Thursday, May 26, 2011

The New Old

One of the most inspirational aspects of the internet are things like the OSR.

Project Gutenburg
the Internet Archive
and
Flicker

They are moving away from the focus on consumerism and the "new-new" and on to "relevance"

If you are digging this you can find some great things in the common domain

Go Feedbooks and get Charles Stross, Cory Doctow and all the Conan you could want while your there pic up the Lensmen

Or if your feeling musical go to the internet archive and have a brows

And if you want audiobooks go to Podiobooks and get Golden age of the Solar Clipper or Infection

For us gaming-geeks there is a world of great support material at our finger tips

Thursday, May 5, 2011

I'm baaaaack

So having started to recover from both a head cold and the blog the alphabet fiasco that turned the OD&D blogosphere into unmitigated drollness I'm going to try and keep on target with the entries here and never again opt into a "bloging" challenge. It - the challenge - really took the fun out of both reading and blogging for me. It was like and allergic reaction.