spartans
Friday, March 16th, 2012I’m a huge fan of BattleComp. I’m one of the many who’ve suffered the ‘Startled BattleComp Tourette’s Syndrome’ on the range the first time I used one.
Anyway, this photo is courtesy of Kevin Mah of BattleComp. I thought it would make a cool poster.
Just sayin’
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012Just sayin’.
Gratuitous hot girl with gun
Monday, March 12th, 2012Since tattoos aren’t for everyone.
EarPeace
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
EarPeace earplugs are made from hypoallergenic silicone and come in three colors: brown, white, and tan. This allows for discrete and highly-functional ear protection. Additionally, EarPeace earplugs feature a high-fidelity attenuation filter, which allows for a small amount of unobstructed sound to slip through. Each EarPeace set comes with an Aluminum storage tube and 3 earplugs.
You can buy them at EarPeace.com
Mass Effect 3: the LITERAL trailer
Saturday, March 10th, 2012Anyone else like Tobuscus?
He loves his ho…
Friday, March 9th, 2012On a highway in SW Oklahoma, between Ft. Sill and Altus AFB, there occasionally roams a pickup truck that once said I Love My Horse on the window. It doesn’t anymore, which makes the current message must more entertaining.
This also has nothing to do with Kony.
Jimmy Kimmel: the Movie
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012The only problem with this is that’s it’s not a real feature length film. Great acting, superb special effects, phenomenal directing…
Or, maybe not. It’s funny as hell though.
