July 18th: Today in 64ad was the great fire in Rome. Depending on who you want to believe Emperor Nero either did, or didn’t fiddle while the city burned…

July 17th: Today in 1955 Disneyland opened to the public. Smaller and more compact than the huge sprawling Disneyworld, I am never the less always amazed at how immersive the park is considering it is hemmed in by development. Happy 50th Disneyland!

July 16th: Today in 1779 Mad Anthony Wayne leads an attack on Stony Point, a fort in New York. Attacking at night with the unloaded muskets to prevent the suprise from being lost the troops captured the fort at bayonet point. Hmmm. Wonder how he came to be known as mad…..

Apparently I was wrong, Goths don’t actually love overbearing corporations after all and White Wolf has pulled its pay for play plans. They haven’t actually cancelled them, they are bringing them back in for a rewording…. Sadly the genius who thought of this probably still has his or her job.

July 15th: Today in 1815 Napoleon surrenders formally on the HMS Bellerophon before being sent off to his exile on St. Helena. Not the glorious end he hoped for when he launched his comeback, but the British were determined this time to park him a long, long way from another attempt.

Dr. Doom reviews the new Fantastic Four movie. Hint: He doesn’t like it.

In what must be a first a murderer was capured in Taiwan after revealing his location while playing an online game. Lets look at the transcript:
StraightArrow: Dude that is an awesome axe!
Badelf: This axe is nothing compared to my leet arsenal I keep at my home at 1111 Fictional Place!
StraightArrow: Reeeaaaallllyyy. K laters, gotta go.

July 14th: Today in 1789 a mob of Paris citizens storm the Bastille and freed seven of the prisoners in it. This was the start of the most intense part of the early French Revolution.

July 13th: Today in 1793 Jean Paul Marat was murdered by Charlotte Corday. He is often depicted as the classic revolutoinary extremist, guillotining his enemies ruthlessly but he was a very popular politician and his death caused a huge uproar at the time.

If you were one of the lucky people who got a copy of the new Harry Potter book early from a Canadian bookseller, you have entered the twilight zone. A court has ordered you to not speak about what you have read and to return the books immediately, despite your absolute innocence in the [...]