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Recycling operation: I’ve put together 12 of my creations, with fun Western movie quotes and anniversaries from Old West events in this calendar for year 2012. All images were previously featured in this site or in BallerBude’s one.

A preview:

Take the calendar here.

It’s a PDF apt to be printed at home in the simplest possible way. Paper size: A4, resolution: 300 dpi. It has not been assembled for binding, nor for typography. For best result, I suggest to print on photographic paper.

1st warning! The file is huge (around 50 MB).

2nd warning! If you don’t want to waste ink and paper, print a single page and look at result. If you are satisfied print more.

Credits:

• For help: *LAME Clan, Baller Bude.
• For historical dates and Israeli holiday dates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_American_Old_West, *LAME* Greyman, *LAME* SAPE, and *LAME* Mope.
• Movie quotes from: A Fistful of Dollars, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Duck You Sucker, The Outlaw Josey Wales, True Grit.

Hey lamer’s don’t forget this evening same  place same hour.

Choose your maps!

my maps:
Tijuana and Station

Since some of us are designers and the rest of us seems to enjoy a little design post.
Here comes another one.
Withe Adobe Kuler, an online tool for making color schemes, I prepared two color schemes.
In Kuler, you can upload a picture and create a nice theme out of it.
First one is based on the SG theme, the menu you get when starting up the game

Second one is based on the theme on this site:

Now comes the fun part for designers. Go to SG theme here and Lame Theme here. If you don’t have a login, you can’t download the swatches, registration is free. If you do have a adobe ID, you can download the theme as a swatch library that you can add into your Illustrator or Indesign. It’s a .ASE library, I’m not sure Linux vectorprograms will recognize it. But if they don’t, you can look up the value of the swatches and copy them into your software.

Have fun, hope to see someone using them in a picture sometime…;)
Cheers

Our neologism “lamerick“ (a mix of lame and limerick) officially enters in Urban Dictionary … [Mugs, T-shirts, Mousepads, Magnets available] 🙂

But what is Urban Dictionary anyway?

When you start playing online games, one of the first problems you have to solve is understanding what others are saying in game chat.

In a virtual world where people from all regions and dialects come together and communicate in real time with everyone else, it should be no surprise that the language used in these cyber realms takes on qualities of its own.

gg, bb, cu, cya, omg, afk, lame, noob, cheat, pwned, lol, brb, n1, gn, thx, ty, ns, lag, ping, bot, camper, kick, spec, wtf, idk, k, np, …

Hmm…, for me it wasn’t easy at all, until someone pointed me to Urban Dictionary.

Urban Dictionary is a web-based dictionary of slang words and phrases, which contains over 10 million definitions. Submissions are regulated by volunteer editors and rated by site visitors. Most words have multiple definitions, usage examples, and tags. Many examples are funny, though frequently gross.

[BTW, the image above is an accurate “Wordle“ of the words I used more frequently in BallerBude game chat, during the 6 months when I was admin. Based on BB logs].

Just a reminder: Thursday’s Clan Deathmatch is coming. I will not play this week, but I’ll try to be with you anyway to take screenshots and laugh at your jokes.

Vote for maps in comments, please.