If billytea is still around - who would win in a fight between a Satanic leaf-tailed gecko and a Jesus lizard?

Oh my....

Reaver Bait: Spaceship Serenity Costume [Cosplay]

It’s no Death Star costume, but this Serenity costume–parading everyone’s favorite Firefly-class spaceship through DragonCon–is no less ingenious.

Reaver Bait: Spaceship Serenity Costume [Cosplay]

That would be a friend of mine (and amyth's and Calli's). FYI, the ship's engines light up and it has detachable shuttles.

She and her sister have also created a giant Jayne hat, Kaylee's dress, and giant Hands of Blue (one of which doubled as a Michael Jackson glove in a mass Thriller dance at Dragoncon this year.

I'll see if I can find links.

a Satanic leaf-tailed gecko and a Jesus lizard

The gecko would convince everyone to bet on it, then throw the fight because it bet on the Jesus lizard.

Here's Jayne's hat: [link]

And Hands of Blue: [link]

Video of Thriller dance, Giant Gloved Hand @ 3:13:

[link]

Here's Jayne's hat: [link]

Cunning!

smonster, those are great! Hee. I love the giant Jayne hat, as I now roll my eyes at the million Jayne hats I see at cons. At least that version is clever.

Radical Militant Librarian tee

Just ran into a Norwegian librarian at Internet Librarian International in London wearing this killer tee-shirt, created in protest of the PATRIOT Act's provision to force librarians to reveal which books their patrons were checking out. The Latin translates as "We know what you read, and we're not saying."

I believe many libraries have stopped keeping records of what patrons have checked out to circumvent the government asking for said records. "What records? Our hard drive crashed last week, and we decided that keeping those records was too much of a strain on our computers. If you wanted to up our funding so we can upgrade the systems, now . . ."

Um... how could anyone think this was a good idea?

Linda Brown, Ohio Woman, Pretends To Win Lottery, Causes Riot At Store

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax.

Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said.

Linda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an hours-long shopping spree that began when she hired a stretch Hummer limousine to drop her off at a Burlington Coat Factory store, police Sgt. Lt. Michael Deakins said. Brown walked to a cash register and loudly announced she had won the lottery and would pay for each person's merchandise up to $500, he said.

"Well, of course, people like to hear that," Deakins said. "Apparently they were in line calling relatives who were not at the store and told them to come."

People flooded the registers as cashiers began ringing up purchase after purchase, but Brown had not yet paid the bill, Deakins said. At least 500 people filled the aisles and another 1,000 were outside trying to get in, he said.

"She was telling people she won $1.5 million," Deakins said. "But it ends up she didn't win anything. She had no money to pay for anything."