So… the BBC have licenced a tabletop Doctor Who Roleplaying Game. The company – Cubicle 7 – are based in London and have a couple of games under their belt. So far so good. Best news? They’re looking for playtesters. I’ll see the five of you that are interested over in their forums. 🙂

Tagged by Helen. So here are five things about me which other people might think lame, but which make me who I am. 1) I cry at sad stories. Including but not limited to Casualty last Saturday, and the sad song that Jessie sings in Toy Story 2 about how people grow up and grow […]

Play computer games? Take a look at this. (It’s a directory. Clicky on the files, then come back here when you’re done.) What you’re looking at is the very first adventure game. More specifically, its DNA. When you compile those files on a PDP-10 (an old mainframe computer, back from the days when men were […]

I don’t believe in God. Any of ’em. This is based on a lifetime of experience. Specifically, evidence of God in the world. To wit: there isn’t any. There’s lots of people saying their God’s the right one, but actual evidence? Well, not so much. You’d think that if there was a big fella in […]

You may have read recently about the problem with Socks. The basic story goes like this: The BBC ran an online poll to choose the name of the new Blue Peter cat. The name Socks was winning until the end, when there was a sudden burst of support for Cookie. A decision was made to […]

Jared von Hindman has gone to the trouble of finding D&D’s stupidest monsters ever.

I was out during my lunch hour yesterday when I happened to pass an outpost of the Church of Scientology. And they were offering free stress tests. Well, I had to stop really. The machine they use – an e-meter – is a big old clunky device with an old-fashioned meter on the front, and […]

Some time ago Blogful Martin tagged me with the following meme: Imagine you’re in a particular kind of movie, and what your soundtrack will be. So, some time later, here we go: SF Revenge ThrillerI’m a bent police officer who gets shot before the opening credits. But they missed my heart. Reborn as a murderous […]

Here’s a blast from the past for anyone who used to watch old 70s cop shows: Kresky, the disco-lovin’ cop. For some bizarre reason, I’d forgotten all about it until now. But reading the episode guide brings back all those memories. Particularly the hot tubs. Here in the UK it was shown by LWT early […]

There’s a very interesting conversation going on at Lucy‘s right now about censorship, self-censorship, and misogyny. With sidelines into racism, misandry, the glorification of Nazism and the nature of art. Check it out.