What it looked like then

Here's the blog of a Russian photographer who visits WWII sites and matches up photos of them today with old ones...to make interesting composites.

Squig Figure Worth Looking At

You may not enjoy the idea of Warhammer's Squigs as much as I do. But I thought this award-winning figure vignette was worthy of general interest. Of course, I might be biased: I like goblins too.

This is from the site Cool Mini or Not, which showcases a lot of good work.

Read an RPG Book in Public Week

Forgot to mention: it's Read an RPG Book in Public Week. Note that this is celebrated 3 weeks of the year, just to make it easier to do:

• February 28th - March 6th
• July 25th - 31st
• September 26th - October 2nd

The No Twinkie Database! (bad game design)

This page lists video game design problems from a long-running column. I think it's useful to review design problems in any problem domain.

As I post this (on Sunday), I can hear my son playing old video games with my brother-in-law in the living room.

Greg Rucka has novels!

I didn't know Greg Rucka had written regular ordinary novels, not just graphic novels. I've enjoyed Queen and Country and other comics by him. He's got a plain old ordinary novel featuring the characters from Queen and Country; so far I'm enjoying that too; it's called A Gentleman's Game. Any time you bring British agent Tara Chace to the table, I'm in.

Jury decides consent not required for Girls Gone Wild video

The kinds of stories that really get me riled up are these ones where justice really seems to have gone awry. Like this one where a lady who said 'no' multiple times but whose top was pulled down by someone else still found her breasts exposed in a Girls Gone Wild video.

We put too many people in prison, too readily

This article from The Economist describes how we've progressively warped the justice system by tying judge's hands and forcing long sentences. It's time to roll things back. Read some of the examples in this article and think about how a simpler penal code would benefit society. We're not helping things by ensuring that everyone is in violation of some law or other: we're just putting corrupting power in the hands of police and prosecutors.

Comic Con and the Westboro Baptist Church

Apparently those Westboro bozos decided to picket Comic Con...and sparked a great counter protest. With robots and more.

Sledgehammer and Whore

Maybe I'll just spend some time linking to really good blog posts by other people, huh? What are you gonna do about it?

This guy...he's a screenwriter/executive producer I guess. For the Sarah Connor Chronicles. But that ended. But it had 31 episodes, so that's not shabby. Anyway.

Looks like he writes a lot of entertaining stuff. But this post about ... well, about a lot of things, but crystalizes around his account of how he found out his office was being used by someone else to meet prostitutes. When he wasn't there, of course.

Well, I let my wife read it and she laughed and laughed, so what more do you need?

I'd like to point out this fellow's rambling style. It's chock full of good stuff. Much to emulate here.