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Oddities

American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse

An article in Wired, American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse, describes the Georgia Guidestones, a striking granite monument built by a secretive group, built as an astronomic compass/calendar / clock  and inscribed with a New-Age-ish message to the ages in 12 languages (8 modern: Swahili, Hindi, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, English, Hebrew and Arabic; 4 […]

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Comics long

Safat HaAvaddim

Chris Sim’s Invincible Super-blog is a celebration of the awesome daftness of comic books, in particular the awesome of superheroes punching each other in the face. Earlier this month, he ran a two-part retrospective on the appearances of Conan in the pages of Marvel’s What If…? series, which features alternate realities based on such burning […]

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Blather Oddities

Kate Bush!

Yep, I’m still revisiting teen enthusiasms. We know we can find bizzare retro rock videos on YouTube; well, speaking of bizzare and retro, apparently it’s filled with Kate Bush videos, clips, rare-rare appearances, all sorts of strange obscure bits from TV specials that I got to see only once in the days that the Third […]

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Blather

Burglarized

I got home, the door didn’t open proper with my key, I twisted it this way and that. For a second I’m worried that the stupid door stopped working and that I’m locked out, but eventually I work it open. Inside the cupboard drawer in the hall is out of place, the venetian mask that […]

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Roleplaying

Death in Sakkara – a BBC flash game

Death in Sakkara: An Egyptian Adventure is a flash game on the BBC web site, a detective game set during 1929, at the height of Egyptomania. Yes, a couple of clicks into the introductory scene, the book of Thoth gets name-dropped… I’ve posted various Egypt links before, from back when I researched my Victorian RPG […]