Perfect Crime

I’m not actually a huge fan of The Office in practice, and haven’t actually watched hardly any episodes.  But I do love the concept and character sketches and think it often produces brilliant moments.  This is one of them:

Dwight Schrute’s perfect crime.

What’s interesting to me though is what a good, albeit ridiculous, story just this little snippet makes.  Further, the typography of that picture above does a great job capturing the energy and motion of it entirely within some static text.  This takes it even further, to dynamic text and music, and has more drama and pathos than a lot of big budget movies I’ve seen:

40k in Combat

This story came up on Slate the other day about soldiers playing 40k in Iraq and Afghanistan:

Warhammer 40K: Why American troops love to play a game featuring Orks, Necrons, and Space Marines. – Slate Magazine

Fortunately, soldiers are reflexively given too much respect for even such a mainstream source to scorn dudes playing with toy dolls, so it’s actually discussed fairly reasonably.  It even seems like the author put some effort into learning more about 40k.  I enjoyed the many links to items on Games Workshop’s website.  The trip to the NOVA Open is a double nice touch, that’s pretty cool; the NOVA guys must have been excited.

The one guy interviewed mentioned developing a grid based scheme to play without miniatures.  I’d be curious to hear what he came up with and how well it works.