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May 8, 2016

Modern founding of Mother’s Day [Repost]

While celebrations of mothers and motherhood have occurred around the world for millennium, its more modern celebration that we are familiar with today began with its adoption in the United…..

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April 12, 2016

Lessons learned from CBC D&D’s 3rd season

Now that we’ve completed our third annual spring dungeon crawl with the return to the remote dwarven community on the World’s Spine and their confrontation with the shadowdragon which they…..

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April 8, 2016

The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl [Review]

Set in a future ruled by advertising agencies and their corporate interests that have divided the world nation states into clients, whose citizens are to be monetized and influenced, Frederik…..

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March 27, 2016

The Riddle of the Sands [Review]

Perhaps one of the earliest examples of spy fiction, the Riddle of the Sands had a profound impact when it was published, stirring up early 20th century anxieties in Britain,…..

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March 22, 2016

History of Typography [Repost]

Great video which explains the history and evolution of typography. Runs just over 5 minutes and does an awesome job covering the major innovations that have occurred in typeface since…..

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March 8, 2016

Are We Equals? [Repost]

Excellent points made for International Woman’s Day by 007 and M.  Consider the other inequalities we’d be talking about were they discussing different women – or were Daniel Craig actually…..

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February 28, 2016

Life Lessons from Wendy [Repost]

My awesome colleague Wendy Heisler went off to become a lady pirate one year, and learned some pretty excellent stuff, all of which I totally agree with, and saw some…..

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February 20, 2016

College of Wizardry feature video [Repost]

While we’re busy working away at our own mini-larp “field-trip” being run in the College of Wizardry world at the end of the month, not to mention the seventh run…..