Archive for December, 2007

If it is Friday, It Must Be Web Quiz Day!

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Which D & D Character Am I (Take 2 the quiz at Take One is gone now.): I Am A: Neutral Good Human Fighter/Sorcerer (3rd/3rd Level)

Humans Must Be Minerals or Vegetables Then

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Animals not allowed to have sex in town. Humans must be minerals or vegetables then. Who knew? via Boing Boing

Christmas Time – Yay or Bah?

Friday, December 21st, 2007

So I was reading Tony Long’s complaints about holiday excess in Wired and I had to pause and ask myself “Self, why don’t you hate Christmas?”

Life Was A Paradise…

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

This story on the BBC about Medieval diet is one of my favorite story types, a nanny lecture that completely misses the point. The medieval diet and exercise regime was what it was because they had no choice about it at all. They lived hard, short lives because their society didn’t support enough excess capacity [...]

Common Ground

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Excellent article from a very odd place on 10 Things Christians and Atheists Can (And Must) Agree On at Cracked.Com. Cracked.Com is the online version of Cracked magazine, which I remember mostly as a Mad magazine knock off. I would read it as a kid now and then, but Mad was the real thing. Anyway, [...]

Curses!

Monday, December 17th, 2007

I was unaware of these neat Roman curses being found in the UK. I think we should come up with a modern version. Someone’s image left on an old hard drive buried in the back yard?