Friday, December 31, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Coupon Cabin
Possibly something to assist with the new frugality initiative:
Coupon Cabin
Apparently the Better Business Bureau approves.
Coupon Cabin
Apparently the Better Business Bureau approves.
Monday, December 13, 2010
A deviation from cannon
The DM of the Rings comic had been pretty much a retelling of the Lord of the Rings as if a D&D adventure with the PCs grumbling as they were railroaded through the plot of the books. At this point though the train jumped the track.
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Parenting Taboos
Summary of the Ted Talk (scroll down to the section by Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman)
Don't think we really felt taboo number 1 to be the case. Though number 2 is pretty familiar.
Don't think we really felt taboo number 1 to be the case. Though number 2 is pretty familiar.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Smells Like Sesame Spirit
Sesame Street/Old Spice parody.
(I know you've seen it, but just for future reference.)
Bad news for your dissertation
Prognostications which might make the subject matter irrelevant:
Via Boing Boing.
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28) It will become harder to view your life as “a story”
The way we define our sense of self will continue to morph via new ways of socializing. The notion of your life needing to be a story will seem slightly corny and dated. Your life becomes however many friends you have online.
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30) Some existing medical conditions will be seen as sequencing malfunctions
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Dysfunctional mental states stem from malfunctions in the brain's sequencing capacity. One commonly known short-term sequencing dysfunction is dyslexia. People unable to sequence over a slightly longer term might be “not good with directions.” The ultimate sequencing dysfunction is the inability to look at one's life as a meaningful sequence or story.
- Douglas Coupland, A Radical Pessimist's Guide to the Next 10 Years
Via Boing Boing.
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Monday, September 27, 2010
An Honor to Be of Assistance
Apparently when the first letter "H" in a word is mute you use the article "an" before it. I guess it's about the sound of the word rather than the actual spelling.
So says this.
Presumably this rule applies to the phrase "An Hundred" as a holdover from back in the day when everyone in the world spoke with a cockney accent.
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So says this.
Presumably this rule applies to the phrase "An Hundred" as a holdover from back in the day when everyone in the world spoke with a cockney accent.
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
Contrastive reduplication
The phrase may not sound familiar from your English classes, but you'd know it when you heard it. Apparently it's now a categorized thing that someone wrote a paper on:
Via Boing Boing, via Mark Rabnett's Posterous.
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This paper presents a phenomenon of colloquial English that we call Contrastive Reduplication (CR), involving the copying of words and sometimes phrases as in It''s tuna salad, not SALAD-salad, or Do you LIKE-HIM-like him?
Via Boing Boing, via Mark Rabnett's Posterous.
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Monday, July 19, 2010
Dunning-Kruger Effect
As described in The Anosognosic's Dilemma.
This sounds like something you've run into a bit over the years.
Via Boing Boing.
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This sounds like something you've run into a bit over the years.
Via Boing Boing.
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The Old Spice Channel
You've seen a few, but in case you need an additional dose of this man, here's the list:
Old Spice Man E-mail and Twitter responses.
Via Boing Boing.
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Old Spice Man E-mail and Twitter responses.
Via Boing Boing.
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
Woot! Bought by Amazon.com
But read the letter from the Woot CEO to all hands about the event:
Amazon, Woot, and You: But Mostly Woot
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Amazon, Woot, and You: But Mostly Woot
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Glee club and copyright.
It's kind of funny but the stuff mentioned in this article is exactly what pops into my mind when Glee has those mashups:
Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club
Via Boing Boing.
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Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club
Via Boing Boing.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Carmensita
Banhart and Portman go Bollywood.
To catch the subtitles this should probably be viewed at full size.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
RPG Humor
Vecna
It helps to have a little background here: Vecna was a lich (an evil wizard who used his power to prolong his life after death) who went on to become a god. Along the way Vecna lost an eye and a hand. These lost body parts became powerful magical artifacts.
Which brings us to the tale of:
The Head of Vecna
The Gazebo
This is a pretty old story. I think I might have even read about it in college. Read on for:
The Dread Gazebo
The Gamers
Dorkness Rising is the movie I was watching.
The Gamers is it's lower budget predecessor (watchable on line though).
It helps to have a little background here: Vecna was a lich (an evil wizard who used his power to prolong his life after death) who went on to become a god. Along the way Vecna lost an eye and a hand. These lost body parts became powerful magical artifacts.
Which brings us to the tale of:
The Head of Vecna
The Gazebo
This is a pretty old story. I think I might have even read about it in college. Read on for:
The Dread Gazebo
The Gamers
Dorkness Rising is the movie I was watching.
The Gamers is it's lower budget predecessor (watchable on line though).
Thursday, April 15, 2010
On the agrarian roots of civic leadership
"A scandal has erupted in the City Council of Bulgaria's Plovdiv as several councilors have been caught milking virtual cows on the Facebook application Farmville. The councilors were first detected playing Farmville two weeks ago during the debates for Plovdiv's 2010 budget."
Via Boing Boing.
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
ZOMG-bies in RPGs (etc.)
A wide variety of RPGs represent zombies in one way or another. Upon request I could supply some information about how zombies are or could be represented in various generic and/or rules-lite systems. The following are a few of the better known representations:
D&D Zombies - from d20 v. 3.5.
All Flesh Must Be Eaten - Wikipedia entry and reviews.
World of Darkness Zombies
Lovecraftian zombies:
D&D Zombies - from d20 v. 3.5.
All Flesh Must Be Eaten - Wikipedia entry and reviews.
World of Darkness Zombies
- Zombie: the Coil - IIRC Old World of Darkness fan supplement.
- Promethean: The Created - New World of Darkness gameline. Prometheans aren't exactly zombies or golems, but sort of Frankenstein-ish monsters. Wikipedia entry here, review here.
Lovecraftian zombies:
- Herbert West: Reanimator (story)
- The Deanimator (short video game)
- Ghouls - Not technically zombies or undead in this representation (more detailed info here).
Facebook Games and the Military-Industrial Complex
Just thought you might like to know that your Farmville produce is going to feed the dogs of war.
At least according to this article on India's use of ghost chilis.
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At least according to this article on India's use of ghost chilis.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The end of Ariel's less well known first forray into mer/human romance.
Don't let his intentions fool you just because he works for a place called "Sea Org".They're Made Out of Meat
This is from a pretty famous short story, one that is pure dialogue with no narration. As far as I know they translated it the script for this movie without any modification:
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Saturday, January 2, 2010
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