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I was so excited when I first released (URL) iPaB>. When I told my LUG-mates about it, their only criticism (in jest) was "you should make a wall view where you can see everything on one page." Grrr... I thought. So for those of you who don't like (...) (16 years ago, 25-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Draft at BrickCon 2008
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(...) Yes, indeed. The set for the BrickCon 2008 draft is set 7626, Jungle Cutter (2 URLs) draft is scheduled for 1:30pm Sunday. Short version: no double or split drafting, no more than 21 people in any draft group. Long version: The draft is a (...) (16 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce)
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| | New parts available on PAB online and Factory Palete
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Hi folks, I just thought you all might like to know that it appears that the Factory palete has been updated to include elements in "Custom Car Garage" and the PAB selection has been updated accordingly. Perhaps most notably the minifig parts (...) (16 years ago, 19-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | LDraw.org's August 2008 Model and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the August 2008 Model/Part Of The Month (MOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, Prinoth Leitwolf with Power Functions by Han Crielaard> (URL) POTM - Best Part, Electric Spybotic Brick with Trans Red Cover (Shortcut) by (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | LDraw.org's position on the copyright of rendered images
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The LDraw Steering Committee (SteerCo) has been questioned about LDraw.org's policy (as expressed by the Contributor Agreement (URL) other documentation, or tradition) on third parties capitalising on the considerable volunteer time, effort, and (...) (16 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Dirty Brickster at BrickCon 2008
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BrickCon 2008 will once again feature the popular Dirty Brickster. If you want to participate, you have to think ahead to bring and wrap something[1]. If you've done it before: worth $10+ to an AFOL. No junk. Please wrap ahead of time. If you've (...) (16 years ago, 16-Sep-08, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce)
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| | Improving the adult image of LEGO
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The other day I got another "You still play with LEGO?". I replied with: "No, I design and build models made from LEGO." That didn't seem to help much. I'd like to start a list of ideas and suggestions on how we might improve how other adults view (...) (16 years ago, 14-Sep-08, to lugnet.ambassadors, lugnet.lego, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general) !
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| | New Feature at BrickBuildr
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Just wanted to make a quick announcement about a new feature on (URL) BrickBuildr>, now you can view uploads (URL) by date>! This is a screenshot of July 2008's uploads: (URL) When you click on a day, you'll see all the photos uploaded on that given (...) (16 years ago, 12-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | LDraw.org 2008-01 Parts Library Update now available
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The 2008-01 LDraw parts library update has been now been released. This release is complete re-issue of the official library, up to and including the last (2005-01) parts update, with the primary purpose of aligning the library with the Contributor (...) (16 years ago, 10-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad) !!
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| | Tenacious Class Guided Missile Boats.
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The Tenacious Class Guided Missile Boat complements the earlier Courageous Class in that it provides long-range fire in comparison to its short-range torpedo boat counterpart. Full details: (URL) Page 1.> (URL) Page 2.> (URL) Page 3.> (URL) Here we (...) (16 years ago, 6-Sep-08, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce, lugnet.boats, FTX)
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| | Calling all Town / Train MOCs for BrickCon
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Calling all Town / Train MOCs for BrickCon ((URL) am the Town / Train coordinator and will be laying out the space. Please submit to me what you will be bringing so I can make space for it. I’ll need: •The size of your models (if you aren’t quite (...) (16 years ago, 4-Sep-08, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | LDconfig.ldr - missing colors
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Hi gang, playing around with colors I was floored by the fact that we do not have a LDraw color number or RGBs for quite a lot of LEGO colors. In addition our RGBs sometimes differ a lot from the official colors: (URL) remember the time when we were (...) (16 years ago, 29-Aug-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd)
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| | Server maintenance tonight
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Hi all, due to a disk failure on the main LUGNET server's RAID, we need to take the machine offline tonight at 0:00 CEST. Since this is not the first disk failure we are observing, the machine will undergo some testing, so there may be some (...) (16 years ago, 28-Aug-08, to lugnet.announce)
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| | My Website Store is now Open!
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(URL) It took me a couple of months, but I wanted to let everyone know that my Online Store is finally up! At the moment I'm only selling two things, my (URL) Book> "How to Build a Round Ball with Square Bricks" and an American Flag keychain, but I (...) (16 years ago, 28-Aug-08, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Less than Two Weeks Left for Advanced (Discounted) BrickCon Registration
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Advanced Registration for BrickCon 2008 ends Monday, September 8, 2008. After September 8, registration fees go to the full price of $60 (from the Advance Registration price of $50). Moreover, those who register after September 8 are not guaranteed (...) (16 years ago, 26-Aug-08, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Gizmodo minifig video contest - cool prizes
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Hi all, Gizmodo is having a contest for best video celebrating 30 years of the minifig: (URL) it out!> Prizes include new in box Galaxy Explorer and Yellow Castle!!! Roy (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | A simple but colorful sea diorama
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Hey all, For your aquarian pleasure I'm pleased to present my entry for Baylug's first East Bay meeting contest; "School." (URL) Tartar sauce, anyone? ;-P Dave S. (16 years ago, 24-Aug-08, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | How to Rotate LPub Instruction Images with ROTSTEP (a crash course for fellow Mac users)
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Now that (URL) LPub> is available for the Mac, fellow Mac users may be excited to start creating instructions for your LDraw models. If you're like me, however, you might at first be perplexed about how to tell LPub to show your model from different (...) (16 years ago, 22-Aug-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Very strange server behavior today
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Hi all, unfortunately I had to realize a disturbance in the LUGNET main server's performance today, which at first appeared somewhat inexplicable but ended up being identified as some significant traffic on a normally rather quiet NNTP service. I (...) (16 years ago, 19-Aug-08, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Vignette - Requiem.
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Burial detail for a dead soldier on the battlefield. My first attempt at building a tree! (4 URLs) Dr. S. (16 years ago, 17-Aug-08, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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