Words of wisdom from a combustable amphibian.
If you are cursed with morbid curiosity and have time to kill, jump on over to the 12 to Midnight website, where you can hear myself, Ed, and Jerry weave a tapestry of BS about what’s involved in publishing roleplaying games. This recording comes from a convention session we held back in March, so it’s a Q&A [...]
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There’s an excellent article on Ars Technica today on the significance of an FCC ruling in the 1960s related to a little device that could broadcast a telephone signal beyond the range of wires. You may be thinking “cell phone”, but the idea was that an oilman out in the fields far away from a [...]
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One of my new favorite websites is Photoshop Disasters, which pokes fun at some truly terrible photoshop jobs that somehow make it to print unnoticed. Unfortunately, my very favorite one featured on the site thus far also happens to be NSFW. When you’re not at work and the wife/girlfriend isn’t around, get a chuckle out [...]
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The Sci-Fi Channel has a very sharp stratification of quality. On one hand, you have Farscape and Battlestar Galactica. Then you have the constant sludge of b and c-grade made-for-cable movies. (Mansquito, anyone?) The Lost Room definitely falls into the former category.
This mini-series from 2006 is infecting my brain, courtesy of Netflix. Disc 1 includes the [...]
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From an entertainment standpoint, there’s something enticing by the idea of a clever criminal. We could blame it on “the media”, but it’s certainly not a new phenomonon. Remember that Sherlock Holmes matched wits with some of England’s most cunning evil-doers, and one can easily draw on dozens of other early literary references. Today we simply carry on the tradition. Just remember that the image [...]
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