January 31rst: Today in 1606 Guy Fawkes was executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot. No sissy lethal injection for him, he was hanged, drawn and quartered. Kids these days don’t know how lucky they have it.

Fark is asking people to photoshop Wile E. Coyote inventions in the real world. Some are very lame, some are very good. All I needed to know in life I learned from Wile E. Coyote, he is the master.

Fear of Girls is a movie mocking the truly hard core of the role playing game world. I want to dislike it for picking on easy targets but it is pretty funny and sadly like most I knew some who fit this pretty closely. Worth a look.
Via Slashdot

January 30th: Today in 1649 Charles I, the King of England is executed. Charles refused to plea at his trial, believing that the court had no jurisdiction over him, this proved to be a mistake for him, but it did allow his family to place themselves well to overthrow Cromwell’s military dictatorship later. After the [...]

January 29th: Today in 1856 the first Victoria Crosses were given out to soldiers for herioc acts during the Crimean War. This award is still the highest medal for valor in the British army today, even as the army is being disassembled and marginalized in modern Britain. How bad is it getting there? Soldiers [...]

January 28th: Twenty years ago in 1986 the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up shortly after lift off. I remember when I heard the news I thought they were joking. Sadly, there weren’t joking.

The Humuhumunukunukuapuaa has been the Hawaii state fish but it is no longer! Can anarchy be far behind? And what about Naomi?

January 26th: Today in 1788 a British fleet established the first permanent settlement of Europeans in Australia in Sydney. This allowed them a new place to dump prisoners as Georgia in the United States was no longer an option to them due to the American Revolution. So Happy Australia Day to all readers on the [...]

Apparently you are no longer to get together to ‘Stitch and Bitch’ together thanks to an over aggressive trademark holder. If that bothers you there is a boycott going. There are many companies who seem to protect their trademarks just fine without pissing all over their fans (or in this case potential customers), I wonder [...]

Very interesting application called OGLE that lets you extract 3D images from computer games and the like and print them out on the various modelling printers on the market. They are hugely expensive printers at the moment, but someday you can have your own action figures of you in game characters. If I was [...]