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Originally uploaded by Alhazred.

From my recent visit back home to Cape Town.

Dungeons and dragons course, flickr photos o' the day

A Dungeons and Dragons course at 'Barnes & Noble University' - barnesandnoble.com
As a beginning player, this course will guide you in understanding how D&D works, explaining the various worlds and characters types that it is based on, creating a D&D role for yourself, and understanding how your player role interacts in the world and with other characters. You will learn the extent of your abilities and the possibilities that lie ahead for your player, including magical spells, mythic quests, and epic battles with incredible monsters.

Favourite flickr photos of the day:

Karoo windmill

Some great cosplay photos from stormstill.

Multnomah Libraries, News Quiz, et al

Multnomah County Libraries: we're no. 2! - publicbroadcasting.net
Multnomah library spokeswoman, June Mikkelson, says the ranking reflected the whopping 19 million items checked out from late 2004 to 2005... "It certainly is one of the chief driving factors, in fact, Multnomah County libraries' circulation is the highest in the United States."
I've certainly found the library darn useful, especially the time that our computer went belly up. The library's online catalog is here.

African news quiz - ethanzuckerman.com
I only got 6/10

Flickr photos of the day:

Rhamncwa aka Middle Finga

DSC_0055 (not sure where this is)

Sturgeons Law - seems right to me. - wikipedia.org
...The professor read a few selected passages of "purple prose" from popular science fiction works, and declared "90% of this Science Fiction is crap." Sturgeon replied "90% of everything is crap."
Yup, that seems about right. I'm surprised that I haven't heard of this one before.

Darwin stickers! Annoying baby names! More!

Darwin has a posse stickers - swathmore.edu
These stickers are being introduced to spread awareness and appreciation of Charles Darwin, whose theory of natural selection provided a simple, non-supernatural explanation for how life on earth had evolved and continues to evolve today. Although this stickering project is probably futile, it will hopefully delay our slip into Dark Ages II by several days....



Site recommendation: bigbadbabynames.
Tryndee baby names like: Skylark, Dreighzdyn, Nevaeh, Blaiden, Jour'Dyn and others.


Favourite flickr photos of the day: Mysterious Cowboy, River Mouth

A chimpanzee?

In the Opinion issued in USA vs Hammer (US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania):
Dr. Sadoff further testified that Mr. Hammer has four alter personalities: (1) Jocko, a violent personality, (2) Tammy, a female personality, (3) Wilbur, a child personality and (4) Jasper, a chimpanzee.

Crucified nun, no more ITAX.

Crucified nun dies of adrenalin overdose - religionnewsblog.com
Cornici was chained to a cross, gagged and deprived of food and water for several days at the remote monastery in June. Authorities had maintained the treatment proved fatal and she was already dead when other nuns called for an ambulance... But the new autopsy, carried out after the nun's body was exhumed in September, showed that she died after a medic in the ambulance injected her with six doses of adrenalin which over-stimulated her heart, causing it to fail.


The hated Multonomah County ITAX ends this year! - publicbroadcasting.net

Portland Communique: editor's coda

The Portland Communique was, in my opinion, one of the best blogs out there. In this final post, the editor writes of his problems trying to be a full-time blogger. It's a thoughtful and informative post.