How much of the stuff you have (music, books, comics, films, TV shows, RPGs etc; not clothes, a bed, a house, a car, etc.) is physical and how much is virtual, as digital information ( Read more... )

In The Watchmen is it possible that Dr Manhattan knows of Rorschach posting his journal to the New Frontiersman, if it will be published, and what will result? Or do the tachyons interfere?

Like most people with an email account I get phishing emails fairly regularly. Gmail's spam filter does a good job of recognising them and, if I open them, warning that the message may not have come from who it purports to ( Read more... )

So it seems that I have developed one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupuytren%27s_contracture

Looking on Facebook, learnt that someone who was a friend of a friend and whom I met a couple of times, had died. She could only have been in her mid 20s. Makes you realise how fragile life can be. Especially when the FB account is still there and the pictures show the person a few months ago having fun and smiling, preserved for the future they no ( Read more... )

Dungeons and Dragons: could the Next version end the edition wars?

29 May 2012 11:02PM

Them: [On Runequest/Glorantha] Exactly. The work of Joseph Campbell was a big influence. And boy, does it show. I like this thread. Pleasantly nerdy.

Me: To be extra nerdy isn't it that Glorantha's 2nd age Godlearners express Stafford's dissatisfaction with Campbell ( Read more... )

Played around with Chrome OS in Virtualbox. Very slow and thus not a good advert for its potential. Felt like SSH delays 10+ years ago.

Interesting fact about Scrabble for ipod/phone - the word fuck is not in its dictionary whereas cunt is.

Today things changed and probably will never be the same. Don't want to say any more about it at this point; may feel differently subsequently. Suffice to say it was not a change for the better.

Thinking about genocide ( Read more... )