We’re auctioning off some cool items in order to transport me (Rebecca) from London to Atlanta for Dragon*Con in September 2010!

We’ll be using the eBayz to auction off several items! Your winning bid will go toward a plane ticket and hotel room for me, and if we happen to raise more than we need then the rest will go to the Women Thinking Free Foundation, which was set up by Skepchick Elyse to do awesome things in Chicago like fighting anti-vaccination misinformation.

1. ) First up on the auction block: the XBox we had at the Skepchick TAM party, signed by Simon Singh, Phil Plait, Richard Saunders, Rachael “Dr Rachie” Dunlop, Joe Nickell, DJ Grothe, Michael Shermer, Captain Disillusion, Evo Terra, Ben Radford, Swoopy, Brian Dunning, and Skepchicks Tracy King, Sam Ogden, and Surly Amy Davis Roth.

2.) A corset custom made by Carr2d2! Skepchick.org’s own carr2d2 will make a custom corset for the winning bidder, and you’re only limited by what fabrics she can get her hands on! Send in your measurements, theme preferences, and what style you’d like and she’ll work with you to create a one-of-a-kind, fully lined, steel-boned corset just for you.

Previous creations include Rebecca Watson’s Bordello Party costume (seen in pic 1), a Care Bears design Carr made for herself a few months back (pic 2), and Tim3P0′s Knave of Hearts costume (pic below) at last year’s DragonCon (that’s right! Corsets aren’t just for girls!

3. The next item up on the auction block: a Muppets Pigs in Space action playset courtesy of Maria!

Maria says it’s a full Swine Trek set that features moving levers, swiveling side panels, retractable doors, removeable consols, swiveling chairs, and an interchangeable rear view-screen. It even has a Miss Piggy figure!

If you request, Maria will even sign it for you! And if you don’t mind waiting until after I visit DragonCon, I and a bunch of other Skepchicks will sign it, too. Just because you’re awesome.

Go! Bid!

4. OMG it’s a Battlestar Galactica toaster:

This fully functional Battlestar Galactica toaster brands your toast as a Cylon!

Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory has one of these in his kitchen. Haven’t you always hoped and prayed for the day that you might be almost as cool as Sheldon?

TODAY IS THAT DAY, friends.

5. This is it, folks, the last item in the Skepchick Virtual Bake Sale to fund my trip to Atlanta in September for DragonCon and the Atlanta Skeptics’ Star Party. And it’s a doozy.

I was inspired by witches flogging their services on eBay, offering nicer asses and love potions. I figured I can do that! So I will.

The winning bidder will get the body modification of his/her choice, assuming that the Wiccans are correct and these magical spells really work. I’ll record a video of myself performing your spell so you know I’ve followed through.

GO BID!

Also I made a video about it:

Your winning bid will go toward a plane ticket and hotel room for Rebecca Watson of Skepchick.org to get to Dragon*Con in Atlanta, and if over the course of the Virtual Bake Sale we happen to raise more than we need, the rest will go to the Women Thinking Free Foundation, an organization devoted to bringing science, skepticism and critical thinking to women of the Midwest.