staying up late, playing games
Lots of PDFs, a video and an MP3.
The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents covering the years 1978–2002. So if you want to find out more about lights in the sky over Waterloo Bridge, near misses by pilots, crop circles – and what the UK government thought of it all – this is the place to start.
You couldn’t make thisup.
“The judge was on the verge of sending the Dark Lord to prison for the maximum possible term but abruptly changed his mind when Vader lifted his hand and waved it from side to side, while at the same time telling the judge that he “found his lack of faith disturbing”.
The world needs more ‘characters’.
MetalFloss has a link about death:
“From Stanley Burns’ book Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America:These photographs were a common aspect of American culture, a part of the mourning and memorialization process. Surviving families were proud of these images and hung them in their homes, sent copies to friends and relatives, wore them as lockets or carried them as pocket mirrors. Nineteenth-century Americans knew how to respond to these images. Today there is no culturally normative response to postmortem photographs.”
I’ve been asked more than once to “re-create” the impossible. Adding the dead to portraits of the living.
The Internet STELLAR DATABASE is a lot of fun.
Look at the entry for Barnard’s Star especially the submits at the bottom where you can search for stars within a certain radius. How I wish this had been about when I was working on 2300AD scenarios (My favourite being ‘Bayern’ which exceeded the 7.8 light year limit on inter-stellar travel)
Looking at the entry for Sol we find:
“The “8” in the Detected Planets entry is not an error. Pluto is not a “planet,” but a huge, close-orbiting, low-eccentricity Kuiper Belt object. With a big moon. Of course, some die-hards out there still insist that it really is a planet, more for sentimental reasons than anything else. They’re welcome to live in their little fantasy world. Neener neener.”
Joshua Hoffine’s online portfolio is truly creepy. Take one part Little Fears, one part Monsters and Other Childish Things, add in a little Lovecraftian degeneration and a dose of John Carpenter and Clive Barker.
Fabulous. Absolutely fabulous. Fills my head full of ideas and sends me scrabbling to the local game store to see when they will have ‘Monsters’ in.
Autochrome images from around the world from the start of the 20th Century.
My favourite?
No, it doesn’t look anything like that any more.
How good would it be if some of the art we have planned for WotW appeared in autochrome (ignoring somewhat that it wasn’t invented until 1907).
[Credit to Mike Cane for linking to this otherwise I’d have missed it.]
This image is brilliant.
Check out the BBC video.
“A Swiss amateur parachutist made a successful drop using a replica of a parachute designed over 500 years ago, by Leonardo da Vinci.”
It’s always nice to get some kudos from people you respect and Balbinus on RPG.net has come through again with Creed/Testament/Rapture – queries and comments.
He has a few comments, mostly clarifications and does make me realise that the character sheet I provided for Creed was entirely inadequate. Or, if I meant something else I should have noted it by pre-filling in one of the sheets.
It puts me in the mood to work on something – like tidying up Creed and maybe even finishing the text for Rapture. I’ve already got so much on my plate (getting a new job, house stuff, kids, never mind working on War of the Worlds) that it should be the last thing on my mind. Ahem.
It was also cross-posted to TheRPGSite. I reckon I should hire Balbinus as my publicist.
Title taken from the Tom Waits track.
Anyone else have done something similar? Created a scenario out of a song? (And let’s face it. this song is pretty much the entire inspiration for Desperate Housewives. Imagine the pitch – “It’s like that Tom Waits track….but with boobs!”
Picked up this link to amazing starship concept art over on theRPGSite forums.
Odd quote.
“Now as a Person of Size and a Person of Color…””
Me too. I’m a slightly (Ha!) overweight white guy.
The NaamenBlog is a good read especially for interpreting the motives of oppression. It uses a lot of big words.
…that the citizens of Perugia compelled the surrender of the citadel of Gerard du Puy, the cardinal-nephew of Pope Gregory XI, during the War of the Eight Saints with a trebuchet nicknamed the cacciaprete (“priest chaser”)?
I think that the modern day Catholic Church has dire need of this.
Found this gem when I added Pooka’s blog to my blogroll.
“In 1901, New Year’s Eve, the Stars Were Right. The Great Old Ones Returned, bringing with them all manner of being from their starry prisons. Fortunately for humanity, while the Old Ones were certainly horrible to look upon, they were not nearly as great as they would have had us believe. Intergalactic layabouts, Cosmic conmen, and Trans-temporal thieves, the Great Old Ones may be functionally immortal, but they also happen to have little work ethic.”
It’s a setting into from Spirit of the Century. Read more here.
Made me laugh. In a crowded office. Terribly embarrassing.
OMG, I’m feeling the love for Planetary all over again.
I’m itching to run a Planetary-like game using Wild Talents. Soooo much….
Real Creepy Places is a link for myself.
Any self-respecting GM should be able to pastiche one of these into a game.
Brooklun Superhero Supply Company
Sadly just a graphic. Always wanted to find a thrifty place to get new Anti-Grav Boots.
But there is a STORE
Here’s the Times article talking about Microtrends. The idea that you can ultra-specialise in something and establish enough of a presence that your store becomes a tourist attraction 🙂
I’d like some canned antimatter.
Via Rob:
What is more likely? That an all-powerful mysterious God created the Universe and then decided not to give any proof of His existence, or that He simply does not exist at all?
Six short movies (Youtube links)
Mars & Beyond 1 of 6 – Man & the Sky
and more:
Mars & Beyond 2 of 6 – Mars in Pop Culture
Mars & Beyond 3 of 6 – History of Life on Earth/Solar System
Mars & Beyond 4 of 6 – Mars from Earth
Mars & Beyond 5 of 6 – Life on Mars
Mars & Beyond 6 of 6 – Travel to Mars
If you like, or are interested in time travel fiction, this is just great.
More stories on the site but I thought that one was brilliantly done.