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The American Book Review give us their list of the top 100 opening lines from novels. |
Economics humour: Japan’s Phillips curve looks like… Japan! |
Know any web developers? Then you should point them to Things Real People Don’t Say About Your App—it’s a great guide to things that really piss customers off. |
RPGNow has an earthquake relief bundle: $20 gets you over $330 worth of gaming PDFs, with the proceeds going to the Red Cross to assist victims in Christchurch. And Two Scooters Press offers this bundle to delay a single mother’s impending blindness from retinitis pigmentosa. |
Miskatonic River Press’ epic Cthulhu Invictus campaign, The Legacy of Arrius Lurco, is on its way, too. |
James Maliszewski looks to Chaosium’s new Call of Cthulhu as the very essence of how to release a new edition. And maybe he’s right: CoC players are uniquely placid about edition changes. |
Campaign Mastery features a very in-depth, continuing series on pulp gaming, a must-read for fans of Call of Cthulhu and Trail of Cthulhu. |
Runeslinger (from Casting Shadows) looks at chases in Call of Cthulhu, and the value of running away. |
If Call of Cthulhu (and Trail of Cthulhu) are a little too complex and rules-heavy for your tastes, KORPG Games offers Call of d6-lite, a simple, one-page alternative. |
The blog Exchange of Realities certainly looks worth delving into, dealing as it does with the intersection between fiction and roleplaying techniques. |
Geekcentricity defends mediaeval gaming, and shows the benefits of quasi-historical settings over pure high fantasy. |
Planet Algol reveals the real reason why there are no Dwarf women. |
JP Chapleau delivers a cogent opinion piece on the future of D&D 4e, the RPGA and the Living Forgotten Realms campaign. |
The Red DM delivers an equally cogent plea for game designers to adhere to the KISS Principle, over at The Red Box Blog. |
Of course, there aren’t many old links here, but I suppose that’s what you get for going from the top of the pile… So yes, there’s still plenty more to come. In the meantime, check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets’ 20 Minutes of Oxygen. |
It’s always nice to discover that a post has been read by a person and not a spambot! |
Not a problem! It’s a refreshing change to see some good Call of Cthulhu stuff up on the Web. |
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As Christmas approaches and you find yourself struggling to think of unique and impressive gifts to buy, it is important to remember there is nothing more valuable than the safety and security of your family and loved ones. We at Keytek have collated a list of gifts and stocking fillers that will help ensure the safety... |
People who frequently find themselves locked out the house because they’ve forgotten their keys often result in hiding a spare key around the front of their property. This can put their security at risk, as the easiest way a burglar can enter a house is by finding the spare key. An ideal gift for those who forget their... |
Motorcycle and bicycle theft remains a growing problem and can be easily avoided by the use of a bike and motorbike lock. If a loved one has a passion for biking, a gift that secures their most prized possession is ideal for Christmas, as motorcycles and cycles can be very expensive, therefore targeted by thieves. Keyt... |
Why not consider a humorous yet practical gift this Christmas. The range of Decoy Safe’s on the Keytek Shop can be used to hide money, jewellery and valuables in plain sight. The Keytek Shop offers 3 models of Decoy Safe’s; The Heinz Baked Beanz, Heinz Spaghetti and Heinz Tomato Soup cans, all recognised by the police,... |
This year don’t just resort to your usual go to gifts for Christmas; why not throw in a practical gift as well! Gifts which protect the security of a person and their prized possessions are enormously valuable, and the recipient will be extremely grateful in the long run. |
The Woodwind and Brass Workshop pays attention to detail and craftsmanship in every repair so that even the most discerning player is getting the most from his clarinet. We can adjust and regulate your clarinet as well as adjust key and ring heights. |
Complete overhauls and repads are available at competitive prices. Woodwind and Brass Workshop services, repairs and restore all makes of clarinets. |
Jasarat (روزنامہ جسارت) is an Urdu Daily newspaper in Pakistan. It is circulated all over Pakistan with offices in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. It is very popular among Pakistani people due to its fast and accurated daily news in urdu language. |
The newspaper has been published in Karachi since 1970. The newspaper reflects views of Jamat-e-Islami, a religious political party in Pakistan. Jasarat is the first online Newspaper in Urdu language. It means jasarat is pioneer in the field of online urdu news. |
Does Donald Trump take Justin Trudeau seriously? |
Embarrassing Donald Trump, who takes everything personally and angers easily is not wise. Justin Trudeau’s announcement after Trump left the recent G7 meeting that Canada won’t be pushed around created unintended consequences for himself and our country. |
Trump tweeted to the world that Justin Trudeau is “dishonest” and “weak”. Ouch. |
Although the PM’s approval rating did go up at home, he inadvertently raised the stakes in negotiations that are critical to our economy and tens of thousand of jobs, and triggered a renewed threat from the mercurial Trump to put a 25% tariffs on cars made in Canada. |
Apparently no one ever told the PM that if you are in high-stakes poker game and you don’t know who the mark at the table is, it’s you. A read of the 1987 bestseller attributed to Trump “The Art of the Deal” would help, particularly #2 of Trump’s 11 steps to a winning deal — Protect the downside and the upside will tak... |
The downside in this case is the demise of Canada’s auto industry, which supports half a million jobs across Canada, 5000 thousand of which are well paid jobs at Ford’s Oakville Assembly Plant. |
Ninety percent of the Ford autos made there are sold in the U.S. If 25% tariffs are introduced Ford workers would face immediate cutbacks. |
But let’s be candid. The issue is not only the message. |
Trump cabinet members could not have missed the photos of Canada’s Prime Minister boxing at Bronx gym in the middle of a work day, or posing at an international conference in New York in his Wookie socks the same day half million Rohingya Muslim refugees were fleeing violence, or his six-day family costume vacation in ... |
Selfies, silly socks and photo-bombing are supposed to impress? These are dangerous economic times. |
Tens of thousand of jobs in Canada are on the line, and we face a recession if auto tariffs are introduced. Yet Justin Trudeau has taken 16 personal days off work since January. |
If our Prime Minister doesn’t take his job seriously, why would the U.S President and his cabinet? |
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. With Trudeau and trade deals it’s not just the message. It’s the messenger. |
Next ›Terence fighting the Liberals for transparency in drug data! |
Emmanuelle here today for some insipiration. |
Here is a layout I made with some pictures taken one and a half year ago. We are still waiting for a proper spring here in Belgium (that is why my pics are a little bit dark...it's been raining the whole week... sorry about that), and I just need some sun. |
That's why I decided to use pictures from a sunny day in Malta. And those pics from holidays spent abroad where perfect to start using the enw Escape colletion. I love the colors of this collection. And once again it's so versatile that you can use it for any theme. |
I am just in love with this light blue and grey association, with a touch of orange, aren't you? |
Have a lovely week-end and be scrappy ;) (and if you are, don't forget to post your projects using Evalicious supplies into our Flickr pool. |
I grew up listening to Jeff Wayne's original musical and this has so much from the original and so much of its own! Micheal Sheen is superb as the Narrator. I highly recommend this! |
Absolutely superb! Terry Pratchett and Dirk Maggs at their best! I have been a fan of both for many years and Its a real treat hear them together! |
Stephen Fry is fantastic and at 71 hours for one credit it is amazing value. I have listened to all the BBC Sherlock Holmes plays for years, it's great to have them unabridged. |
I had already seen the TV series and loved it when I bought these books. I'll be going straight onto the next one- can't wait! |
Around 30 years ago, two things happened that were to revolutionize the understanding of our home planet. First, geologists realized that the continents themselves were drifting across the surface of the globe and that oceans were being created and destroyed. Secondly, pictures of the entire planet were returned from s... |
Travelling to Work is the third volume of Michael Palin's widely acclaimed diaries. After the Python years and a decade of filming, writing and acting, Palin's career takes an unexpected direction into travel, which will shape his working life for the next 25 years. Yet, as the diaries reveal, he remained ferociously b... |
I have really enjoyed listening to all of Micheal Palin's diaries, the way he reads makes me feels he reading just for me and that we are good friends (sadly we are not). I would recommend all 3 volumes to any one with a passing interest in British comedy, TV and Film. |
I am a huge Churchill fan, but i find this book terrible for its bias. Its like reading an article for the news papers but with longer words. |
Some of the metaphors that Boris uses are simply horrible, for example he repeatedly uses the term Nazi EU when talking about the second world war. This is News of the world stuff, again with words that have more syllables than usual. |
I did enjoy this book but not for the reasons the author intended, I was more hopeful of a work by a clearly very clever man. |
Following the execution of the king in 1649, the new Commonwealth and then Oliver Cromwell set out to drive forward a puritan reformation of manners. They wanted to reform the church and its services, enforce the Sabbath, suppress Christmas, and spread the gospel. They sought to impose a stern moral discipline to regul... |
This is a well written book that I found both fascinating and horrifying at the same time. I personally found the narrator very fitting to the material. |
The Daleks are advancing, their empire expanding into Earth's space. The Earth forces are resisting in every way they can. But the battles rage on across countless solar systems. And now the future of our galaxy hangs in the balance.... The Doctor finds himself stranded on board a starship near the frontline with a gro... |
The only negative is that the author seems to ignore completely that the Daleks have been time traveling since the William Hartnell 1965 story the Chase and in the 1986 story.....oh now i sound like a spotter. |
Margaret Thatcher is one of the most iconic politicians of the 20th century. With the possible exception of Winston Churchill, no other Prime Minister has had such an impact on modern British history. Like it or not, her radical social and economic policies have made Britain the country it is today. Without Margaret Th... |
I really enjoyed this account of Mrs Thatchers life. This book is most certainly not written as a unbiased account, one example would be the description of the Westland affair which had me reaching for other accounts just to try and balance things back up. |
Interestingly the lack of any mention of Northern Ireland or interment is a serious error, missing on a hugely controversial decision taken by the Prime Minister. The author also has a habit of offering relevant personal criticisms of ministers and advisor's that seem to have no bearing on the narrative. |
Nigel Anthony's narration is excellent, I felt as though the author was telling this story. |
Please note that I am neither a supporter nor critic of Mrs thatcher. |
Imagine this: You are sitting in the Bistro P. having a glass of red. You are at one of the wooden tables along the wall. You look around. There are perhaps a dozen people left and they are all sitting at wooden tables. You smile. All the tables are wooden. Perhaps, it is after midnight. You’re not sure what time it is... |
Marc Chagall comes in and sits at your table, across from you. Inexplicably, even though you have never seen his picture, you know who he is. |
“Are you Russian?” Chagall says. |
“Find out about you people,” he says. |
He orders a bottle of expensive French wine and you wonder who’s going to pay for it since Chagall died in 1985. |
You hand him your Waterman fountain pen – the one you can’t seem to lose. |
You help him down from the chair, he orders another bottle of wine, and you don’t care. The waiter pours the wine and you sit with Chagall and watch the falling snow, which is, of course, filled with starlight. At around 2:30 a.m., a red donkey walks down the middle of the street and you both watch it without flinching... |
Shop the complete collection of Paperblanks 5-Year Snapshot Journals with 6 styles to choose from. |
Paperblanks 5 Year Snapshot Journals are the perfect way to capture all of life's meaningful moments and advance your goals. |
Take a snapshot of an important period in your life such as college, early career, motherhood, career change and more. |
By using symbols even more can be expressed in minimal space and without demanding a lot of your time. A variety of booklets, plans and cheat sheets are available for free to help you get even more out of your 5-Year Snapshot Journal. Start today and turn your experience into a meaningful snapshot with Paperblanks 5-Ye... |
Welcome to My Personal Galleries! |
Create your own Galleries choosing works of art and objects from Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Collections. |
In order to access the secure area you must have prior authorisation. |
Have a browse through our online Collections to find your favourites. |
When you get an idea of what kind of Gallery you want to create come back to this Log In page where you can create an account. |
When you've created your account, you can go to the collections page and find the objects you want to add. If you have found what you want to add, click on the image, this will take you to the works of art and objects page which features lots of information, i.e. Artists name, details about the work and when it was acq... |
When the page is open you will see 'Add to Gallery' at the top of the page, click on this and then select the Gallery you have created. The images will go into your Gallery. |
Your Gallery will come to us for checking before it being added to the website, just to make sure it has suitable content. |
Plastic Table Skirting with Adhesive Strip for Easy Hanging! |
Superior Quality Plastic Table Skirting with Adhesive Strip for Easy Hanging! |
Disposable in Design but Reusable in Quality! |
Select a commercial project in manufacturing a non-durable inexpensive consumer with a simple manufacturing process item of your choice. Study the manufacturing process. Marketing plan should have more than one retailer. The project should last more than 2 years. With this background preparation, prepare a concise repo... |
While I have been writing stories since I could hold a pencil, I am by no means an expert on writing. (Just ask my poor editor.) But I have picked up a few things over the years that might help new writers on their publication journey. The tips below are based sometimes on experience, other times on logic or a personal... |
Read, read, and read some more. Reading will not only teach you what does work, it will teach you what doesn‘t. Ask yourself, what kind of books do you like to read? Why? Can you build that experience into your own stories? |
Set goals to practice your writing. You could aim to write a little every day, even if it’s just a half-page entry in a journal, or pick a daily subject to inspire a few creative sentences. If every day is unmanageable, try once a week, or even once a month – just keep in mind that the more often you do it, the better ... |
Write what you would enjoy reading. If you’re writing a chapter that’s making your eyelids droop, don’t expect your readers to get excited. Every scene in your book must carry its weight and move the story forward. If it doesn’t, ditch it. |
Know where you’re going before you start. All rules are made to be broken, but you will save yourself a lot of headaches (read: re-writes), if you nut out the beginning, middle AND ending of your book before you go diving into your first draft. Some argue that the most creative stories come from sitting down without a ... |
Do your homework. There’s nothing more embarrassing than someone pointing out a very obvious mistake in your book because you were too lazy to check your facts. |
Adverbs have a sneaky way of sounding great when you write them down, but they are the quicksand of the written word, bogging down your writing and sucking your readers into reading the words, and not the story. |
Show, don’t tell. This one is a common editing phrase. Sometimes it’s easier to pump out essential story information in long chunks of prose, or just say ‘and then this happened…’. Sometimes, it’s even appropriate. More often than not, however, readers want to SEE your character DOING these things, step by step and thr... |
Let your characters shine with dialogue. Dialogue is a great tool to bring your characters to life without lumping your reader with a list of adjectives. In David and the Heart of Aurasius, we know Counsellor Asheigal is a rotten bully, not because I use those words, but because he sneers instead of speaks, and what he... |
On the subject of dialogue, new writers often seem to go out of their way to avoid using the word ‘said’. There is nothing wrong with the word ‘said’, so please don’t feel the need to replace all uses of it with verbs like ‘replied’, ‘commented’, ‘stated’, ‘questioned’, ‘cried’, ‘pointed out’, ‘exclaimed’, etc… Of cour... |
The best way to never finish a book is to criticise your writing even as it’s flowing from the tip of your pen. Your inner editor is telling you ‘that line is wrong, that’s a bad choice of words, why are you using adverbs? You’re not ALLOWED to use adverbs’. Stop for a moment. Take a breath, sit your inner editor down ... |
The science behind this is simple. The right side of your brain manages creativity, intuition, emotion and connections. The left side rules by logic, analyses facts, and provides criticism to help us make decisions. Which side do you think should be behind the steering wheel during a first draft? The one that wants to ... |
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