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A growing number of establishments are accepting Bitcoin as payment. Now you can even use it to play arcade games. British company Liberty Games combined the cutting edge currency with the aging gaming platform to make a simple transaction hilariously complicated. The company used a Raspberry Pi and a PiFace add-on to make the payment interface.

Liberty Games first tried their Bitcoin payment mod on a pool table. After receiving good feedback for that mod, the company decided to apply it on an arcade machine.

The great thing about their method is that it doesn’t mess with the machine’s software, which means it can be performed on pretty much any coin-operated arcade game. Not that you should.

[via Gamefreaks]

Sneaky isn’t your ordinary card game. While most will pit you against friends, family, and acquaintances, Sneaky will challenge you to interact with others outside of your usual circle instead.

It’s essentially a stack of dares that encourages you to be sneaky as you accomplish the objective printed on it. It’s described as a card game about “creating fun and creative social interactions, breaking up the tedium of everyday life.” From the looks of it, Sneaky can do just about that – and more.

The main goal of the game is to get rid of all your cards by following each cards own rule set. The game works best in common social environments. Places like malls, school campuses, offices, conferences, camps, youth groups, parties, and other public places. In most situations there is a player who is playing the game and a non-player who is not. With the player interacting in some way with the non-player.

Sneaky was created by 16-year-old Harry Lee back in 2009, with the help of hundreds of volunteers who helped create ideas for the deck.

The best part? You can just download Sneaky Cards and print them at home to begin the fun. You can also contribute your own ideas to the project over on Reddit.

[via Boing Boing via The Awesomer via Laughing Squid]

Growing up my grandmother had a round rock inside her flowerbed. She had carted around that rock for eleventy billion years, otherwise known as her childhood. My brother and I used to bowl with it because it was round and pissed off our grandmother. Once day we broke the rock in half, which wasn’t as hard as it might sound, and realized it was a geode.

I have had a soft spot of wonder for geodes since then. An artist named Skullis creates life-size hand-carved skulls out geodes and they are awesome. It looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones flick. Each skull is intricately carved and is open on the top showing the crystals inside the skull.

Someone already bought this particular geode skull for $1560(USD), and I would say that is money well spent. If you’d like a carved skull of your own, be sure to check out Skullis’ online shop, which has many other stone and crystal skulls available for purchase in a variety of sizes and price points. The black obsidian one is especially impressive:

[via Lost at E Minor via Laughing Squid]

Growing up, about the only comics I had anything to do with were Peanuts, The Far Side, and Calvin and Hobbes. I was never really interested in other comic strips or comic books. This slick Calvin and Hobbes LEGO diorama brings back fond memories.

The LEGO set has Calvin and his tiger on a snowmobile zipping through the ice and snow with evil snowmen trying to get them. One of the snowmen has two heads, another looks like an AT-ST walker from The Empire Strikes Back, and there is one with a pitchfork through its head.

The LEGO creation was made for a store display by brick artist Tyler Sky, also known as Bricksky on Flickr. Hobbes looks a bit worried, but Calvin seems happy enough.

[Flickr via Brothers Brick]

Make every wound and boo-boo an 8-bit adventure with these fun video game bandages. Putting a bandage on your ouchie will get you a 1up now. You have to bleed for that extra life sometimes.

You get a tin of 25 flexible bandages, with four different styles, including a 1up, swords, 2 Lives Left and Game Over. Use that last one for mortal wounds, when there is no hope left.

These bandages will make you feel better about your injury and give you something cool to look at while you recover. They are only $7(USD) from Urban Outfitters.