Therianthropology

The timelines are particularly useful to prospective GMs and Players, wishing to fit werewolves and various other shape changers into their campaigns. Some of it is pretty useful for insertion as backgound material...and some of it can be quite goofy. You make the call.

Therianthropology

"Welcome to THERIANTHROPOLOGY 101. Here we hope to raise the awareness of the casual student as to the nature and history of the myriad shapeshifters that have walked, flown, swam, or crawled upon the surface of this Earth.

"At present, the resources offered are but meager. Therianthropology is a fledgling science, combining elements of Anthropology, Mythology, Cryptozoology, Parapsychology, and several studies of a more esoteric nature. Lycanthropology is but one of the disciplines a Therianthropologist may choose to specialize in, but it is considerably better accepted by modern society as a genuine science, as the Lycanthrope, or Werewolf, is by far the most well known 'Primal' in modern 'pop' culture."

The Secret Doctrines of the Assassins

An excellent resource for those wanting to use the historical Order of Assassins in their RPG Campaigns. I have used these guys and Thugees in games, since I tired of the ever present Ninja in games.

The Secret Doctrines of the Assassins

"Nothing is forbidden, Everything is Permitted."

Pulp Project1557

While it is known that I am not a fan of wikis...this site does seem to have some pretty good resources for Pulp Era gaming. Luckily, I don't have to wory about contributing to it. If you are a Pulp GM or Players, you should certainly check out this site for background material.

Pulp Project1557 (seedwiki.com)

Also, check out this site for historical maps of the NYC Subway system.

HIV virus deliberately created: Wangari Maathai

The Times of India

"Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, on Saturday reiterated her claim that the AIDS virus was a deliberately created biological agent." [Warning....pop-ups (but not so bad)]

WKMG-TV, Orlando

If this can't upstart a horror senario, I don't know what will....

Preserved Fetus In Medical Container Found At Mall

"A preserved human fetus was discovered inside a medical container Tuesday night in a mall parking lot in Orlando, Fla., according to Local 6 News."

Notice!

Just so you (whomever you are) know, apparently my blog crashed at some point in the night last night and the template disappeared. So, this morning I went to make a post and was faced with a blank page. *sigh* I picked a new look for the page (hope you like it...not that it really matters) with a little more color. Luckily I was able to grab a cached copy of the blog from Google so all of the links and the news banner, and etc. will slowly but surely make a return to the page.

Edit: At this point, I am pretty sure that I have recaptured everything from the old page. Thank for Google and its cache function. Welcome, or welcome back, to Dorkland. Please be sure to look around and check out any of the many sites that have been linked to from here. The "Dork Links" are my permanent links, semi-regularly tested to make sure that they are not broken. They are a number of different things, from websites of strangeness, to game company sites and designer blogs.

Autonomedia is a favorite site of mine, they publish the books that most publishers are afraid of. I got a copy of one of my favorite books from them a couple of months ago. T.A.Z. is a great resource for GMs, particularly those running a "dark future" or perhaps a "post apocalyptic" game. It is full of ideas that you will never find in an RPG supplement. I am going to utilize ideas from it for my upcoming Call of Cthulhu game.

Random Punk

Here's a nice blog that I found through the Fudge RPG mailing list. There has been a lot of talk on their about LiveJournal and Blogs, and using them for gaming. Personally, I prefer to go with blogs...they are fun and free. I like blogs that don't have an agenda to them, and yet manage to stick to a topic...which this one seems to do.

Random Punk

Building a blogging community, one blog at a time.

Monte Cook's LINE OF SIGHT

Roll on d100.

LINE OF SIGHT: "Internet Message Board Wandering Monster Table"

Steven Sladdin

An interesting blog. There are entries on synaesthesia and graffiti that are interesting. I have used graffiti in contemporary games as vevers and magical writing for ritualized spell-casting. Hopfully, they will be more active in their postings. Of course, they seem to put a bit more effort in their postings than I do.

Steven Sladdin

Dictionary of Victorian London

An excellent resource for the Victorian gamer and GM, particularly for Call of Cthulhu games. An incredibly well researched and worked out site that is part dictionary, part quote book, and part atlas. The very well scanned and highly detailed maps alone are worth checking out this site. However, the maps...due to their level of detail and quality are quite big, so downloading might be a pain if you have a low-speed connection. All in all, a very good site.

Dictionary of Victorian London - Victorian History - 19th Century London - Social History

The entire website is available from the site's creator as a CD-Rom, for only $25 for us Americans, a good potential investment just to have all of this stuff in one place. Many RPG supplements aren't this well thought/worked out.