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Good for Huck Gee. Doesn’t mean I’ll buy his expensive stuff but it’s good =
to see someone start sticking it to the flippers.

Did you read Jeremy’s great piece “Flipping on eBay is Ruining The Scene”. Well if you didn’t go do so now. We’ve all been there. There’s something you want, desire, lust after and just plan need. Someone else has a quicker DSL connection than you, has a faster trigger finger, or just, well, remembered about the sale of that amazing extremely limited edition toy. Next thing you know it’s up on eBay for twice the price by a reseller. Yeah, these flippers are just using toys like a commodity like silver, gold or oil. Buy low and sell high.

But Huck Gee cares about his true fans and has put into effect a new sales policy banning aggressive flippers from his limited edition custom auctions! (read the full sales policy below or here) Let’s hear for the Huck Man!

NEW SALES POLICY:  We realize that a lot of folks have been getting quite frustrated in their attempt to get their hands on Huck’s customs. Partly due to the artwork’s limited nature, but secondly due to too many aggressive resellers jumping into the fray. We do not have anything against other people making secondary market money off of Huck’s creations but there is a problem when aggressive resellers get between Huck and his true fans and die-hard collectors. So as of today, we are instrumenting a new sales policy: Any Ebay buyer/seller found to be aggressively reselling Huck’s limited customs will be banned from any and all future auctions.

We have been tracking some of these folks for a while now, we already know who most of them are and we will be adding them and any future resellers to the ban list as we discover them. We are aware some of these sellers are attempting to disguise their behavior by using more than one Ebay account to buy/sell, so we have been preemptively tracking all the custom ’s as we sell them. Going forward we will be banning both the buyer and the reseller of any custom we find being aggressively resold at the detriment of Huck’s die-hard fans and collectors. Also, any folks reselling customs on Ebay, and found to be hiding/covering the custom figure’s in their auction’s photos/description, will also be assumed to be an aggressive reseller and will also be banned from all future sales.

So the new Bloc Party album is out.

What you didn’t know about it?

Don’t feel bad, most people probably didn’t since they gave about 72hrs notice of it’s impending arrival. I totally appreciate the fact that a band is willing to release an album as soon as it’s done.

This is probably my fav track of the whole thing: One Month Off

$10 bucks and it’s has NO DRM or get the CD in October with some extra tracks.

Though to be fair, it took a Service Pack and a faster machine for me to come to this conclusion. Even better (with some caveats) is Windows Server 2008 configured as a workstation.

So will I make my MBP exclusively a Windows machine? No, but I won’t be afraid of booting into Windows anymore.

Jay Smooth breaks it down

Madvillain - Boulder Holder from Madvillainy 2 - The Madlib Remix. Get the album here, worth every bit of the 999 cents.

For some reason on my bike ride this morning my iPod decided it was going to be one of those slightly chilled out days. I don’t know why, everything else leading up to today would suggest otherwise. Maybe it was my iPods way of saying chillax and hang out.

Chillax Mix

1. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
2. The Bravery - Believe
3. Ghost In the Water - A Nightmare
4. The Cansecos - Raised By Wolves (Fantastic Mr. Fox Remix)
5. The Herbalizer - You’re not all that
6. Born Ruffians - Baddnkadonkey
7. Kaskade - I Remember
8. Lamb - Gabriel (Nellee Hooper Mix)

So I got word that I’ll be attending PDC this year which I’m quite psych’d about. Hit me up if you’ll be there.

Comes the news that if you pre-order (I most definitely will be) you get a few extra incentives. Included in those incentives is this most awesome Kratos downloadable costume.

Check out the other incentives on Playstation.Blog

via [Boston Blue Eyes Blog]

Couple tracks to listen to over the weekend.

• One Day as a Lion - Wild International
• Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me
• Adele - Cold Shoulder (Basement Jaxx Remix)
• 2 Skinnee J’s - 3 Minutes
• Re-Fix The Gadget
• The Virgins - Rich Girls
• Plasticman - Walk In The Car Park

I’d actually like to know what was on the iPod please. Also, The Dark Knight will rock your face into the other dimension. Go see it.

Pretty hot little app the have going here. Though it did crash on me once so far.

Been busy the past few days working on my CIPP/G certification at work. It’s been sometime since I’ve had to actually study for something and alas, I’m pretty sure that I failed it.

Both tests. Though I won’t really know for another few weeks. I even had to fill out the test questions on one of those #2 pencil only-fill-in-the-bubble tests. Very high school feeling.

Good thing the company is going to have another test taking event in August so I can try again. The training lady assured us that virtually ‘everyone‘ passes it the second time. We’ll see.