... is the number of fingers you'd have to pry out of the pie to make it cost-effective. Multi-billion-dollar industries make campaign contributions, hire lobbyists, and invest heavily in the status quo. How many Americans could those profits insure ( Read more... )

Mapache's made a pretty snazzy Javascript one, and I'm tinkering with a slightly more random PHP version ( Read more... )

Very silly quiz stolen from Uzil and Tabi. Snipped the description of lawful neutral, human, monk, and wizard, because YOU'RE ALL NERDS, TOO!

I Am A: Lawful Neutral Human Monk/Wizard (2nd/1st Level)

Ability Scores:

Strength-13

Dexterity-13

Constitution-14

Intelligence-14

Wisdom-10

Charisma-11

Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character ( Read more... )

Remembered three dreams in the past week. Kinda ran the gamut, though I never really have nightmares. Ranged from implacably mundane to wish-fulfillment fantasy to disturbing morality-questioning ( Read more... )

... is now open. Not much there... yet.

http://www.whirled.com/

~me

http://download.theforce.net/theater/nonsw/grayson/grayson_new_large.mov

Hee hee!

~me

"Nobody ever needs my permission to sig me." -- SteveD on RPG.net

... and I thought for a bit there, especially in the second-to-last episode, that I may have to spew distressed vulgarity into this blog. It's strange -- I saw a half-hearted reveal coming, and then was bored through the "dramatic irony" of principle characters being oblivious. But when two of them found out different painful truths, I empathized ( Read more... )

Reading this thread on RPG.net gave me a serious hankering to start up a Spirit of the Century game. Every player needs to have a character concept in mind, but doesn't define ANY skills, aspects, or stunts before play. Whenever the player wants to use an as-yet-undefined stat or perk, they announce what they're filling in on the character sheet ( Read more... )

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zFuMpYTyRjwRead more... )

The man is such a cipher. I haven't seen him say anything of substance that could possibly be taken as controversial. Reduce dependence on foreign oil! Stop obsessing over race! Stop getting troops killed in Iraq! Preserve net neutrality! Make America better ( Read more... )