As you no doubt noticed, I did not deliver a post about the embarrassing evidence of myself left in nooks and crannies all over our internet, as promised on April Fools' Day. I won't keep the eager few waiting much longer, but tonight's post is on a tangential subject ( Read more... )

So Joe sent the Thursday Night crew's mailing list links to four posts on Jonathan Tweet's blog on Gleemax. There was one on the storied tradition of gaming group in-jokes, and a pair that revealed to me the influence of Doctor Strange on early D&D art. One in particular, a synecdoche illustrating how novel D&D's appropriation of myth and ( Read more... )

Despite my obsessive love of learning, my unrealistic expectations for myself, the amount of blogging I do about research, not to mention the ridiculous amount of time I spend reading Consumersearch, Wikipedia, Silent PC Review, and other tech sites, sometimes something important falls through the cracks ( Read more... )

Zotero - an ambitious Firefox (and Netscape, and Flock) extension developed by The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. It was introduced to me a few weeks back by Elisabeth's (withans) eldest brother. It combines some of the tag-driven-bookmark functionality of del.icio.us (Zotero's bookmarks are stored locally), with the ( Read more... )

Okay, so the folks at Evil Hat Productions (the creators of my absolute favorite flavor of FUDGE, FATE: Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment) are making a new licensed RPG based on Jim Butcher's series of novels called The Dresden Files about a wizard private I. in Chicago.

Anywho, for reasons they get into here, Evil Hat decided against ( Read more... )