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Okay, so how do you know which ones are the king and queen and pawn and so forth? Even if you don’t play chess, this is still the coolest chess set EVER.

I found these cool chess pieces over at Lively Ivy, aka Erin “The Ivy” Robinson. Erin is well known (famous really) for her adventure games, humorous comics and wacky antics. Now, I’m not sure if she herself made the chess pieces, but I do know she made some killer penguins with clay and you just can’t go wrong with killer penguins.

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Checkmate

Now, as many of you know, I love the Ultima series of games. Whether it be the individual desktop games or the grandly fantastic Ultima Online, I have played them all. Well, maybe not “all” but I have played a lot of them. The man behind the game, Richard Garriott, had an “incident”, shall we say. Apparently one of his properties in Austin, Texas was broken in to and burglarized. Sounds fun, doesn’t it? Well, when Garriott found out about the burglary, he was hesitant about going to police about the burglary, but he found a clue. A big clue. Apparently the would be burglars left a digital camera with their very charming images on it. Some of these picture showed the very things that were stolen from Garriott’s property, which was about $5,000 worth of alcohol. If it were me, I’d kill some beeyotches. No one bettah mess with my booze.

This is what the great Garriott had to say about the entire thing:

We we’re joking to ourselves about tomorrow morning, when they wake up with a hangover, they’re going to wonder where that camera is,” he said. “This is one of those Darwin-style kind of awards, where people leave the self-incriminating evidence behind at the scene.

So, tell me… have you seen these kids? If you have, you may just receive a $1,000 reward. Good for you.

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Austin, Texas: Where Hilarity Insues