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Sir Fred Hoyle, popular opponent

Sir Fred Hoyle, popular opponent of ‘Big Bang’ theory, dead at 86 [from CNN, via Boojie]

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John Kim, maintainer of various

John Kim, maintainer of various rec.games.frp.advocacy FAQs and links, has some interesting material on his campaigns (as well as plenty of RPG theory), including this Ripper Game, a non-mythos Call of Cthulhu game set during the Ripper murders, which also features a William Blake Tarot (kewl!).

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How Many Jews Did Hitler

How Many Jews Did Hitler Kill?, By William Markiewicz – The author speculates that Jews were much more prevalant in Europe before WWII then the official records show. I found the whole article evocative and filled with thought-provoking bits, from the line about Alexander’s Jewish Archers, to the bit about Frankists converting to Catholicism and adopting surnames based on the months of the year (like Mars and December).