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Linkfest 2021-12-10: Sonic Boom!

From Fenton Wood, a trailer for a movie that really does look like the visual style of Samurai Jack. Huge Calder Valley model railway hidden from girlfriend unveiled This headline will never not be funny to me. How to Build a Supersonic Trebuchet As a weapon, there are far more

The Dragon and His Wrath Book Review

This is the third time I’ve read The Dragon and His Wrath [Silver Empire affiliate link], and I’m happy to report that it is a cracking good read every time. I’m a great lover of the kind of book where evil gets its due, and Humphreys does

Linkfest 2021-12-03: The Burden of Proof

The Harvard Crimson: Burden of Proof This math course sounds kind of awesome. One of my few regrets is that I didn’t go further in mathematics. I wouldn’t have had enough preparation for this course as a undergrad, but I find it fascinating all the same. BasedCon: A

The Drawing of the Dark and adding Wargaming back into Dungeons and Dragons

One of the most exciting things that has happened to Dungeons and Dragons recently is the re-appreciation of its roots in wargaming, in particular due to the excellent Secrets of Blackmoor movie that shows us not only Dave Arneson’s contribution to creating the most imaginative game that exists, but

The Long View: Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism

This 2004 book review by John J. Reilly slipped through the cracks. It is an interesting combination of what now seems like insane warmongering about Iraq, but was in fact totally normal at the time across almost all sectors of America, and this little gem of foreign policy: One of

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Movie Review

I took my wife out on a date night to see Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and I was entirely pleased with the movie. It honored the spirit of the original Ghostbusters [Amazon link], and since that is one of my favorite movies from my childhood, I liked this one too. It had

The Long View 2008-11-17: Another Reason to Dislike the Matrix

John J. Reilly recounts an one of the periodic corruptions that seemed to occur on his bulletin board. It may or may not have been this time, I know that once I had encouraged him to enable a CAPTCHA feature on his bulletin board that completely borked it. There is