by podblack on December 3, 2008
From Wikipedia: Michael A. Stackpole (born 1957) is a science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and Battletech books… From 1977 on, he worked as a designer of role-playing games for various gaming companies, and wrote dozens of magazine articles for the industry. During this time, in response to the accusations [...]
by podblack on October 2, 2008
Domestic Father blog wants to let everyone know that he’s setting up a new blog carnival for skeptical parenting blogs. As he writes himself: ‘Hopefully, it’s not just the skeptical parenting bloggers who will contribute, but some of the less parent focused, and more skep/secular/humanist generalists.‘ I think that’s wonderful and very inclusive. So, without [...]
by podblack on September 6, 2008
Things to remember when you stop off in Auckland, en route home from Dragon*Con: 1) Doing all of your laundry in one fell swoop will end up having you wear what’s left over in your luggage. For me, that’s a split miniskirt, knee high boots, Skeptic Track shirt and a little tuxedo-style jacket. No, I’m [...]
by podblack on August 30, 2008
Right now, I’m typing whilst sitting on the floor of the conference room for the Skeptic Track. Although the program says that Alison Smith should be presenting, it’s actually Ben Radford, talking about ‘Medium’ and the NBC website providing false information about the biography of Allison DuBois, which they later took down off their pages [...]
by gazza666 on July 14, 2008
The following post is for On The Shoulders of Giants — if you’re interested, my earlier entry is here! Traditional board games (such as chess, checkers, Scrabble, Parcheesi) have involved no role-playing on the part of the players, and some have involved a very minimum amount of role-playing within a board setting (such as Monopoly, [...]
