Nordic Larp Talks: Wizardry 101 [Repost]

Great video posted last year Nordic Larp Talks about the power of scenography – that being the management of the play space as a vehicle for establishing the necessary suspension…..

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January 23, 2016

Abarat II: Days of Magic, Nights of War [Review]

Part two in the Abarat series by Clive Barker, the noted master of horror continues to delve into the fantastical world of Abarat and the adventures of Candy Quackenbush picking…..

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January 9, 2016

2016 Niagara Icewine Festival [Video]

The start of the New Year is an especially busy time for the Niagara region as it anticipates the yearly Icewine festival. While the actual harvest date varies from year-to-year,…..

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November 21, 2015

Celebrity’s First Female Cruise Ship Captain

For the first time in the Celebrity Cruise Lines history a woman will be taking the helm of one of their ships. Captain Kate McCue is an American – which…..

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October 24, 2015

Thank Nixon for the Shuttle Program [Repost]

While it was President John F. Kennedy that got the ball rolling, vowing that America would beat the Communists to the Moon after the Soviet Union successfully put Cosmonaut Yuri…..

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October 10, 2015

Illegal Alien by Robert J. Sawyer [Review]

At its heart Illegal Alien is a story about aliens arriving and pushing both sides to re-examine their beliefs about divine creation and debates over evolution while one of the…..

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October 3, 2015

2 Shuttle Launches, 30 Years Apart [Repost]

In honour of the Space Shuttle Atlantis making its maiden flight – Mission STS-51-J – thirty years ago we look back at my visit to its final launch on July…..

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September 14, 2015

i09 Top 10 Sci-fi books: Cryptonomicon

The last title in my i09 challenge is in fact one of my favorite books, and so was a little surprising to me that it had ended up in the…..

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August 30, 2015

UNESCO site: Istanbul, Turkey [Repost]

Once I was asked if Turkey would be considered part of Europe or Asia, and the answer I gave at the time was yes. In fact, the county sits amidst…..

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August 23, 2015

iO9 Top 10 Sci-fi books: Dune by Frank Herbert

With only a few titles remaining in my iO9 challenge it seemed like a good time to pick back up where I left off. Unfortunately their third entry on the…..