28 interesting accidents

See them here
Some of them are kinda spectacular

Horror Moive Survival Guide

* When it appears that you have killed the monster, *never* check to see if it's really dead.

* If you find that your house is built upon or near a cemetery, was once a church that was used for black masses, had previous inhabitants who went mad or committed suicide or died in some horrible fashion, or had inhabitants who performed necrophilia or satanic practices in your house move away immediately.

* Never read a book of demon summoning aloud, even as a joke.

* Do not search the basement, especially if the power has just gone out.

* If your children speak to you in Latin or any other language which they should not know, or if they speak to you using a voice which is other than their own, shoot them immediately. It will save you a lot of grief in the long run. NOTE: It will probably take several rounds to kill them, so be prepared.

* When you have the benefit of numbers, *never* pair off and go it alone.

* As a general rule, don't solve puzzles that open portals to Hell.

* Never stand in, on, above, below, beside, or anywhere near a grave, tomb, crypt, mausoleum, or other house of the dead.

* If you're searching for something which caused a noise and find out that it's just the cat, *leave the room immediately if you value your life.*

* If appliances start operating by themselves, move out.

* Do not take *anything* from the dead.

* If you find a town which looks deserted, it's probably for a reason. Take the hint and stay away.

* Don't fool with recombinant DNA technology unless you're sure you know what you are doing.

* If you're running from the monster, expect to trip or fall down at least twice, more if you are of the female persuasion. Also note that, despite the fact that you are running and the monster is merely shambling along, it's still moving fast enough to catch up with you.

* If your companions suddenly begin to exhibit uncharacteristic behavior such as hissing, fascination for blood, glowing eyes, increasing hairiness, and so on, get away from them as fast as possible.

* Stay away from certain geographical locations, some of which are listed here: Amityville, Elm Street, Transylvania, Nilbog (God help you if you recognize this one), the Bermuda Triangle, or any small town in Maine.

* If your car runs out of gas at night, do not go to the nearby deserted-looking house to phone for help.

* Beware of strangers bearing tools such as chainsaws, staple guns, hedge trimmers, electric carving knives, combines, lawnmowers, butane torches, soldering irons, band saws, or any device made from deceased companions.

* Listen closely to the soundtrack; and pay attention to the audience, since they are usually far more intelligent than you could ever hope to be.

Anonymous

I've been hearing a lot about these over the past few days.
This video just seems like something out of a post-apocalyptic movie. But then again Scientology also sounds like something out of that kind of movie... Even more, that's the kind of movie that Tom Cruise would star in...

Don't know what scientology is, here's an easy illustrated guide

Devious Pop-up

Who ever makes these things is pure evil...

Rammstein - Rosenrot

Soap Nightmare

Funny story

Diary

Some of my fellow roleplayers started an online dairy for a new Forgotten Realms campaign:

Jareth's Diary
Vorel's Diary

And as if I could resist:

Southside Tales

The Man Who Saved the World

Not many people can say that they did this, but Stanislav Petrov can and he did it by doing nothing...

The Big Bang Theory

The Munchkin Test

(1) You are NOT a munchkin if you roll 3d6 for stats.
You MAY be a munchkin if you roll 4d6 and drop the lowest.
You ARE a munchkin if you roll 4d6 and keep *all four*.

(2) You are NOT a munchkin if you play a fighter with a normal sword.
You MAY be a munchkin if you play a fighter with a +5 sword.
You ARE a munchkin if you play a *thief* with a +5 sword.

(3) You are NOT a munchkin if your familiar is a black cat.
You MAY be a munchkin if your familiar is an imp.
You ARE a munchkin if your familiar is an intelligent, spell
casting Sphere of Annihilation.

(4) You are NOT a munchkin if you can kill an orc in one round.
You MAY be a munchkin if you can kill a tribe of orcs in one
round.
You ARE a munchkin if you can kill Orcus in one round.

(5) You are NOT a munchkin if you play a half-orc.
You MAY be a munchkin if you play a half-elf.
You ARE a munchkin if you play a half-tarrasque.

(6) You are NOT a munchkin if you have a Decanter of Endless Water.
You MAY be a munchkin if you have a Rod of Treasure Detection.
You ARE a munchkin if you have a Ring of Infinite Wishes.

(7) You are NOT a munchkin if you have a Potion of Plant Control.
You MAY be a munchkin if you have a Potion of Giant Control.
You ARE a munchkin if you have a Potion of DM Control.

(8) You are NOT a munchkin if you say... "Wow... I've never even
heard of that magic item..."
You MAY be a munchkin if you say... "Those are great... too bad
I used up the other one I found"
You ARE a munchkin if you say... "Put it in the bag with the
other ones..."

(9) You are NOT a munchkin if you mourn a character's death.
You MAY be a munchkin if you don't mourn a character's death.
You ARE a munchkin if you don't understand the concept of
character death.

(10) You are not a munchkin if you know of a Wand of Wonder.
You may be a Munchkin if you use a Wand of Wonder.
You are a munchkin if you MADE a Wand of Wonder.

(11) You are not a munchkin if you enjoy adventuring in towns.
You may be a munchkin if you don't enjoy adventuring in towns.
You are a munchkin if you enjoy removing towns from the map.

(12) You are not a munckin if your favourite AD&D weapon is a Rapier.
You may be a munchkin if your favourite AD&D weapon is a Vorpal
Sword.
You are a munchkin if your favourite AD&D weapon is a shotgun.

(13) You are not a munchkin if you make characters up for enjoyment.
You may be a munchkin if you make characters up for something to
do.
You are a munchkin if you make characters up to use up all the
18's you "rolled".

(14) You are not a munchkin if you based a character on Catti-Brie.
You may be a munchkin if you based a character on Drizzt
do-Urden.
You are a munchkin if you based a character on Lloth.

(15) You are not a munchkin if you own many AD&D supplements.
You may be a munchkin if you own ALL AD&D supplements.
You are a munchkin if you owned all AD&D supplements before you
started playing AD&D.

(16) You are not a munchkin if you fear the Tarrasque.
You may be a munchkin if you defeated the Tarrasque.
You are a munchkin if you domesticated the Tarrasuqe.

(17) You are not a munchkin if you haggle over the price of a room.
You may be a munchkin if you haggle over the price of the Inn.
You are a munchkin if you don't need to haggle over the price of
the Inn.

(18) You are not a munchkin if you play a Human Cleric.
You may be a munchkin if you play an Elven Bard.
You are a munchkin if you play an Illithid Pscionicist.

(19) You are not a munchkin if you cast Magic Missile.
You may be a munchkin if you cast Chain Lightning.
You are a mucnhkin if you cast Chain Minute Meteors.

(20) You are NOT a munchkin if your heart has been broken by an elf
maid.
You MAY be a munchkin if you sword has been broken decapitating a
dragon.
Your ARE a munchkin if a Tarrasque has been broken running into
you.

(21) You are NOT a munchkin if your bard writes bad poetry.
You MAY be a munchkin if your PC writes Royal Edicts.
You ARE a munchkin if your PC wrote the Bible.

(22) You are NOT a munchkin if your cleric prays to Ilmater.
You MAY be a munchkin if your cleric prays to Bane.
Your ARE a munchkin if Bane prays to your cleric.

(23) You are NOT a munchkin if your PC dreams of someday meeting
Elminster.
You MAY be a munchkin if your PC dreams of someday being
Elminster.
You ARE a munchkin if your PC vaguely remembers killing
Elminster.

(24) You are NOT a munchkin if your fighter is a Peasant Hero.
You MAY be a munchkin if your fighter is a Samurai.
You ARE a munchkin if your fighter is a Cavalier.

(25) You are NOT a munchkin if your mage has 20 Charisma.
You MAY be a munchkin if your mage has 20 Dexterity.
You ARE a munchkin if your mage has 20 Strength.

(26) You are NOT a munchkin if you quest to kill young red dragons.
You MAY be a munchkin if you quest to kill ancient red dragons.
You ARE a munchkin if you randomly encounter ancient red dragons.

(27) You are NOT a munchkin if you wield two daggers.
You MAY be a munchkin if you wield two scimitars.
You ARE a munchkin if you wield two halberds.

(28) You are NOT a munchkin if you ride a mule.
You MAY be a munchkin if you ride a heavy warhorse.
You ARE a munchkin if you ride a Nightmare.

(29) You are NOT a Munchkin if you say "It looks like a big ball!".
You MAY be a Munchkin if you say "It looks like a ball with
tentacles and eyes!"
You ARE a Munchkin if you say "It looks like a Beholder, and it's
eyes do death ray, disintegrate, color spray...."

(29a)You are not a Munchkin if you say "It looks like a ball with
tentacles and eyes!"
You MAY be a Munchkin if you say "It looks like a Beholder, and
it's eyes do death ray, isintegrate, colour spray...."
You ARE a Munchkin if you say "It's a Beholder and now I can make
wands that do death ray, disintegrate, color spray...."

(30) You are not a munchkin if you play a human enchanter.
You might be a munchkin if you play an elven invoker with the
maximum number of fireballs allowed.
You are a munchkin if you play a vampire
transmuter/necromancer/invoker/abjurer/enchanter/illusionist.

(31) You are not a munchkin if you wear chainmail+1.
You might be a munchkin if you wear platemail+10.
You are a munchkin if you prefer a tank to armor.

(32) You are not a munchkin if you flee from beholders.
You might be a munchkin if you launch acid arrows at beholders at
close range.
You are a munchkin if you launch ice storms at beholders at close
range.

(33) You are not a munchkin if you prefer leather armor over
chainmail.
You might be a munchkin if you cast detect magic on every armor
you have found.
You are a munchkin if you design a spell that tells you how many
plusses a magic suit of armor has.

(34) You are not a munchkin if you like improved invisibility spells.
You might be a munchkin if you prefer only 9th level spells.
You are a munchkin if you prefer to design your own 90th level
spells.

(35) You are not a munchkin if you think your party could destroy a
lich.
You might be a munchkin if you think you could beat a lich
singlehandedly.
You are a munchkin if you think you could beat a dracolich
singlehandedly.

(36) You are not a munchkin if you post messages about fighting
tarrasques on Usenet.
You might be a munchkin if you design a webpage on how to beat
tarrasques.
You are a munchkin if you can't figure how to get Usenet and WWW
over your Nintendo.

(37) You are not a munchkin if you like a good brawl with a group of
orcs on occasion.
You might be a munchkin if you enjoy a good brawl with a group of
vampires on occasion.
You are a munchkin if you get bored with brawling with a family
of shadow dragons.

(38) You are not a munchkin if you think Raistlin Majere is the
world's greatest mage.
You might be a munchkin if you think you are the world's greatest
mage.
You are a munchkin if you never really considered you might not
be the world's greatest mage.

(39) You are not a munchkin if your familiar is a frog.
You might be a munchkin if your familiar is a dragon.
You are a munchkin if your familiar is Nuitari.

(40) You are not a munchkin if you play AD&D with the core books only.
You might be a munchkin if you play AD&D with all the player and
DM option books.
You are a munchkin if you play AD&D with real weapons and LSD in
a steam tunnel.

(41) You are not a munchkin if your favorite magic item is your cloak
of elvenkind.
You might be a munchkin if your favorite magic item is your ring
of wishes.
You are a munchkin if your favorite magic items are all ten of
your Orbs of Dragonkind.

(42) You are NOT a Munchkin if your mage has a Spellbook
You MAY BE a Munchkin if your mage has several Spellbooks
You ARE a Munckin if your mage has Elminster's Spellbooks

Original source: ?

Doom for Profit

In our ongoing segment on Global Warming, I present this site.
It makes some good points and has a few links to strengthen its arguments. It's also harsh and quite fun to read.

Global Warming: Fact or Fiction

First part of five, giving another perspective on global warming. If you want to see the rest, just click anywhere on the video to go to YouTube and there's the rest.

Electric Road Sign

A humorous tale

The Brazilian Death Squad

If you thought your gaming group was bad

Is There A Santa?

A detialed analysis about the jolly red-clad fat man

Voodoo People

Microsoft about Firefox

Results from a Microsoft Anti-Spyware Scanner:



Source

A world without Star Wars

The people over at Irregular Webcomic posted a segment of a world without Star Wars (since they're doing a screen cap webcomic about it, where of course the movies never came out). How is this world much diferent from ours?

• Spaceballs is a serious documentary about the practical applications of Buckminsterfullerene.


• Mark Hamill is known (barely) for doing voiceovers for poorly selling computer games, but gains widespread fame after his appearance in the first
  Futurama movie.


• Harrison Ford is known primarily for Indiana Jones.


• Nerdy guys make YouTube videos of themselves wielding crossbows instead of lightsabres.


• Without the success of Star Wars to spark interest in science fiction in the late 70s and early 80s, Star Trek was never revived
  with movies and new series, and remains an obscure short-running TV show.


• Moonraker was never made. James Bond fans never had it so good.


• The major science fiction background that pervades all of Western culture is Battlestar Galactica, despite it never being much good. It was remade
  recently as a new, updated television series with a bigger budget, high-tech computerised special effects, and edgy writing. And it sucked.


• Throughout the 80s and 90s, all the greatest Hollywood blockbusters were big-budget family-oriented musicals.


• The Comic Irregulars exist and are making a screencap comic based on Harry Potter.

Source: Darths & Droids

Bizar Sea Creatures

Some weird stuff lives in the ocean...

Evolving Robots

Robots can evolve to communicate with each other, to help, and even to deceive each other, according to Dario Floreano of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Zombie Food

Let it be known though that I'm not a supporter of zombies and I will not rally to their cause in the apocalypse, the devouring of flesh or their weekly karoake gatherings. It may seem zombist, but I still will not sit next to them on any kind of public transport. I know there are people who are into the whole getting their brains eaten out by zombies. I just want to make it clear once and for all that I'm not one of them. The only reason I post this here is under the motto 'know thy enemy'.

Open letter

Some clarification needed about the Bible

Tech support

Part 1
Part 2 (not as good)

Enjoy!

The Seventh Night

It was dark and quiet. This is never a good combination, and is usually a sign that bad things are about to happen. This night would be no different.
A figure sat perched on the wall of the palace. The darkness veiled his tabard but could not conceal his eyes. The brown eyes peered out into the night, watching. He seemed like he was ready to leap at any moments from the shadows where he clearly belonged.
Then a faint sound pierced the silence that had comforted the night. It was caused by a rock tumbling ever so slightly from an abandoned building adjacent to the palace. Within a heartbeat the figure on the palace walls was gone, leaping from roof to roof. A second figure appeared in the night sky, springing up from the abandoned building. This one had caused the sound of the falling rock. And as his cover had been blown and a pursuer entered the equation, he started out in a dead run. The black-clad figure raced away from the scene of his unveiling and the creature from the shadows chased him over the rooftops. The one who had remained so silent in waiting, was now in full dash and started gaining on the assailant in black. But before he could gain, his prey jumped down and crashed into an unoccupied cart. The black-clad man rolled out of the debris and broke out in a flat run. His pursuer, still on the roof headed back in a different direction. The unknown assailant hurried through the streets, looking back but not seeing his pursuer. As he glanced back he saw the man in the tabard jump down from a nearby roof in front of him, tumbling to get up in one swift motion. As the figure in the tabard stood up, two daggers appeared in his hands. As this was a creature of the shadows, so were his daggers dark as black and they shimmered in a fleeting wind.
The black-clad figure just stopped in fear, savouring what he thought was his last few moments, but then decided that running seemed like a better option. He dashed away, straight into an alley. He didn’t look back anymore; he just wanted to get away. The alley ended and he ended up in a new street. Only here he was expected, ten palace guards awaited him with their swords drawn. The black-clad figure raised his hands in surrender as the figure in the tabard coming up behind him.
‘Don’t worry, we’ve got him, sir’ one of the guards said towards the newly arrived figure.
‘Good, search him’ he answered back. Feuntes swiped away some dust from his tabard, he probably could never get used to wearing the king’s colours. Even though it seamed only a while ago that he sailed across the world, having adventures in strange foreign countries, actually a few years had already passed. And now he was head of the palace guard, protecting the king with his life.
‘Sir’ the guard said as he handed over a yellow envelope just recovered from the black-clad figure. This is what Feuntes had feared. A number of murders had happened in Vaticine city over the past few days, each time a yellow envelope had been left. The envelope was empty but the message was clear. And now an assailant had tried to sneak into the palace carrying such an envelope.
‘Take him in for questioning’ Feuntes told the guards. He had enjoyed himself jumping over the roofs, chasing down the bad guys. But now it was time for more serious work. This is what he did now.

The Seventh Night commentary

Just a few notes about the post above this one.
This is a short story I wrote in under an hour about a character that I once had in a 7th roleplay. It was quite possibly one of my favourite characters and I felt a little sorry to retire him.
I have a new character in that campaign now, who will have to live up to the previous one. But I still wanted to make a sort of epilogue to the story of Fuentes (I actually also still need to write his background...). I'm not sure if I'll continue this story, depends kind of what I feel like writing.
I post the story here as I intended to use this blog as a kind of repository for short stories I write and some info about the campaigns I'm in. The other things are just fluff (though it seems to have grown in size).

I hope this story is the first in many.

Science vs love

Funny report of experiments trying to prove a number of hypothesises about love.

Also from the same site, babyproofing your home laboratory

More useless facts

Found here

Science Fiction

In our ongoing series of articles about the science fiction genre, here's some more reading: (this time more serious)

An open letter to the scifi channel

Scifi out of idea's?

Kevin Smith's feud

Video of how Kevin Smith got into a feud with Tim Burton.

Death from above

Know your meteor threat levels

Science Fiction vs Fantasy

I came across this while surfing. It's slightly subjective...

This is supposed to be satiric but it finally helped me undestand the difference between science fiction and fantasy. Being a fan of both, it's sometimes hard to see (other then the whole future-past thing).

Dangers

Source: xkcd

The scary thing is, the search result of blogging is now over 7000... (mostly thanks to this comic)

Neurons in petri dish

Kinda spooky... next step brain in a jar?

Which one?

Automatic Complaint Generator

Handy for complaining

Bad Day at the office

Big Fat Quiz Of The Year 2006

How did I miss this?
It's funny

I Wanna Be The Guy

Our hardest game ever might have some competition. This one is less funny but this guy is insanely good at it.

Random quote

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire

Two Kinds

Farscape: new webisode series

Cool
Shouldn't be a problem for sci-fi since they probably still have half of the actors from sg1...

Now all we need is the relaunch of Firefly...

Batman: the anime?

Could Batman be following the lead of The Matrix?

Escapa

Annoying game, but you still wanna try and beat it

Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD

The war maybe be over...

CSI Miami - Endless Caruso One Liners

Speed Racer

New movie from the Wachowski brothers (the guys that did the matrix).
Looks like Tron and Anime collided...

See trailer, here

Human Tetris

Google Search Tricks

A bunch of them are detialed on this page.

Zombie story

Told from the perspective of a zombie, by Isaac Marion

Giant UFO

Real of not? Still impressive...

United State of Pop

A mashup of the top 25 songs of 2007 by DJ Earworm

I didn't really enjoy most of the songs that came out in 2007,but this mashup isn't bad...

Not Always Right

Funny site

Sample:

(This conversation between a Returns Employee and a customer was overheard by me and others.)

Employee: “Hello, how may I help you?”

Customer: “Yes, I would like to return this.” (Heaves a large propane tank, the kind used for barbecue grills onto the counter.)

Employee: “Why?”

Customer: “It’s leaking.”

(At this point me, 4 managers, the employee, 2 other customers, and 3 other employees all within earshot, slowly turn their heads towards the leaking tank careful not to make any sudden movements.)

Know Your Meme: One Take

A bunch of videos on youtube doing an analyses of internet culture, quite fascinating to watch really...

The Chosen (Assassin's Creed)

Is this really a song, I mean I know that this appears on the soundtrack of assassin's creed but is it also an actual radio song. And is this the clip for it?

The Movie Trailer Guy

See the movie here.
(If I embed it, it starts playing automaticly)

Winter War

You can read about the Winter War on wikipedia. That's what I did when I saw this

Things to say at work

1. Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.
2. The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
3. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.
4. Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
5. I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't care.
6. I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.
7. What am I? Flypaper for freaks!?
8. I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.
9. I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.
10. I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
11. It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off.
12. Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
13. No, my powers can only be used for good.
14. How about never? Is never good for you?
15. I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.
16. You sound reasonable...Time to up my medication.
17. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
18. I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...
19. I don't work here. I'm a consultant.
20. Who me? I just wander from room to room.
21. My toys! My toys! I can't do this job without my toys!
22. It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.
23. At least I have a positive attitude about my destructive habits.
24. You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.
25. I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.
26. Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.

- Steve Meredith (?)

50 things we know now (that we didn't know last year)

Interesting read

The Answer

Another short story:

Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe -- ninety-six billion planets -- into the supercircuit that would connect them all into one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.
Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then after a moment's silence he said, "Now, Dwar Ev."
Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. "The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn."
"Thank you," said Dwar Reyn. "It shall be a question which no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer."
He turned to face the machine. "Is there a God?"
The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of a single relay.
"Yes, now there is a God."
Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.
A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.

(Fredric Brown, "Answer")

Firefly Comics

A news post, not often that I do one of these...
I'm a big fan of the series firefly and actually bought the first comic book.

Now the second comic, Serenity: Better Days seems to be coming out in March 2008. It seems to still be in a three parter, but they probably bring it out as one book later like they did with the last one.

And for the future, there's probably going to be a Shepard's Tale comic. That should be interesting...

The Radioactive Boy Scout

A chemistry experiment that kinda got out of hand...