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1. What is the first RPG you ever played?
AD&D circa 1986

2. What RPG do you currently play most often?
7th Sea

GOP adds anti-abortion clause to spending bill.

Oh, and for thessalian a Worth 1000 on hockey.

Colon Powel (Defense Secretary resigns to go along with attorney general John Ashcroft, Ann Venneman, the agriculture secretary, Rod Paige, the education secretary, and Spencer Abraham, the energy secretary. So, what is going on? Is he going to replace…

In other news — no, no, no (says I. The United Nations will likely decide Friday whether to vote on an international cloning ban. I’m betting the majority of people voting…

Really interesting article in the Guardian about China and how it’s adapting to capitalism mixed with communism.

Perhaps the most interesting part is the section on how it has lent billions and billions of dollars to the US which the US citizens have then used to… But Chinese goods…

I suppose I should also say that the insanely delayed issue two of Still Flying is now available.

Feeling the election blues. Not just me then.

Winston Churchill once said “In a democracy the people get the government they deserve”.

UK Foriegn Secretary says war with Iran is inconceivable. You heard it here first — remember the date.

What do you get when you cross Dance Dance Revolution with World of Warcraft? Just about the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages.

Maybe I should get out more…? ;-)

Oh — and if anyone knows who the music is in the “undead bit” please let me know — thanks.

Our old friends the RIAA have decided that they can interpret the so-called “Betamax Law” to say that you must delete any recorded show once you’ve watched it. They’re also back on again about wanting to control what you can record on your PC or any other device. Link.

US troops storm Baghdad mosque and open fire on worshippers. How does this not get on the main news?

Thessalian said:

> And so Kerry and his bunch feel they have no choice but to fade gently away into political 
> obscurity…

The history of “Thanksgiving”.

US veterans in trouble for telling high school children what war is really like.

Chief economist at investment banking giant Morgan Stanley predicts in private that American has a 1 in 10 chance of avoiding economic meltdown.

Snippets from the article:

• To finance its current account deficit with the rest of the world, he said…

Some American’s say they’re sorry. Imagine the volumes of hate mail they must get.

Prospective GOP Okalhoma Senetor Tom Coburn has said since the election — “I favor the death penalty for abortionists and other people who take life.”

Interesting article on how it’s not even script writers or spin doctors who will be specifying what politians say in the future but professional language experts who will construct speaches in a way that makes it almost a logical impossibility to disagree with what’s being said.

The EU is ramping up its bid for the ITER (next generation test fusion reactor). Best quote from /. is “With the cost of Iraq war draining at about $1.5B per week, it roughly takes 1 month of war for 1 reactor, in monetary terms”. Since the war is mostly about oil the monetary logical is severly…

I got some copies of the new Still Flying photocopied up — looks quite good in dead-tree-edition.

Cheque off parents for no appearent reason, can’t complain.

Got interview for job next week. Since I only got it through personal recomendation this may well…

Four legs good, two legs better… The US forces in Iraq are now counting on ex-Saddam sepcial forces to be the core of the all-new Iraqi army and police force.

So funny — Microsoft caught with illegal copryright software in Windows XP.

thessalian said:

{About the Star Wars III trailer}

> Seriously, the last thing you think of when you think of George Lucas is cheap special effects

One for the Brits. The BBC is finally “cancelling” TotP.

10 years in jail if you’re caught tampering with the soon-to-be British national ID database. NB — you’d get less for rape.

From Neil Gaiman’s Blog:

The right-wing agenda continues. Pharmacists refuse to give our birth control. I’m all for people having their own moral values but isn’t this breach of contract? Like joining the army and then saying “oh, btw, it’s morally wrong to kill people”…

John Hostettler, the Congressman representing the 8th district of Indiana, has been convinced by local religious groups to introduce legislation in the House that would change the name of an…

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Saw an advert for my ideal job today secure in the knowledge that I am in no way qualified or experienced to do it. Reminds me that I have to either kunckle-down and retrain myself in what is current in IT and compete with people 10 years younger than me for jobs that pay less than what I earn now or consign…

The Pope says have more sex.

Boing Boing cut/paste:

Molly wrote in to say:
“As a Texan, I’d like to repeat the words of Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks and say that I’m embarrassed to that Bush is from Texas. And yes, the country really is stupid, and…

Sarah Michelle Geller slags off Joss Whedon in this interview about creative control of Buffy towards the end (ie she had none). No wonder she was phoning it in by the end of season seven. Someone should get her to look up “actress” in the dictionary and the “director”. Joss basically gave her…

It’s 4am. My sleep patterns are fucked. I’ve been on vacation since Tuesday and I think I’ve slept about 40 hours since then. As least I’m not feeling so “grumpy” now as thessalian put it earlier but that’s mostly due to filling my brain with distractions. It’s very easy to loose a couple of hours by…