Dungeons and Dragons implicated in murder. I suspect this is a pretty tenous connection, but the article doesn’t really give enough info to say. Sadly this sort of story always seems to come around every few years. The facts never seem to connect after the fact, but it always makes the headlines.

March 29th: Bloodiest battle on English soil that anyone knows about. They have been digging up the mass graves and finding out that unlike the SCA version, real combat in the middle ages was a pretty gruesome affair.

March 29th: Many people have heard of the Zulu war battles of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift, made famous in the movies Zulu and Zulu Dawn, but the battle of Khambula was a more traditional colonial battle. The Zulus charged against rifle armed British troops in defensive positions and were mowed down. The bravery of the [...]

Falconry at the Battle of Hastings Reenactment October 2004 #4

Originally uploaded by Tancread.

I go to a lot of reenactments and fairs and see a lot of Falconry. I enjoy it, I can’t get enough of raptors in general and am always thrilled when I see [...]

The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Cliches is just what it says it is. Very comprehesive. You really have to love the Internet.

A field guide to the mystery beasts of the British Isles by one of the editors of the Fortean Times so it must be good! This is what keeps me on my toes when I go out hiking.

Ragnar Lodbrok is a legenday viking king who held Paris hostage and rampaged around the French countryside collecting a fortune in Hostages. Met his end in a pit of snakes in England which is not known for having a ton of poisonous snakes to fill pits with. This led to all sorts of cheery violence [...]

Anarchist Bookfair Marks Decade of Dissent. Money quote:
“The Bush era has been good for anarchist consumerism,” says Joey Cain, 50, a longtime supporter.
I am sooo happy for all you anarchist entrepreneurs, hope that venture capital comes thru for you.

Corporate handouts suck.

The Treaty of Utrecht was signed today ceding Gibraltar to Britain in 1713. The Spanish have been demanding Gibraltar back since the 1950s. Given the Spanish claims the British seem suprisingly accepting of US claims to the ownership of the Atlantic coast of most of North America that Britain gave away in a treaty [...]