You may have noticed that we're normally a pretty irreverent bunch here at ThinkGeek. But news of the passing of Gary Gygax and Arthur C. Clarke has hit us pretty hard and it's a sad time for the monkeys here at Geek Central. Some of us remember coloring in the numbers on our first set of dice, and many of us will forever think of a beautiful rotating space station when hearing The Blue Danube. Each of us would be very different in real life were it not for the contributions these two visionaries made to our fantasy lives. So giant thanks from us here at ThinkGeek to Gary Gygax and Arthur C. Clarke for helping to shape us into the geeks we are today, and as many other folks have already mentioned, we will critically miss you both... and they say that on the other side of this mortal coil "it's full of stars."

Now, roll a 20 or throw a bone in the air for respect, shake off the effects of that #00ff00 ethanol many of you imbibed over the last few days and let us move along...