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."