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Why it's like 6 years was only yesterday
On the scrying-glass of your stripy Flash Gordon rocketship you see...
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Richard's other dystopian pokeverse
So all these recent DDoS attacks have convinced me that I should set up a second site just for the roleplaying stuff. I'll be posting it in both places for the foreseeable future. Some recent posts have made it over there but they lost their marching order on the way. -
underwater kites, GURPS high tech fodder AND crowdsourced hexcrawls
Time's 50 Best Inventions of 2010
yes, I know it's not exactly timely. But seriously the underwater kites for generating electric power are pretty cool. Especially now the fishing industry's done.
Most transhumanist entry: organ printing.
ALSO: it ain't easy being frondy.
Zak Smith had a pretty good idea over on google+: crowdbuilding hexcrawls ( Read more... ) -
Don't read the Supreme Court deliberations on gay marriage...
...read this truncated transcript instead. I am told it's disturbingly accurate.
BREYER: I’m going to ask you an extremely long question riddled with nonspecific nouns, and you’re going to have to guess what I mean by it.
COOPER: I’m pretty sure the answer is no? But let’s stop talking about whether I should be allowed to talk, and get on to what I’ ( Read more... ) -
How secret was Freddie Mercury's tomb?
so secret that I didn't even know it was secret. Anyway apparently it's been found 21 years after his death. Ahem. Via unimpeachable news source, Oui FM.
All I have to say is damn that man had style. A secret tomb? Now I want one.
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Atlas Obscura, The Null Device and other repositories of things I don't want to forget
Atlas Obscura - odd places around the world. Has previously contained such high-octane weirdness as the Georgia Pyramid compound of Tama-Re.
Gamma World War (sample page: Japanese secret pyramid base)
I don't know much about Velvet Revolution yet except it lead me to the Prague Museum of Communism (relevant to my post-Soviet post-apocalyptic ( Read more... ) -
Space 1889 resurrected auf Deutsch
possibly of interest to st_rev and others: Space 1889 being remade with new rules. In German.
...are these Space 1889 novels? Mmmmnot for me, thanks, but maybe of interest to others.
And while I'm here: all the Dragon Magazines on Internet Archive. Not sure if that's OK or not, but there they are.
Handy index of articles by author, system and... really ( Read more... ) -
Stupid,* very very childish and NSFW
Imma just leave this here.
* also gratuitously and inexplicably homophobic for about 3 words halfway through, which almost soured me on the whole thing, but I rallied. Just in case that will get you down and/or you don't take the warning at the top there seriously. -
The Hobbit
only 2 months after everyone else, I finally saw The Hobbit part 1 with my eldest on Sunday. He has not yet read any Tolkien ( Read more... ) -
assorted ramblings
Philogeny
So remember when record producing jumped off a cliff, propelled by Daniel Lanois?
I admit it didn't seem like that to me at the time, but listening back now nothing sounds so hopelessly artificial and devoid of ideas as thos ethereal soundscapes of wonder that every old folkie from Richard Thompson to the Neville Brothers indulged in ( Read more... )