Game Fodder / Story Fodder

[Setherick]

Imagine this, but instead of being a typical drunk, he's a mythos sorcerer that requires a steady supply of alcohol: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/02/the-man-who-wouldnt-die/

[Setherick]

Underwater archaeologist explore lost 19C arctic rescue mission ship: http://www.archaeology.org/1203/features/hms_investigator_shipwreck_arctic_exploration.html

Also, 30,000 year old statue called Lion Man: http://www.archaeology.org/1203/features/stadelhole_hohlenstein_paleolithic_lowenmensch.html

[Setherick]

What post-liberal, neofeudal citizenship will look like: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/12/us-passport-idUSTRE81B05A20120212

[Shallazar]

These are all great. Thanks Patrick.

[Setherick]

These are all great. Thanks Patrick.

You guys underestimate the number of great things that show up in my Google Reader each morning. I don't usually have time to even look at the Mefi links.

[Tadanori Oyama]

PETA recently sued SeaWorld using the 13th Amendment as evidence that the orca whales where slaves and should be freed.

http://www.peta.org/b/thepetafiles/archive/2011/10/25/peta-sues-seaworld-for-violating-orcas-constitutional-rights.aspx
http://www.peta.org/b/thepetafiles/archive/tags/13th+Amendment/default.aspx

The Daily Show covered it a little as well, in the middle section of this episode: http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/wed-february-15-2012-louise-slaughter

Whatever your opinions about the claim itself, this makes a cool piece of information to use in a campaign set in the future, especially Eclipse Phase, which describes stuff like this has the 1st step in Uplifts.

[Setherick]

Nuclear truckers: http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/nuclear-truckers

[Setherick]

DIY biotech, awesome and very scary: http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=39597

[Setherick]

Speaking of biotech. This looks awesome, but I've not played with it much: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page

[Setherick]

Five hundred German fairy tales collected by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth discovered: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/05/five-hundred-fairytales-discovered-germany?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038

[Setherick]

Great review on Cătălin Avramescu’s classic work on cannibalism: http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/18900540016/people-who-eat-people

[Salkovich]

Members of the homeless being used as wireless hotspots at SXSW. http://io9.com/5892397/at-sxsw-2012-wireless-hotspots-are-people

[Setherick]

Members of the homeless being used as wireless hotspots at SXSW. http://io9.com/5892397/at-sxsw-2012-wireless-hotspots-are-people

This is probably going to be the basis of the next research writing class I teach.

[Setherick]

http://www.retronaut.co/2012/03/guest-list-of-round-the-world-voyage-of-s-s-president-monroe-1936/

[Setherick]

Guerrilla gardening in Ireland: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/28/us-ireland-gardening-idUSBRE82R0O720120328

This reminds me a lot of dirt+seed bombs.