I've had twelve new people add me as a friend in the last day, all of whom exclusively use the Cyrillic alphabet in their journals and profiles. I can only imagine they are people hoping to hack my account or mine my profile for personal information which can then be used to either spam me ad nauseum or steal my identity. Bad news, folks. I have ( Read more... )

Keith Herber, long-time Call of Cthulhu line editor for Chaosium and one-time U-Con guest of honor, died this morning at the age of 60. He leaves behind his wife Sharon and his son Erik, as well as a legion of friends and admirers. Raised in Detroit, Keith was a resident of Ann Arbor for many years before moving to San Francisco. When I approached ( Read more... )

DEAR ABBY: In this day of massive cutbacks and layoffs, please remind your readers that people who have recently lost their jobs need their friends now more than ever ( Read more... )

In light of the recent news coverage of the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I would like to ask everyone who happens to read this blog to take the time to seek out and watch The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. People need to acknowledge and understand the sorts of atrocities which go on in a war zone ( Read more... )

Thanks to all who read it over the years. Not certain whether I plan to start a new one, but I don't plan on advertising it regardless. Look for me when you see me.

Holocaust heroine Irena Sendler is dead at 98. Some 2,500 children were smuggled to safety from the Warsaw Ghetto, thanks to her courage and that of her associates.

For those of you who remain fans of the greatest roleplaying game ever written, game designer and general industry trend-setter Greg Stafford has just completed two new supplements for the fifth edition of Pendragon. The first is The Book of the Manor, a revision and update of the Pendragon Economics rules. The second is The Book of Knights and ( Read more... )

Have you noticed food costing more when you shop? Here's why -- we're plunging headlong into a world food crisis. Rocketing prices are squeezing billions and triggering food riots from Bangladesh to South Africa. Aid agencies say 100 million more people are at risk of starvation right now. In Sierra Leone alone the price of a bag of rice has ( Read more... )

Yesterday, the New York Times exposed a secret Pentagon campaign to infiltrate the media with pro-war propaganda ( Read more... )

( John McCain is not who the Washington press corps makes him out to be. Here are some sobering facts: )