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Birthday best wishes
Happy birthday curiouswombat. Hope your Christmas was a good one. -
Powerful game design
Brenda Brathwaite makes thought-provoking games.
(Thanks to Two Scooters Press for reminding me of this and pointing to this new article.) -
Wonderfully rude phrases from around the world
Prompted by a Boing Boing post, I spent a few minutes (okay, nearly 20 minutes) reading a thread on Reddit of "culturally untranslateable phrases". My favourite so far: "Jou mammie naai vir bakstene om jou sissie se hoerhuis te bou," translated beautifully as "your mother engages in prostitution in order to raise funds for the building materials ( Read more... ) -
Happy birthday mrs_dm
Best birthday wishes, mrs_dm. Hope it's a great day and the start of a great decade. -
11th November Remembered
"Dulce et Decorum Est ( Read more... ) -
[boardgames] Glory to Rome 3 hander
We played Glory to Rome on Sunday after a longish boardgaming drought. This time we bit the bullet and played the full game with the building powers in effect. Perhaps it should have come with a warning. "Certain card combos may be very powerful or lead to degenerate play ( Read more... ) -
Mapcrunch
I'm sure you'll have seen this elsewhere, but Mapcrunch's webpage let's you teleport around the world. It's fascinating.
