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Wil Wheaton has drawn my attention the the fact that one may legally purchase and download high quality PDF’s of all the original basic D&D rule books. The PDF’s are only four bucks each.

It looks likely that Mickey is in the public domain, contrary to claims made by Disney:

Brown went searching for flawed formalities — and found one. It was on the title card at the beginning of a “Steamboat Willie” cartoon that had just been rereleased on a 1993 LaserDisc honoring Mickey’s 65th birthday. [. . .] The key was location of the word “copyright” in relation to the name “Walt Disney.” There were two other names listed in between — Cinephone and Disney’s top studio artist, Ub Iwerks. Arguably, any one of the three could have claimed ownership, thereby nullifying anyone’s claim under arcane rules of the Copyright Act of 1909.

Check-out this interview with Alan Moore, in which the Wizard of Northampton reveals some nuts-and-bolts details of his writing process.

All three acts of Dr. Horrible are available now, but they’re only free to watch until July 20th.

In the release notes for the latest World of Warcraft patch:

Haris Pilton has launched a new line of bags and jewelry. Check her out in the World’s End Tavern!

It’s a joke, right? Right?

I have only just discovered that Joss Whedon (of Buffy and Firefly fame) will be launching a web series called Dr. Horrible. Excellent. The trailer is available now, and the first episode premiers tomorrow.