You can laugh at Lar as much as you like, Milton, but NOBODY MOCKS THE LEGO!!!

Best I saw was a lego replica of Schloss Neuschwanstein, probably notable in its own right (disclaimer: I have a certain notoriety for inclusionism) but I could find nothing on flickr of an acceptable license.

What you could do, Lar, is create a mediawiki extension for collaborative assembly of virtual legos. "Stable versions" would take on a whole new meaning (think Jenga).

Lego My Ego!


This one is for Casliber, with humble apologies to Alison:

Until you said that, I didn't get that it was supposed to be a head - I was trying to interpret what turns out to be the upper jaw as an arm, with the nose as a fist.

I get the impression that Brandt might be simply adding admins etc as they become available. This would be a good thing if Hivemind ceased being a device to squeeze individual concession in exchange for removal and simply became a catalog of who has authority on Wikipedia. This would take away any of the coercive flavor it sometimes has. He is approaching maybe 100 which is a pretty good start (I didn't actually count). I don't much like the Selina inclusion as it fails to recognize a "dissent" v "authority" distinction that I think is important but Brandt might not agree. It is nevertheless good if he makes inclusion more dispassionate. Also I think he should link to WMF's "confirmed identity" page as this is also an important resource to accountability as the information would be readily available by subpoena or other discovery tools to anyone with a serious need for it.

This may seem a daft question, and could go in another thread, but following on from the above...is it possible for users who don't actually have to confirm their identity to do it voluntarily?

Well, I guess I should have tossed a smiley in there somewhere but I figured that by saying "browbeat some hapless toddler" you'd know I was smiling.... because let's review (In case you never had kids, gentle reader, and sorry for the repeat for those of you that did)

1) Toddlers are NOT browbeatable. By definition. The very idea is ridiculous. Hence a clue I was kidding back.
2) Toddlers are NOT hapless. They are the epitome of devious perfidity (in a nice way, they didn't MEAN for the cake to end up on the floor, it just sort of happened... etc.). Also a clue.


Not much. But thanks just the same. I suppose I should be flattered. I've always thought I was rather toothless. Saber toothed eh? Raaaawr!


Heh. Actually the LEGO community has a long and rich tradition of mockery and inside jokes and bad puns. Some of it even is good natured. We just tend not to appreciate the mundanes doing it. (and, no offense, but whoever built that thing is a mundane. At best.)



Not to toot my own horn but if you go for sculpture (which I don't) the work I PMed that our club did in which we did a Tony the Tiger™ statue is not bad. Me, I like big minifig scale layouts and slice of life sort of dioramas. Try searching Brickshelf.


Virtual LEGO is already fairly well established, google for LDraw sometime... collaborative hmm... I think there's a game that is a cross between a digital designer and an RPG in which you buy virtual blocks and build stuff to use in the game... not sure if BrickWiki has a write up.

But I digress.

Would you care to enlighten us as to how to tell?

What, the photo doesn't make it obvious enough?

That thing is hideous!

And what about the demi-mundanes?

She's not bad... she's just cast that way.

Lar... The "hooker" even looks like a Lego figurine... You are really going to have check over your reading material - it is starting to look a little suspect...

Captain Obvious, it's supposed to look like a LEGO minifig, that's why the punchline works. (if you know what range of movement minifigs have, and what their hands are shaped like)

My comment was a takeoff on what Jessica Rabbit said.

Oh, right. There you go, who says you can't learn things on WR..?

...another damn two minutes of my life wasted, and I bet some important snippet regarding the particular guitar set-up by a almost unfamous for five minute punk group from a single released in the Seventies has now permanently departed from the trivia repository I am pleased to term my memory...

Damn you all!!!

I once saw a Lego structure of a full-size woman. She was definitely a "brick house"