Google has become a standard activity in internet-enabled societies. Googling something is right up there with going for groceries, taking out the trash, walking the dog, and other things that almost everyone does, or is at least intimately familiar with the concept. That said, ‘Googling’ shows up as an error in this spell [...]

Warcraft teaches real life survival skills? For one Norwegian lad and his sister, it sure does!
From Boing Boing: Swedish boy outthinks angry moose with Warcraft skillz.
The comments indicate that the boy was Norwegian and not Swedish. I don’t know squat about World of Warcraft, so I can’t make any nifty insider comments, but [...]

So apparently someone in the USA is printing their own negotiable currency backed by gold and silver reserves. Just like in the old days when bread was a nickel and I wore an onion on my belt, because that was the style at the time.Even though there used to be hundreds, if not thousands of [...]

Slate Magazine has an article on Live Action Role Playing (LARPS) and a documentary that was made about one of the larger events, Darkon. The article is a good commentary on societal bonds and how people are not interacting with each other like they used to.
Slate: Feel the Sting of My Foam Sword
“But no [...]