WISH 74 (original) is all about dreams and hopes: Name three or more supplements (or core books, for that matter) for existing game systems that you’d like to see. Why? What inspires your interest in these supplement? What existing supplements or materials are you using instead? I’m not an Amber player anymore, but I’d still kind of like to see Rebma… no? OK, I’ll come up with three others. First off is a two in one, since the reasons I want them are similar. I would like to see the promised HeresyRPG. The background was cool and the card art was superb and I like games that use the Christian mythos quite a bit. Heretical cyberpunk hit all my buttons. I want Anoch’s MystickRPG for similar reasons; the cards hinted at a dense intricate background which played to my love for conspiracy. ...

A transcript of an informal chat with Curt Schilling i”s up on Sons of Sam Horn”:http://pub208.ezboard.com/fsonsofsamhornbostonredsox.showMessage?topicID=12304.topic. CurtSchilling38: and then had an email from someone telling me about the SoSH board CurtSchilling38: so I dropped by and read up, and it was pretty cool CurtSchilling38: knowing that an entire “nation” of people was rooting for us to make that decision to come to Boston, and CurtSchilling38: as i said the other day, I am human, its pretty cool to see people wanting you to be a part of “their” team so badly ...

Last week, Lawrence Haws wrote me to point out this post (original), which is — well, it’s what it is. As best I can untangle the logic, Lynxx Pherrett thinks that right wing talk radio isn’t creating a culture of violence because Andrew McCrae was a leftist. There’s also a lot of really flawed rhetoric about how our colleges are producing left-wing assassins by the boatload… OK, I’m going to digress here for a moment. I experienced Harvard’s General Education program, as it happens, and not only did I not become a brainwashed leftist cop-killer, I remember what General Education courses I took. One of these, which was and is the largest course at Harvard, was Michael Sandel’s Justice. Michael Sandel teaches an unrepentantly communitarianist theory of justice; a large portion of the course is dedicated to refuting the theories of John Rawls, patron saint of modern liberalism. It is difficult, to say the least, to reconcile the popularity of a course which preaches the importance of society with claims that Harvard’s General Education curriculum is a breeding ground for dangerous loners. ...

Speaking of maps, holy shit. That’s a lot of map links. (Via Making Light.)

Funky stuff. Nick Olejniczak is teaching a class on weblogs at the University of Wisconsin next spring, and he’s put the syllabus up on a wiki (original). He’s using the wiki to gather community thoughts on the syllabus. Darned cool.

Not exactly breaking news, but there’s been nothing else in White Wolf v. Sony for a while, so here’s the only thing posted in the PACER docket since early this month: 11/26/03 AGREED PROTECTIVE ORDER approved by Judge J. Owen Forrester. (see order for specifics)(cc) (dfb) Sadly for our curiosity, there is no actual order attached. Yeah, I’m pretty much scraping the bottom of the barrel here. I have no idea what this could mean.

I kept the cynical from my door for about, oh, 24 hours. Going to a warzone and cheering up the troops is a pretty good thing to do, even if the motives are impure. So, sure, I gave him points for that. But then I stopped and asked myself why he brought the press corps along. I gotta say. If I’m the President, and I’m worried about my security, and the purpose of my visit is to rally the troops — why do I need Fox News on that plane? Why am I taking the risk of letting reporters in on the story a few days early? I could just, you know, get on the plane and go and come back without bringing along a bunch of cameramen and reporters. If I gotta have pictures, I’m sure there are a couple of Army guys whose job it is to take pictures of things. ...

Tom Kratman responded to my recent discussion of his Posleen book over on my LiveJournal. Since that post is about a month old, I figured I’d be fair and provide a pointer to the discussion. If I’ve given people a negative impression of him, which I imagine I have, he deserves to have his defense seen.

I’m futzing around with ljcrosspost (original), a new plugin that automates crossposting between MT and LiveJournal. If it wipes out all my LJ posts, I will be very sad. … OK, it’s a nice plugin but it doesn’t really make it easy to customize the post title and it doesn’t provide easy access to the permalink — so I can’t easily create links back to the blog side of things. Maybe in a couple of revs. It’s a damned cool idea, though.

Shelby is the sort of indie pop I like a lot. I will want to buy their albums at some point; this is my reminder. (At this precise moment, you can listen to a stream of their music here.)