Monday, April 26, 2004

Whatever happened to Dungeons and Dragons?

BBC NEWS: Whatever happened to Dungeons and Dragons?

"In the 1980s millions of teenagers world-wide would battle dragons armed with just a few dice, paper and pens. D&D became part of youth sub-culture but as the game celebrates its 30th birthday - is anyone still playing? "

Thursday, April 15, 2004

Twenty Questions

So, you play twenty questions with a computer and it gets smarter. I remember playing this with that computer at the Museum of Science and Industry as a kid...

Twenty Questions

Friday, April 09, 2004

VillainSupply.com

VillainSupply.com [via Jon Nichols]

Long Dream / Nagai yume

Long Dream / Nagai yume

"After the enormous critical and public success in 2000 of Uzumaki, based on Junji Ito's tour-de-force horror manga series and directed by the frankly astonishing Higuchinsky, it seemed pretty inevitable that the two forces who brought us that stunning movie should work together again. And in the same year of Uzumaki's release, lucky Japanese TV viewers got to witness their second joint project, Long Dream (aka Nagai yume), a short movie commissioned for TV." [via Jason Hyde]

Howard Stern Broadcast Triggers $495,000 FCC Fine

Be warned, the link is not for the faint of heart. You know, I have issues with attempts to protect this sort of thing under the First Amendment. This really isn't what the creators of our Constitution had in mind when they drafted the Bill of Rights.

Howard Stern Broadcast Triggers $495,000 FCC Fine

"In another broadside at Howard Stern, the Federal Communications Commission today fined Clear Channel Communications a whopping $495,000 for last year's broadcast of an allegedly indecent bit on the King of All Media's popular radio program."

Eyeball jewelry a new Dutch fashion trend

EEeeeeWWwwwwwW!

Eyeball Jewelry

"AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Body piercing and tattoos make way. The latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewelry."

Monday, April 05, 2004

Romanian villagers decry police investigation into vampire slaying

Romanian villagers decry police investigation into vampire slaying

"MAROTINU DE SUS, Romania - Before Toma Petre's relatives pulled his body from the grave, ripped out his heart, burned it to ashes, mixed it with water and drank it, he hadn't been in the news much."

Friday, April 02, 2004

Pulp E-Texts

Pulp E-Texts

"Welcome to the Online Pulps site. The purpose of this site is to provide a wide selection of stories from the pulps. Here you will find stories from nearly every genre...detective, science ficton, adventure, romance, western, weird menace, sports, aviation, and even finance! "

The Bookshelf

The Bookshelf

"Here, we will be presenting the great works of genre fiction: first in serialized form and then as complete editions. Think of this as a virtual lending library, except you don't need a library card and the books never have to be returned. They are free for your online enjoyment, or can be downloaded for later reading."

Bob's Secret Page

Bob's Secret Page

"Pulp Figures and Rugged Adventures are primarily designed for a fictionalized historical setting we call the 'Pulp Era'. The pulps were entertainment magazines of the early 20th century and reached their peak of popularity in the period between the first and second world wars."

Friends of Arthur Machen Homepage

Who was Arthur Machen?

Police Files Detail Kurt Cobain Suicide - April 1, 2004

Police Files Detail Kurt Cobain Suicide - April 1, 2004

"APRIL 1--With the tenth anniversary of Kurt Cobain's suicide days away, below you'll find an assortment of Seattle Police Department documents compiled during the investigation of the grunge star's April 1994 death.
The chilling records range from reports from the first officer on the scene to the receipt for the shotgun Cobain, 27, bought a week before his death. A second group of police reports detail previous run-ins Cobain and wife Courtney Love had with the local cops."