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A Friend in Need
aaronace , the gentleman responsible for the beautiful and wonderful Discordia cover, needs your help. He’s been caught in one of the floods that’s going around and it looks pretty bad. You can help him out by buying a print of one of his amazing paintings. I bought this one: Go to Aaron’s Flickr gallery…
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Play Dirty: Dealing with Bad Players
This is the one comment I get the most when people talk to me about Play Dirty. I thought I’d address it in the most direct way I could.
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How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results
A great article by Michael Shermer. I highly recommend it to everyone. My favorite line: “The reason for this cognitive disconnect is that we have evolved brains that pay attention to anecdotes because false positives (believing there is a connection between A and B when there is not) are usually harmless, whereas false negatives (believing…
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Rush Plays Tom Sawyer on Rock Band
When they showed up for The Colbert Report, the show producers asked Rush to play their signature song, Tom Sawyer, on Rock Band. Hilarity ensued.
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Happy Birthday, Lynda Carter
You were my first TV crush and you’ll always be my favorite. And although I always scoff when other people say similar things, it’s true when I say that, in my world, nobody will ever be a better Wonder Woman than you. So, here’s a little tribute to Lynda Carter on her birthday as sung…
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There’s more urban legend than fact in a Planned Parenthood ad attacking McCain.
(from Factcheck.org) Planned Parenthood is running a TV ad showing John McCain painfully groping for an answer to a reporter’s question: “It’s unfair that health insurance companies cover Viagra but not birth control. Do you have an opinion on that?” McCain had good reason to be flustered. The premise of the reporter’s question is a…
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Houses of the Blooded: Gen Con/Shipping Update
The Standard Edition is now shipping from the printer. It will be at GenCon.If you ordered the Standard Edition, E-MAIL ME so I can bring a copy for you at GenCon. The Limited Edition took a little longer to print and will not be at GenCon.It will ship just a little bit after GenCon. Everyone…
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Project Alpha: Nearly 30 Years After
In 1979, James S. McDonnell donated $500,000 to Washington University in Missouri for the establishment of the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research. When James Randi heard about the project, he offered his services to the project to help avoid the problems Uri Gellar caused at the Stanford Research Institute. Randi’s offer of help was disregarded;…
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Gateway 2008
Who all is going to Strategicon at the end of August? (I will be running Houses of the Blooded and I will have books. There may be a Houses LARP. If you’re lucky.)
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Houses of the Blooded: My First Game
mnight has begun a series of posts about the HotB game she’s running–and I’m playing in! I had a ton of fun–even though we only played a few hours on Friday–and we’ll have even more fun next Friday!