Gamers respond to “Pray for Obama” meme November 20, 2009
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The Christian Science Monitor reports a fundamentalist campaign urging people through bumper stickers and t-shirts to “pray for Obama”, citing Psalm 109:8. The joke is that the verse in question reads, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” The problem is that the next line is, “Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow,” leading some to interpret it as a coded message for “I hope the president dies.”
(For the record, I’m pretty sure that if it were meant to be a coded death wish, it would have read “Psalm 109:8-19″.)
But Mike Selinker and Corey Macourek have another, even more compelling message to share with the world:
Once again the “pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd” is summoned to civic duty. Citizen! At this critical juncture in history, can you afford NOT to game?
The Raising Arizona soundtrack makes everything better. November 16, 2009
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Experience History: Berlin 1961-1989 November 5, 2009
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Flickr has created a Photo Pool to commemorate the upcoming 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Flickr users who have photos from that period stowed away somewhere, are invited to share them.
Such a strange, strange time.
Gabe turns Halloween and craft items into an awesome dungeon October 23, 2009
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Penny Arcade’s Mike Krahulik does some very clever things for his regular Dungeons and Dragons game, both conceptually and in terms of stagecraft. Here, he sends his party on an adventure modeled on quests from World of WarCraft, on a game board built using craft materials such as LED tea lights, Halloween spiderwebs, plastic toys and shiny trinkets.
Obi Wan has an opinion about Mos Eisley October 19, 2009
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Bre Pettis: If you aren’t doing something obsessive October 18, 2009
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I’m not saying to quit your job and start an iPhone app company to connect people, although there are lots of people doing that successfully. I’m saying that if you aren’t doing something obsessive that connects you to a community in addition to your normal daily grind, then you are giving pony rides while the trains rush past.
Countdown to Moon explosion: 14 hours, 26 minutes October 8, 2009
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Moon explodes Friday morning. Bring your telescope and watch it at Cal Anderson Park, Seattle. http://bit.ly/khmoh
Remaking Star Wars, 15 seconds at a time October 8, 2009
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