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Go Vote for a New Monopoly Token! (And Save Your Favorite!)

Hasbro is currently running a Facebook campaign that allows YOU to vote for a new, permanent player's token. This kinda sucks if you don't use Facebook, but if you do, go vote now! As you can see above, the five candidates for a new token are: robot, ring, cat, helicopter, and guitar. Right now the cat is far ahead (cat owners can get pretty determined!), but since there already exists an animal on the board — and it has a very good chance of staying on — I would prefer another piece. I can't quite decide if I like the robot or the guitar best, but that's just me. Which is your favorite? Voting will continue until February 6th, when the replacement token will be...

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The Star Wars Trilogy as Maps by Andrew DeGraff

Check out these illustrated maps of the original Star Wars trilogy by artist Andrew DeGraff. The more you look at each piece, the more you realize they’re so much more than just maps; they’re the movies themselves, featuring all the films’ locations with interweaving lines depicting major characters’ passages through the movies.

Be sure to click on each to see the incredible detail.

A New Hope:
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My Body, My Self-Image, My Self-Destruction

I once had a friend who went on a 6-week volunteer trip to a third world country. When she returned, we got together for dinner and she regaled me with tales of building shelters, teaching English, and even giving away many of the clothes she had brought for the trip. Her story was expectedly not void of woes; she had suffered countless mosquito bites, painful sunburn, and could not be happier to have access to clean water again. And then her voice fell to a hush. "I only lost 3 pounds though. I left for the trip thinking I would return a skeleton. But I only lost three. I almost wish that I had caught dysentery or malaria while I was there...

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