Some links from the last few days, to be organized, etc.
Updated to convert links to hypertext– the plaintext was annoying me.
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A collection of old links
Tons of old links to various threads, rpgs, etc. It’s all raw… but better than cramming it in a text folder on my hard drive. (Insert whistling here…)
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Lots of old links
The New York Times forcefully supports Kerry. (via Kevin Drum).
An attempt to legalize torture (sadly, seriously). Torture by Katherine at Obsidian Wings.
Voter registration scandal by Krugman, via Kevin Drum.
Projected Defecits (via Brad DeLong)
Synthesis article on GWB. (TAPPED)
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Scott birthday list 2005
Why Did the Chicken? (Play Again Games)
Competitions : Book Two of The Blending (Blending) by Sharon Green
Challenges : Book Three of The Blending (Blending)
Betrayals : Book Four of the Blending (Blending)
Prophecy : Book Five of The Blending (Blending)
Vinci (boardgame by Philippe Keyaerts from Eurogames / Descartes – USA, Inc.)
BuyWord (by Sid Jackson, Face to Face Games: Board Game)
Storm front (Book by Jim Butcher)
Monte Cook Presents: The Year’s Best d20 (RPG Book, Sword & Sorcery)
Shaye — “The Bridge” (Music CD)
Spirit of the Century (RPG by Evil Hat Productions)
For Sale (Card Game by Stefan Dorra, published by Uberplay)
Dress Shoes (Black, size 12, simple stylings)
Early American Chrononauts (Looney Labs Card Game)
Mage: The Awakening (RPG by White Wolf)
Keythedral (Keythedral by Richard Breese from Pro Ludo)
Polaris (RPG, online order– http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/products.php?publisherLink=tao)
Big Idea by Cheapass Games (Party Game)
White Dress Shirt (16 1/2 neck, short sleeve)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Speed of Dark (book by Elizabeth Moon)
With Great Power (RPG, Online Order– http://incarnadine.indie-rpgs.com/wgp-order.html)
Jinx High (book by Mercedes Lackey)
Carmen Dog (Book by Carol Emshwiller)
A good place to order boardgames online (if the local store fails you): http://www.housefullofgames.com/
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Politics
Big Picnic Leftie political satire site
Minimum wage and eitc Taken to task, explained.
Hindus vs. Homosexuals Comparing ethics and religion in our treatment
The Original Meaning of Judicial Review It goes back before Marbury v. Madison. 22 pages.
The Texas Miracle What happens when you mandate but don’t fund.
Conservative Bloggers A link to many sources, some of which made it to my blog list.
Blog for America Dean’s website
Structural Problems with America’s debt In depth, scary
Ballooning Defit? Trouble, particularly in long term structure.
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Music Links
Sarah McLachlan.com, The Sea of Waking Dreams (Sarah fansite)
Blastro Lots of Music videos
Amber’s website With much activity on her part.
Tar MacLean’s Multimedia Page Mostly “If I Fall” and interview clips
Tara MacLean – Can You Hear Me?
Someone You Should Know (live) Lisa Loeb preforming “Someone you should know”, live on the Rosie O’Donnel Show. (Link to the Lisa Loeb shrine)
Lisa Loeb Live Tail Lights Fade, Keep On Loving You, Guessing Games, etc.
Jessica Jacobs – Chapter 2 Net release CD (w/ 2 minute free clips)
Launchcast homepage Internet music
Artists without a Label A number of second tier artists
Half.com Their used music pages
Pollstar See which musicians are coming to town
CD Baby Lots of Indie Music
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Games Links
Board Games, Card Games, Mage, D&D, Misc RPGs
Full Thrust Fleet Registry good FT site, lots of ships
Board Games: Board Game Geek Excellent, communal game review (etc.) site Billabong Boardgamers Reviews and more for lots of board games. Links to board games particularly republic of rome On Line Game Night Java board games: Ra, Medici, E&T, etc. Addicting games java, etc. games Carcassone scoring updates (pdf) spotlight on games board game discussion/analysis Empire builder locking(more interactive), More EB variants Card Games: House of card games rules D&D Links: Adventures from Mysteria Basic D&D Adventures updated for 3E Quick reference sheets Cards for animals are great Medieval demographics Based on real world research. Here’s a D&D version: DnD demographics Tilesets , Cut & paste 3D Tiles EnWorld Lots of reviews and ‘up to the minute info’. DarkNexus Taraqual’s Mage An excellent rewrite of magic for Mage Biblioteca – Magic Items with cultural flavors, for Mage. Akashic stuff from 1st Edition Timewaster’s Guide to RPGs Many reviews and some articles Scene framing Detailed examples (from the forge) RPGMall Indie and small scale RPGs, Shadowrun Supplemental An eZine for Shadowrun Amber Variant Cool drama point variant for amber Orbit rpg Cool sci-fi, without endless tables Sorceror purchase page Sorcery & the Soul World Building Advice stuff to consider when building a world (by Patrica Wrede) Reverse RPG a marble allocation game Pretender free RPG, Otherkind based Future History A fun future history… similar in places to Trinity. Suspicious, no? National security decision making game Run at cons, etc. Deyrni.net Live Deryni chat- 2:30pm Sundays An excellent (semi) hard SF world: Big Ideas, Grand Vision RPG Times A good RPG zine, devoted more to online roleplaying
GMT Games Board game manufacturers, based in Hanford. Makers of Manfiest Destiny.
Arumo d20 World Setting
Ancient Worlds Cool styles of magic for d20!
Dragon Scale Counters A cheap, full scale alternative to minis. Sit flat.
total cross system storyteller
General Roleplaying
Role Call The most current Q&A (similar to GameWISH)
RPG Now Mass RPG seller
ROMANCING CATHAY Wonderful Zine devoted to China’s Warring State period
Ars Magica 4th ed free pdf
Star Trek – Decipher’s page
Valkerie Quarterly a british RPG magazine
CRITICAL MISS Lots of whacked articles
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Books Links
What I read on my summer vacation My reviews and notes on various books, Library Books Database
Fresno Library Yes, it’s always handy to have around.
SF Bookcase My favorite of the book review sites
SFSite.com Trendy, current book reviews
Poetry.com Used to be my homepage, though I visit it only rarely now
Bartelby.com Indexed poems (the famous ones at least)
The Velveteen Rabbit Full text of the traditional children’s story
SF books , All books Book reviews by Susan
The Onion Mock newspaper, usually quite funny
A blog for writers focussing on the craft. Interesting beginning– writing a credo.
Project Gutenberg Books which have passed out of copywrite, typed in and retrievable.
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Unsorted Links
Return to sender comic (updated mondays)
Velcometer
A INTERESTING BLOG
Actor/Picture Galleries: Student Movie Database , LA Stars
Bandwith Comics Cool animated comic
Jet Wolf’s Heart of the Flames
Universal Currency Converter Exchange rates the easy way
Brainwashing America An opinion piece on current passivity
Britney’s Guide to Semiconductor Physics Exactly what it sounds like. Be very afraid.
Avalon high: comic end of run
Wolf Pack Phone Support horror stories! (Very funny)
How Suff Works Excellent, easily comprehensible explanations for everything.
Government in specific
Photojournalism Beautiful amazonian (etc.) photos
Scaled Starships Accurately Scaled starships from many shows
Timelines (from many movies, tv shows, etc.)
Paleothea Gallery: Women in greek myth
Nodwick A comic from Dragon Magazine
Lazy writer’s character questionaire
twin towers as a badly run d&d game
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Linkie Goodness – HTML, CSS, etc
Separated out 8/18/2003
Lissa Explains it All Excellent HTML (and more) site.
HTML Goodies HTML/PERL, ETC. PRIMERS
Brainjar HTML & CSS advice. Pretty academic.
Glish.com Good CSS stuff
Jalfrezi HTML, etc. design site
Infimum slants, cool borders, and other html tricks
javascript// notes
Basic Templates basic javascript
more javascript
javascript generators awesome