Peiratikos

D&D for Dummies: I'm almost tempted to get it. What could be in it?

WordPress 1.5: The biggest changes are easy-to-use themes (no more hacking the default WordPress files to change your blog's look) and amazing comment moderation and spam prevention. WordPress users, make sure to upgrade if you haven't already.

Debating Iron Council: A bunch of essays about China Miéville's books, with a lengthy response from Miéville.

Superhuman Genealogy: An explanation for the advent of superhumans (in some strange collective-unconscious fanficworld that encompasses the Marvel and DC universes, Star Trek, Stephen King novels, and everything else), the origin being Clark Kent, whose Kryptonian DNA spread through blood transfusions during his service in World War I. Brilliant madness!

Lego Cultural Theorists: The Lego Michel Foucault comes with a Parisian library for younger children, or with the Lego San Fransisco Dungeon for older boys and girls.

Purple USA: Lots of purple states, a few almost-red states. No blues.

Man says live wire in bath was to save marriage: "LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (AP) -- A man who said he threw a live electrical wire into his wife's bath hoping a near-death experience would save their marriage was convicted of attempted first-degree intentional homicide Wednesday."

William Gibson returns to blogging: "Because the United States currently has, as Jack Womack so succintly puts it, a president who makes Richard Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln. And because, as the Spanish philospher Unamuno said, 'At times, to be silent is to lie.'"

The Ultimate Silence: "Six years ago today, Matthew Shepard was murdered for being homosexual."

Amazingly crazy animal photos: beautiful but weird farm animals and owners