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Back in 1991, Grenda and I ran a weekend-long game of Ravenloft. We ran it as the "Dreams of Barovia" variant that combined adventure modules I6 and I10. He was the DM for I6 Ravenloft and I was the DM for I11 Ravenloft II: House on Gryphon Hill. It was a lot of fun to be honest, the problem was I forgot to tell my roommates and girlfriend where I …

Now that fires in Southern California have ravaged a land area equivalent of three Manhattans, at least 27 people have been killed. Several homes by Richard Neutra, Gregory Ain, Eric Owen The post <em>AN</em> rounds up mutual aid and relief efforts by architects in wake of Southern California fires appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

In her 2008 memoir, A Freewheelin’ Time, Suze Rotolo described how Bob Dylan, her boyfriend between 1961 and 1964, developed his look. Apparently it was Dave Van Ronk, a slightly older Greenwich Village folkie, who urged the 21-year-old Dylan to start paying attention to his image. In Rotolo’s words: “Such things might have been talked about in jest, but in truth they were taken quite seriously. Much time was spent …

brilliant free Minesweeper-inspired roguelike by Daniel Benmergui #

Like all nerds, I revere Brian Eno. When MusicRadar asked for a column about him, I jumped on it. They wanted something about his generative music, and Music For Airports was the obvious choice. While I was researching, I learned that a couple of airports had tried playing the album in the terminals, and that it had not gone over well. With a little reflection, this is not surprising. Who …

We’re thrilled to be collaborating with Qing Wang and Adam Tooze to publish articles from Phenomenal World in translation as a new column on Chartbook’s Chinese edition. First up is Andrew Elrod’s essay on Bidenomics and the tectonic forces arranged around US tax and fiscal policy. Read the WeChat post. Follow along at Chartbook China. The post Phenomenal World partners with Chartbook China appeared first on Jain Family Institute.

1. “If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But by all means, keep moving.” 2. “Why would Kim Jong Un insult me by calling me ‘old,’ when I would NEVER call him ‘short and fat’? Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend — and maybe someday that will happen!” 3. “An individual has not started living …

VPNs are having a moment. On January 1st, Florida joined 18 other states in implementing an age verification law that burdens Floridians' access to sites that host adult content, including pornography websites like Pornhub. In protest to these laws, PornHub blocked access to users in Florida. Residents in the “Free State of Florida” have now lost access to the world's most popular adult entertainment website and 16th-most-visited site of any …

(SOUND FIXED): Oasis (Karl Jenkins) https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/nucleus_oasis_well-talk-about-it-later_vertigo-1971_6360027_ljc.mp3 . . . Apologies, first post had a missing sound link, now fixed, also, Harry M photos of Nucleus added, at Collector’s Corner – LJC Track List A1 Song For The Bearded Lady (Jenkins) 7:22A2 Sun Child (Clyne, Marshall) 5:16A3 Lullaby For A Lonely Child (Jenkins) 4:21A4 We’ll Talk About It Later (Jenkins) 6:13B1 Oasis (Jenkins) 9:44B2 Ballad Of Joe Pimp (Carr, Clyne) 3:45B3 …

The term “cold email” refers to emailing someone who you’ve never spoken to before. There are lots of guides on writing cold emails. This one is a bit niche, as it’s about cold emailing a particular person: me. But I guarantee you that it’s the best guide you can find on this hyperspecific topic. I’m publishing my guidelines under the Creative Commons BY-4.0 license, so you’re welcome to reuse or …

News Silo Silo Season 3 Sees Ashley Zuckerman and Jessica Henwick Join Cast The new additions might be from a time before the silo was put in place… By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on January 17, 2025 Photo by Gage Skidmore licensed uder CC BY-SA 2.0 Comment 0 Share New Share Silo Season 3 Sees Ashley Zuckerman and Jessica Henwick Join Cast&url=https://reactormag.com/silo-season-3-sees-ashley-zuckerman-and-jessica-henwick-join-cast/” target=”_blank” title=”Twitter”> Silo Season 3 Sees Ashley Zuckerman …

Who did I listen to most this week? #lastfm says: Peter Gabriel (64), Kate Bush (45), Glaring (35), Phase Fatale (29) & The Soft Moon (19) [via lastweekly]

During that same fateful spring of 1521 which brought triumph followed by death to Ferdinand Magellan in the Philippines, his adopted liege Charles was grappling with problems of his own half a world away. For Charles’s new kingdom of Spain was then in the closing stages of a brief but terrifying civil war. A year earlier, the city of Toledo, in the heart of old Castille, had instigated a rebellion …

Hello, and welcome to 2025. Is it that time already? The possessive apostrophe (or rather, the abuse of the possessive apostrophe) is a recurrent guest star here at Shady Characters, but usually in the English language. Recently, though, the Guardian reported that unneeded apostrophes are infecting German, too. The so-called Deppenapostroph, or “idiot’s apostrophe”, appears when a German-language expression uses it to indicate a possessive — despite the fact that …