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2006/2/28 Space Invaders on Your WallHere's cool wall art that's a line of space invader decals in an assortment of different colors. This would be very cool for a game room or kid's room. 2006/2/23 Amazon Associates ProgramA couple of weeks back, MSN Spaces released an update with some new features. One of them was integration with Amazon for booklists. So, I decided to give that feature a try. All of the book links on my blog now point to Amazon entries with my associate id. Any book referrals and says will have some small amount of change put into my account. Cool.
It will be interesting to see how much click through this will actually provide.
2006/2/21 The Problem with Social Sites2006/2/20 Free Software ListI just came across this really good list of free software that's available on the web. Lots of this freeware is created by open source projects, and some are free programs that companies supply to help in further their business. Either way, there are some very good alternatives for some software that you may currently be paying for.
I thought this was a great idea, and we could really benefit from a comprehensive list of free rpg gaming software too. I've seen a couple of smaller lists that people have put together for specific types and areas of tools. I'm considering putting together something more comprehensive both to help me out in my DM work and to help others find existing tools. 2006/2/18 What Happened to the NBA?Years ago, I remember watching the NBA, excited about the games, the teams, and the players involved. Today, it's all-star weekend, and I don't even care. Remember when the best players in the league were involved in the slam-dunk contest and 3-point shootout. I never watch the games on TV anymore, and I may watch 1 or 2 live Sonics games a year.
It isn't that I don't enjoy watching sports. I can and have spent whole weekends watching football. I'll sit through a baseball game. I've even just sat through the winter Olympics biathlon (cross-country skiing and sharpshooting) with more interest than I've had for an NBA game.
And, it isn't that I don't enjoy watching basketball. I love watching college basketball -- the games are exciting, the stories of different schools are compelling, anyone can win (even a lowly seeded team can beat the best teams in the country). And, with March Madness around the corner, college basketball is just picking up steam.
So, I'm not sure exactly what it is: the games are boring and mostly a foregone conclusion until you reach the playoffs; or, too much defense and not enough scoring; or, the players just aren't as interesting to watch (but, they still seem as talented); or, the playoff system is set up for the best teams to win, so there aren't as many upsets (like the NFL and college basketball); or, some mix of all of the above...
Not sure. What do you think? 2006/2/15 Altered Carbon by Richard MorganI just finished reading the sci-fi, who-done-it Altered Carbon. The book had some really great sci-fi concepts. People recorded the memories and more onto stacks attached to their brain stems and when they were killed their stack would be downloaded into another body (or sleeve) -- possibly a clone or a body no longer in use. If you really wanted to kill someone, you had to kill the body and destroy the stack before it was retrieved. Very rich people had their stack uploaded every few days so there were backup copies in storage somewhere in case they were really killed. So, death really became a minor inconvience. Except for catholics on Earth, who were morally opposed to this concept.
Also, rather than constant space travel, people would beam their stack to another world (one inhabited by humans) and download it into a sleeve.
Convicted criminals had their stacks removed from their bodies and placed on ice, where they waited until their sentence was serviced. Meanwhile, their bodies were up for sale for others to use.
The who-done-it part of the book wasn't that great. It starts with Laurens Bancroft believing he was killed but everyone else saying he committed suicide. After a lot of searching, much killing, and several plot twists. In the end, it turns out he had committed suicide to forget something he had done after his last upload.
The ending just didn't come off well for me. 2006/2/13 Kids Say No to Selling CandyHere's a cool story about a group of kids in Florida that refused to sell candy to raise money after completing their health class. Good for them. And, for doing the right thing, Veronica Atkins donated $16,000 to the school for their field trip -- good for her too. 2006/2/8 Songbird Looks CoolSongbird is an open-source music player and online music browser. It's a Windows-only application for now, but they're promising support for other platforms as well. It's currently a preview, so you should probably be careful using it.
It's UI is similar to iTunes, but in some ways sleeker. It lets you play music that you've saved in your music library, or browse the web for music. They're able to connect to lots of different musical sources so, it should be really useful. Check out this link for some Q&A about Songbird.
I haven't downloaded it yet (their site appears to be very busy). But, I plan to first chance I get. 2006/2/1 Seahawks vs SteelersThis weekend's game is looming, and I can't wait to see it. It would be great to see the Seahawks win. I've never been in a city or area when they've won the Super Bowl (unfortunately, I was long gone from New England before they started winning them). Seems like it would be exciting.
At the risk of offending a few Steelers fans out there, here's a funny little joke I just got sent to me:
DM Links to Help Define GameMartin wrote two posts about helpful links for GMs and questions to help you define your characters. Both are good sources of information. I've been going through the helpful links - some I know about, some were new to me, but most are very good. |
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