This is not my article, but I agree with most everything the author has to say. It is worth a share for those of you who have found your life's purpose due to role playing games. Follow link here.
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This video is by far the coolest thing I've seen from science nerds in a long time! Worth a look for sure! Before my teenage years I was not allowed to listen to much in the way of rock, let alone heavy metal. Most of what we listened to was bluegrass or country and western. I loved Johnny Cash, Ray Stevens, Roger Miller and Kenny Rogers. I think I was maybe thirteen when my brother talked my mom into letting him subscribe to one of those record deal clubs where you get twenty or thirty albums for a penny and then you have to order one or two a month for a period of time afterward at full price.
Neither of us had much of a clue when it came to music, but I remember my brother ordered a few records just because the record jacket looked cool. We got Dio Last in Line and Ozzy's Bark at the Moon just that way. A few years later I remember getting my driver's license, hopping in the car and rushing down to the mall. Generally I had saved $30-40 from doing chores and selling pop bottles and I was eager to make two stops, one to the hobby store to see what was new in the world of Dungeons and Dragons, the second to the record store to see what awesome new records were available. You really couldn't sample songs back then, so as we became more and more interested in metal, as a teen you would often be greatly influenced by the album cover. For me, the closer it looked to something from Dungeons and Dragons, or the more demons or half-naked chicks, or a combination of all three greatly influenced my purchase if I knew nothing else about the band. How many bands sold more copy because some nerdy teen like me thought the cover art rocked!? Some of the truly greats like Ozzy Osborne have survived the early 80's and continue to rock out today, but how many bands never survived either because the record art sucked or the band did or both? Want to relive all that? I found this website a few years back that actually categories alphabetically heavy metal record album art and you can download it for free for your own entertainment. How cool is that!? So in my opinion, this website is worth a look! Follow the link to rock on! A friend of mine turned me on to this wonderful comic strip called Savage Chickens. The humor is very similar to my own so of course I can't recommend it...enough. Click here to start gwauffing!
The Smithsonian Institute puts out a journal called Anthronotes. The Spring 2012 issue hasn't been uploaded yet but contains a lot of information about mummified animals from ancient Egypt. I will not post it here since it hasn't been released yet, but if you would like to see earlier issues click here
Death came from above. The US Constitution did not protect me. The United States President did not protect me. The US Congress was briefed by fax that I had been killed. Sound eerily familiar to events in my story The Agony of Hypnos? Perhaps it is because satire and reality are indistinguishable when it comes to the US war on terror. Read the article at Mother Jones and ask yourself, what will I do when the Drone has chosen me for death. Click here for link.
This is a link to a website of a friend I met on Flickr a few years ago. She does her own modeling and does all her own web design. I think this website is very unique, so take a look here
It's actually very "logical" to have your sun gods born near the winter solstice.
This article is one of the better brief discussions on the origin of the Dec. 25th birthday. Click Here This chart is amazing. Zoom in to see the detail. This graph show all the money in units for 2011.
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