Ok, I don't know precisely what to make of it, but if you've seen that article about the Iraqi woman who recruited 80 women to be suicide bombers, have you seen the version being reported in Australia? (And apparently on the A.P. but it's not in both American and other [French] stories).  Apparently how she recruited the women was that she would ( Read more... )

It Lives!

AHAHAHAHAHA!

Now if only it had a brain.

Cupcakes of Catan.

You're all going to want to see that.  The work involved is almost mind boggling for a one shot game that ends in crumbs.

I particularly like the Robber.

Warning!  This version of Catan may make you hungry!

I know this is purely ancedotal evidence, but it always seems to me that when someone thinks they know where a show is going/call future plots, if they are right at all, they are usually only half right.  Sometimes though, the person they tell that theory to will whack off the faulty edges of the first persons theory, insert a new fact and together ( Read more... )

I'm about 50 pages from done with John Scalzi's "The Android's Dream."   It, like most of Scalzi's work is fun, but not deep.  Although this one at least wins points for excessive mocking of Scientology and possibly Mormonism in a very back end satirical sort of way.

Anyways, near the end of this book, I think I've found the passage that sort of ( Read more... )

Ok, I've tried, I can't play this game alone.  It's impressively pulse pounding with "oh shit moments" some of which are cheating because zombies infinitely respawn as far as I can tell, but some of them are genuin and I can't win with the AI, because I'll get into a situation where I'm just auto killed on occasion because the NPCs are off doing ( Read more... )

A few days ago, essentialsaltes linked to an article 8 Science Fiction and Fantasy novels that should be movies.  The entry got me thinking about stories I would like to see on the big screen (or even as a tv series).

For me, that's a difficult question.  I read far too many short stories and far too few novels to be able to think of things that achieve those ( Read more... )

I guess this story is for ningwers really.

So I think we should start with a bit of background to make it make more sense. I now have a parking garage in my building. It's old school, narrow door, hand lift and close etc. It's also directly across from the trash dumpsters in a fairly narrow street and I drive a Saturn (A.K.A. the turning radius of a ( Read more... )

This article discusses sexual mores in red vs. blue states, and argues rather compellingly that blue states (and the middle class) are the new protectors of the traditional family. It's an interesting argument and I suspect that parts of this will resonate with the 20 somethings on my chat list. Leave a comment  1 

So I think I'm the only one still watching Smallville. That's unfortunate as the writing has gotten really good (to be fair I skipped seasons 2-5 which means it may have always been good, but I also skipped pointless angst loops which is nice) in a witty sort of way and the removal of Lana has really pushed the show forward and it's doing an ( Read more... )