Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Sudden Downtime

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

The site went down yesterday evening for a couple hours. According to our host we were eating up too much of the server. Naturally, I am blaming all of you and your insatiable need to look at sexy cat-girls. Anyway, I added someĀ  zippy plugins to hopefully squash down our bandwidth. They told me they […]

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Zap! Halo Reach Nights!

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Hey everyone! Halo Reach has launched and you know what that means! … you don’t? Oh, well its the return of Halo nights! We don’t have a solid day as to when to have them regularly at the moment so I’m open to suggestions. The first one, however, will be this Wednesday (the 15th) at […]

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Draw Better is Back

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

For those of you who weren’t following the Twitter feeds, Helpmedrawbetter.com has been up and running for a couple weeks now, so you should go an catch up! But the biggest news is that you can now suggest drawings again. I know a few of you have been asking me when you could do that […]

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Billy Update Returns: The Squid Strikes Back

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

Submitted for the approval of the Zapling Society: An actual factory painted Billy the Squid toy. Isn’t he majestic? For real, though, friends, they are painting the squids right now. I have sent in the package designs to be printed and I have been told more than once that they should finally be shipping to […]

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Play the Billy the Squid Game!

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Hello, Zaplings! Joe put together this awesome Billy the Squid game as my Callakuh present and you can now play the first level! (Facebook fans got to see it earlier, twitter followers EVEN SOONER THAN THAT!) Guide Billy through a star field, eating space fishes and avoiding Daedelus and asteroids as you go, but maybe […]

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Zap! Charms Now on Preorder! SHIPPING!

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

The charms are now up for pre-order! CLICK HERE TO ORDER Your can order them individually or snag the full set and save a little. I’m really excited about them and already have a Naveed on my keys (I’m testing the durability… yes… that’s it). These charms are around 2 inches tall (a little less) […]

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A New Note on Billy

Friday, July 16th, 2010

I just talked to Patch Together about the status of our little AWOL squid toy. They told me the squids would be leaving the factory in September, which sounds awesome, but I will believe it when I see it. But I thought now would be a good time to talk about the weird situation we […]

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This is My Dog Lucy on a Zap! Banner

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

This is my dog Lucy. I got her about six months ago after someone abandoned her (OMG, WTF?!) at my brother’s house. They actually tied her to the bumper of his truck in the middle of the night. Anyway, it turns out those people were total asschumps because Lucy is in fact the greatest dog […]

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Billy the Squid Update >:(

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

After not hearing an update on the squids for a couple of weeks I contacted Patch Together. I just got a response. I’m none too pleased. We had some problems with our vinyl production and we have switched to another factory. All vinyl production have been postponed. We are hoping to have everything sorted out […]

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Billy the Squid Update

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Hello my Zaplings! Billy has paint! I got this shot from manufacturer and it has me pretty excited. They’re sending me a prototype to give final approval and then hopefully we can finally get these little guys shipping! Which means if you’ve been waiting to order your squid, time is running out on the special […]

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