In the wild, mouse at the ready, hunting down links
From a previous entry:
My only disappointment is that I can’t play a transforming Shapeshifter in the original campaign.
It is possible to play a Prestige Class character in the original campaign. I guess I hadn’t fulfilled one of the requirements when I tried playing a Shifter the first time.
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– Wednesday, August 11, 2004
The Cow Parade: Cows as objets d’art.
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– Wednesday, August 11, 2004
The Guardian reports there is a significant number of gay football fans:
When England played Croatia in June, a bunch of fans gathered in the gay pub the Duke of Wellington in Soho in London. David, a 35-year-old in PR, remembers: “There was just this whole bar full of lads. Everyone was cheering and roaring for England. It was like being in any straight pub. But then not. Beckham bent over to pick up the ball. Suddenly it was a gay pub again.”
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– Wednesday, August 11, 2004
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– Tuesday, August 10, 2004
From the BBC:
Encephalitis Lethargica was a devastating illness that swept the world in the 1920’s.
It attacked the brain, leaving victims like living statues, speechless and motionless.
During the outbreak, nearly a million died, and millions more were left frozen inside their useless bodies, in institutions.
Noone knew what had caused it, or how to treat it.
Austrian neurologist Constantin von Economo noted:
To look at these patients, one would suppose them to be in a state of profound secondary dementia. Emotions are scarcely noticeable in the face but they are mentally intact.
You may have heard of the disease through the movie Awakenings which was based on a book by Oliver Sacks.
Encephalitis Lethargica also has distinction of being one of the few neurological diseases to have songs inspired by it. Fittingly, the three songs (count ’em: 1, 2, 3) I found online were soporific.
(Link obtained from Neil Gaiman’s site.)
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– Tuesday, August 10, 2004
