Monthly Archives: December 2004

Open Directory Project: almost altruistic

The Open Directory Project: The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. Anyone can be an editor of a subcategory of the catalog, making small edits, refusing bad submissions and so on. I noted that the Swedish role-playing game [...]
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Whiteout: Las Vegas

Finnish RPG author and columnist Juhana writes about my game in his log: I’ve often had the opportunity to lobby for roleplaying games as viable culture and art with culture officials and artists. Sadly, what I’ve tended to lack is anything worth presenting. I’m not going to offer fantasy schlock or WoD juvenilia, because the audience [...]
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CIA chief gadget geek?

Since 24 sep this year we have a new CIA chief: Porter J. Goss. The mini-bio tells us he has “clocked some field time”: Mr. Goss was a U.S. Army Intelligence officer from 1960 to 1962. He served as a clandestine service officer with the Central Intelligence Agency from 1962 until 1972, when an illness contracted [...]
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CIA people about themselves

On the CIA web page, in the careers section, one can find weird discourse, from an organization that wants recruits: KATHY: I heard about the Agency during a College Career Fair. Although many other positions sounded intriguing, I was drawn to the idea of living overseas and serving as a collector of intelligence. After receiving extensive training, [...]
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Spike doll?

A plastic doll of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer character. For adults. (Ok, not those images in my head, thank you.) I mean, an action figure. People collect these. And pay great money for them.
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FIGlet – ASCII heaven

“FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text”. If you have ever seen .nfo files distributed with cracked games, you have probably seen the “large letters”. In the past these letters were an art form spawned by the limitations of the terminal, and with the BBS’es it got big, cool and popular. [...]
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I am the Nordic Contact Relations Guy

Denmark’s greatest role-playing game convention is Fastaval, hands down. I just penned an article about it, for the Swedish role-playing game magazine Sverox, expounding its greatness. When I was done with the article, I contacted the man in charge of the coming Fastaval, and volunteered to be the con’s **Nordic Contact**. More international-oriented cons, and most [...]
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Weather Dude: Meteorology made simple for kids, parents and teachers!

Weather Dude: Meteorology made simple for kids, parents and teachers. What a web we have! The guy has songs, educational songs, that “teach” kids about the weather. Love it.
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Konsumentverket rocks

Konsumentverket in Sweden lets you blow the whistle on spammers. Du som har en e-postadress har säkert fått e-postreklam som du inte har beställt. Sådan reklam, som du fått från och med den 1 april, kan du anmäla till Konsumentverket/KO genom att använda vårt formulär. In English: “You who have an email address have surely received email [...]
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