December 2010
2 posts
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On Thieves vs. Rogues
Sarah Darkmagic’s point is well made about the Essentials martial classes (except they aren’t called “builds” anymore, snap). The new powers seem to be deconstructions of the original powers for the 4E Rogue. The previous class construction provided a consistent form for each class: 2 at-wills, X encounter powers, Y daily powers. The same for every class (until the later...
Dec 16th
rentzsch.tumblr.com: Mail.app Script: Bottom Post →
rentzsch: I’ve made peace with mostly top-posting my email replies in the name of efficiency. But there are often times when I want to bottom-post my reply to address a specific section. I finally broke down a wrote a script to automate the transformation of Mail.app’s top-post format to my preferred… If only there were a way to make this magic work on iOS. Argh.
Dec 7th
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November 2010
1 post
blog at izs.me: TSA Success Story →
izs: By now, if you haven’t heard the outrage at the TSA’s “enhanced” pat-down procedures, then you don’t use the internet, and you’re not reading this blog. They grope children. They touch your junk. The procedures are ludicrously ineffective and harmful from a security point of view. And the…
Nov 17th
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August 2010
1 post
China's own disaster →
Not quite the same scale (at least as reported), but interesting to compare the details (however thin) of the response to that of the Gulf spill.
Aug 3rd
July 2010
2 posts
What to do when you're dying →
“Twenty-five per cent of all Medicare spending is for the five percent of patients who are in their final year of life, and most of that money goes for care in their last couple months which is of little apparent benefit.”
Jul 29th
If i had any skills, i'd totally work here. →
A bunch of french artisans are building a castle using only local materials and 13th-century building techniques. Tremendously awesome.
Jul 28th
June 2010
1 post
In response to sexism and D&D
A great discussion (Part 1; Part 2) has been going on about sexism and D&D. And i’ve been sort of caught in the middle of it. Here’s my response to @sarahdarkmagic. I am the author and creator of the pregens for DDE: Dark Sun and also the commenter you quoted. I was given a list of five races and six classes to include and told to make six characters from those. Though i feel...
Jun 24th
April 2010
1 post
Amazing community mapping tool →
This is a really cool project that you can contribute to, if you’re so inclined. Even supports export in a variety of formats.
Apr 16th