A few of my favorites:
IM N UR COLONY GOIN 2 CR0T04N!!! The original old, weird America.
Old, Weird Canada: The secret origins of Flin Flon, Manitoba, and my Mom.
Blains, dyspepsia, and flatulence.
Has America lost its last great public historian? (Spoiler: No.)
Kicking ass for justice.
Most recent posts:
Kate Beaton is awesome.
Teaching history from back from front.
A course I’d like to teach on gaming, simulation, and history.
Peeing dogs, Donkey Kong, lesbians, sitcoms, and gin.
Spybots invade English village.
In loose Borgesian categories:
The game was good, but the box art was classic: Two bloggers provide a history and an overdue appreciation of the diabolical couple that conquered our world with a highly reflective black table and a sequence of four colored pegs.
Tags: Asides · Games and Gaming
Interwob links to confound and bemuse:
The SITI Program
The Search for Intelligence on the Internet: My man Mark Rayner plugs the numbers into the Drake equation, predicts that there should be 2.7 intelligent blogs in cyberspace. Keep watching the skies!
The Tank
Tom Englehardt posts Chalmers Johnson’s review of Alex Abella’s new history of RAND.
Note To Self: Ia Fhtagn
What appears to be H.P. Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book: creepy images, story ideas, and games he’d like to run. (Via Felix Gilman.)
High Tech Noon
Do not laser-shark me, oh my darling: isn’t everything better with rayguns?
Men In Tights
It’s been well linked (Barista assumed it was taking the piss but I think he underestimates Chabon’s geeky earnestness) but it’s worth it: Michael Chabon on the superhero unitard. PS How good is All-Star Superman, am I right?
The Cardboard Internet
Paul Collins on the Mundaneum, a networked encyclopedia on fifteen million index cards (shades of the Memex?). Plus index cards as (literally) the U.S. War Department’s killer app.
Google Maps of Sci-Fi
BLDG BLOG’s Geoff Manaugh on mapping the fictional onto the real.
More Dick
You heard it here first:* Moby Dick is awesome! (*No, you didn’t.)
Au Clair de la Lune
Feast your ears on the oldest known sound recording–from 17 years before Edison’s phonograph. (Via Corn Chips & Pie.)
The Pickle King of Islamistan
Khalid (née Bertram) Sheldrake, the “power hungry, toothbrush mustachioed, British ninny” who somehow failed to convert western China to Islam.
Invisible elves make our site go:
© 2001–2007 Rob MacDougall
4 responses so far ↓
1 Chris // Oct 29, 2007 at 11:15 am
I would pay good, solid, American dollars to see Uwe Boll make a “Mastermind” movie.
2 Rollen // Oct 29, 2007 at 10:07 pm
I’d pay for that in good Canadian dollars!
Not only did we have “Mastermind” growing up (still not sure how to play it…), we also had “Duell” growing up. I always wanted to play it in full Victorian regalia in the midst of a forest - it’s as close to a samurai movie as I’ll probably get.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/2409
3 Rob // Oct 30, 2007 at 3:11 pm
There’s something a little tragic about your comment, Rollen: would nobody play Mastermind with you? It’s not actually that hard to pick up. Which, given the name, is ironic!
4 Rollen // Oct 31, 2007 at 12:04 am
Fair point on the tragedy - I don’t believe we had the rules. Or I couldn’t convince my siblings to abide by the rules. Whatever it was, I can only remember coloured pegs and a board but nothing of rules.
The moral of the story: make sure that your family has the rules and plays by them.
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