Q: “Are You On Twitter?” A: “Not Till the Denton Cops Booked Me for Possession.” Plenty of government agencies are dipping their toes into the Twitter waters these days, but when we found the Denton Police Department’s Twitter page this afternoon, we knew we’d found something truly special. With automated posts for everyone booked at the […]
Paratime Design CartographyWelcome to the home for Old School inspired maps. We have fantasy based and Sci-Fi related maps. You may use these maps for free as long as the Creative Commons license is followed. (View the rest of the Maps at Paratime Design Cartography)
I have been monitoring for a bit DannyChoo.com. He has been a Product Manager at Microsoft, and most recently the Website manager at Amazon (Japan). Take a look at his site, and you’ll see a lot of irrelevant material, but an equal amount of small tidbits about Japanese life and culture… Go ahead, what do […]
Yard Sale Treasure Map – A Yard Sale Planning Tool Need help locating Yard Sales / Garage Sales…? Or want to publicize your Sales? Use the Yard Sale Treasure map. It uses Google Maps to display notes and information about the sales, and help you plan your route…
Quit Smoking with the D&D Method Recently, Godfather of Nerdcore Hip-Hop MC Frontalot decided to quite smoking. Again. To spice up the process, Front elected to use a standard D&D convention to help him gradually reduce his intake: the saving throw.” Read the rest of the story…Image by kirk lau via Flickr
Doctor Who special airs with cryptic clues about the future: “ Dark Horizons reports that the ‘Planet of the Dead,’ the first of four hour-long Doctor Who specials, aired in the United Kingdom on Saturday and pulled in 8.7 million viewers and also featured a cryptic prediction about what’s to come, which you can watch […]
I just found this, via Wikipedia, but MacWorld interviewed Alton Brown back in 2001.  If you are unfamiliar with Alton Brown, he’s one of the best Food Network stars, and probably best for his “Food Hacking”.  Q&A with Alton Brown  by Chris Rywalt, Macworld.com Alton Brown took a backward approach to finding fame as […]
Free Basic Roleplaying Quick-Start PDF: “I just found out that Chaosium is offering a free 32-page Quick-Start edition of their Basic Roleplaying system. To get your free copy, click here. Nice move by Chaosium in making this available. Keep with the freebies, game companies! We appreciate you for it! (Via RPG Blog II.)