It might be worth rereading the reference material for Secrets first.

Looks like Pixar may be doing a John Carter of Mars trilogy (original). That has some promise. For available texts, go here.

Bob Mould is running a poll on possible models for sales of his music, prompted by Radiohead’s nifty “pay what you want” release. $40 for a yearly subscription to Mould’s music seems like a decent deal to me. Better if you also get access to his back catalog. A lot of people would pay the $40 once and get a massive deal on all the old music, sure, but that’s still sales you might not see otherwise.

The Merry Daggers are a small company of adventurers resident in Vain’s Rest. They’re based in the Drunken Magistrate, which (as noted elsewhere) is managed by Ba Juerun and his family. There are six Daggers, which conveniently allows for six pre-generated characters for a four or five person one-shot.

This is the second PITF Index for Season 2 of Heroes, the superhero TV show where people really like to punch each other in the face. Face-punch count: 4. Recap punches don’t count even if you think a slap in the face does. PITF Index after the cut.

Noted: The Zombie Marathon (original), at the Somerville Theate. Movies include Shaun of the Dead, Fido, I Walked With A Zombie, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Zombie, and Dead Alive. I suspect that’s the full list, since it’s a 12 hour marathon and that’s 7 movies. No Romero? Shocking, but perhaps Diary of the Dead will sneak onto the program or something. Second, the Brattle Theater’s (original) Boston Fantastic Film Festival is coming soon, like weekend after next. Announced movies: Trapped Ashes ( review (original)), The District ( review (original)), The Signal ( review (original)), Murder Party ( review (original)), The Devil Dared Me To ( review (original), read down a bit), and yay Zebraman ( review (original)). ...

Cheap (free) and easy solution: Formulate. It’s nearly perfect for filling in PDF character sheets, since you can save a filled-in sheet as a Formulate document and then use nifty built-in OS X features to print to PDF. For extra geek points, use handwriting fonts: there are a bunch here (original), amid the popups and blinking ads; Chank has you covered (original) if you want to shell out for somewhat higher quality; or go grab the ECF handwriting fonts (original), which I like a lot.

This is the first PITF Index for Season 2 of Heroes, the superhero TV show where people like to punch each other in the face. Really. Go back and watch the first season; there’s an awful lot of face-punching going on. Therefore, it makes sense to do a weekly recap of who deserves to get punched in the face the most. At least, in our world it does. Face-punch count: 3, or 2 if you don’t count the face slap. Susan does not. PITF Index after the cut.

Amazon now has a Print on Demand service. The pricing is a bit more complex than the competition (namely, Lulu), but everything gets an ISBN and you can publish into Amazon. Which is pretty huge. I don’t think this is a Lulu killer, but it’ll definitely be competition, which hopefully will spur both companies to improve.

There are enough theories about the Broken Maiden to busy a university of scholars for semesters on end, so we will begin with what is known. Once, the Maiden dwelt in the heavens. At times, during the month, she looked down upon the world with one eye. Other times, all you could see was her white smile curving through the sky. She blessed magicians with her wisdom, and was known to be the patron goddess of jesters. ...