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Wizards Community - The Dungeonomicon

"The Socialomicon: Heroes in the Greek Sense:
'Can I kill the baby kobolds?'

When people are asked to name a historical point that D&D most closely represents, they'll usually say something like 'The Middle Ages', or perhaps a date between 1000 AD and 1500 in Europe. Truth be told, to find a historical period which has a social setup anything like D&D, you're going to have to go back. Way back. D&D represents a period in history that is most closely identifiable with the Iron Age: the landscape is dotted with tribes and aspiring empires, the wilderness is largely unexplored, and powerful individuals and small groups can take over an area without having a big geopolitical hubbub about it.

The source material for the social setting of D&D is not Hans Christian Andersen, it's Homer's The Iliad and Caesar's The Gallic Wars. In the backdrop of early historical empire building, crimes that modern humans shake their heads at the barbarity of are common place – even among the heroes. D&D at its core is about breaking into other peoples' homes, possibly killing the residents, and taking their stuff home with you in a sack. And in the context of the period, that is acceptable behavior for a hero." (lots more) Wizards Community - The Dungeonomicon

Digg Drop - Cartoon index full length episodes

Digg Drop

Like your broke stoner friend in college, Bernanke hits us up for another quarter - FARK.com: (2146013)

Great fake headline.

FARK.com: (2146013) Like your broke stoner friend in college, Bernanke hits us up for another quarter: "Like your broke stoner friend in college, Bernanke hits us up for another quarter"

Borat on Yahoo! Movies

Borat on Yahoo! Movies

play free online flash game Training targets

play free online flash game Training targets

The History of the Devil

You'll never get any respect with that fake plastic pitchfork, dude.

This massive work on the history of evil, particularly as symbolized by the Christian devil, was written on the cusp of the 20th century by Paul Carus, who wrote such other books as 'Buddha, the Gospel'.

At that point in history it seemed apparent that evil would soon be eliminated by the onrushing forces of rationalism and modernism. The devil had been reduced to a literary character, always ready to make a silly bargain for a soul. This trivialized image is perpetuated to this day. Satan in the cinema is either represented as a hideous special effect or a comic, bumbling trickster. Long gone is the noble adversary of Jehovah, as portrayed in the Bible, Milton or Dante.

However, the 20th century brought total war; genocide; death camps; nuclear, biological and chemical weapons; mind control; double-speak; ecological destruction; and finally indiscriminant mass terror. Evil was back and it was unmistakable. No wonder that opinion polls in the United States show that a large proportion of the population believe in the existence of the devil. (more)

The History of the Devil Index

God shall remain barred from dungeon - Turkish Daily News Jun 14, 2006

" Culture and Tourism Minister Atilla Koç said on Tuesday that a sign to the entrance of Bodrum Castle's dungeon stating Where God Does Not Exist in Latin would remain in place.

Newspapers on Tuesday criticized a Culture and Tourism Ministry decision to order the removal of what was thought to be a 500-year-old sign.

While notices pointing to the dungeon have already been removed, officials were wondering how they can remove the Latin words Inde deus abest, which are carved in stone.

Koç, speaking at a press conference, said investigations had revealed the sign had no archeological value, adding that a new commission would be sent to the castle this week to confirm those findings.

He also said the translation of the Inde Deus Abest was not correct, either, claiming that it actually means God is far from here." (more) God shall remain barred from dungeon - Turkish Daily News Jun 14, 2006

YouTube - lol (video of retards in thongs on motorbikes) video

YouTube - lol

US TV network to air game events

"US satellite TV company DirecTV has signed a deal with the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) to broadcast a series of video game events.

Pro-players that qualify for the CPL's Winter tournament will be the first to have their battles broadcast to 15 million DirecTV subscribers.

CPL founder Angel Munoz said the deal would help establish e-sports as a serious pastime.

The news comes as another broadcaster prepares a dedicated gaming channel." (more) BBC NEWS | Technology | US TV network to air game events

News Bloopers (embed video)

The moment at 1:28 in the clip made me laugh oh so hard. Juvenile, but funny.

News Bloopers

YouTube - KEN ISHII VS FLR - SPACE INVADERS 2003

'Space Invaders' from the alien's point of view. I likey.



YouTube - KEN ISHII VS FLR - SPACE INVADERS 2003

emotion lotion! magnet that states "I've got a five inch taint"

emotion lotion!

DevilDucky - Wonder Showzen: Aunt Flo (embed video)

A young girl discovers the joy of entering womanhood. From Wonder Showzen.

DevilDucky - Wonder Showzen: Aunt Flo

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Borat: The Movie Trailer

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Psycho complains to city about 'rogue heliocopter pilot' (embed video)

That was one of the best freaked-out, spazzy, angry public displays of emotion I've seen in a while.

glumbert.com | media | Psycho complains to city about 'rogue heliocopter pilot'

Computer 'Beings' Evolve as Society - Discovery Channel

"Millions of computer-generated entities that live and die by natural selection could reveal how our own culture and language evolve.

The software agents are part of a project called NEW TIES (New and Emergent World Models Through Individual, Evolutionary, and Social Learning), which draws on the expertise of five European research institutions to push computer simulation of artificial worlds further than ever before." (more) Discovery Channel :: News :: Computer 'Beings' Evolve as Society

Origins of the @ Sign @ Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech

"Let’s go back to the 6th or 7th century. Latin scribes tried to save a little effort by shortening the Latin word ad (at, to, or toward) by stretching the upstroke of “d” and curving it over the “a”.

Italian researchers unearthed 14th-century documents, where the @ sign represented a measure of quantity. The symbol also appeared in a 15th-century Latin-Spanish dictionary, defined as a gauge of weight, and soon after—according to ancient letters—was referenced as an amphora, a standard-sized clay vessel used to carry wine and grain." (full story) Origins of the @ Sign @ Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech

Friday web zen: crafty zen

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Willard Wigan :: Micro Sculptor

Amazing. Check out the link for more incredible and tiny sculptures.

"When you view these works, you're entering a new world that is yours for that moment. Looking inward is engaging the soul and leads to peace"

Willard Wigan :: Micro Sculptor

Dog sex gone way wrong - Hedonistica

HAHAHHAHAAAA! So funny.... so wrong. Watch all the way to the end for the haha. I guess it might be NSFW, but I laughed oh so hard at the outcome.

Hedonistica - Pleasure Yourself

weddingbetting.com - BETTING ON THE WORLD WIDE WED

"A NEW website allows meanies to take a punt on how long its featured newly-weds will stay married.

Photographs of happy couples are put up and visitors to weddingbetting.com can cast a vote on their future.

Alongside their picture is a brief synopsis about them and the options for your prediction: barely past the altar, one year, five years, eight years, 15 years or happily ever after.

The site logs the number of votes on each partnership and then lists percentages on whether or not the couple will get divorced.

If there's a high chance of divorce, according to votes, then the site states the time period before they may end the marriage.

Thousands are logging on to the site to take part." The Daily Record - NEWS - BETTING ON THE WORLD WIDE WED

Special forces to use strap-on 'Batwings' | the Daily Mail

Heh hee.... Strap On.

"Elite special forces troops being dropped behind enemy lines on covert missions are to ditch their traditional parachutes in favour of strap-on stealth wings.

The lightweight carbon fibre mono-wings will allow them to jump from high altitudes and then glide 120 miles or more before landing - making them almost impossible to spot, as their aircraft can avoid flying anywhere near the target." (more)

Special forces to use strap-on 'Batwings' | the Daily Mail

They're going to blow up our poop - Washington Whispers: Quotes from Politics

“They’re going to blow up our poop.”

Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island Republican, mocking a Democratic plan to protect sewage plants from terrorists

“I am apologizing as abjectly as I can. There is no excuse for it. It was beyond dumb.”

New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi, on his earlier comment during a college commencement on the possibility of New York Sen. Charles Schumer being capable of putting “a bullet between the president’s eyes, if he could get away with it”

“I can’t do the pedicure thing yet. I haven’t crossed that bridge, psychologically or any other way. Besides, my toes don’t show up in public much.”

Rep. Gary Ackerman, New York Democrat, who likes to show off his manicured nails, but won’t consider having his toes done

“The key is to get members to drink wine to be bipartisan.”

Rep. Henry Waxman, California Democrat, describing the benefits of congressional wine tastings

Sources: Providence Journal, WNBC, Roll Call, Washington Post

USNews.com: Washington Whispers