Plastic shrapnel: If you want your kids to grow up to become international arms dealers, you can start them early with BrickArms. Catering to armed-conflict needs of the worldwide community of adult LEGO fanatics, BrickArms is the manufacturer of custom military LEGO minifigs, the little yellow guys whose typical occupations include knights and spacemen, but now encompass WWII Nazi grenadiers and Kalashnikov-toting jihadis. You can also order detailed LEGO-sized guns and grenades to fit perfectly in those little yellow semi-circle hands at brickarms.com.
I’m Your Man: Guy Goma was a Congolese IT manager innocently waiting for a job interview at the BBC in London when he was mistaken for tech journalist Guy Kewney and whisked into a studio for a live interview about iTunes, the Beatles and music downloading. He fared remarkably well and has become a bit of a celebrity—there’s even a movie in the works. Get the whole story at www.guygoma.com.
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