This website isn’t being blacked out during the SOPA/PIPA protests, because blacking it out would be inconsequential – it doesn’t get enough traffic to really make a point. The point it needs to make is this: SOPA/PIPA is another step towards corporate control of governments and populations, and it needs to stop. Now. SOPA, as… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Poetry of War
Encounters with the Paranormal: Ghosts of War
One night, soon after getting my very first internet-connected computer, I was sitting up late on Altavista (anyone remember that?), surfing the Australian National War Memorial site, looking for family records. James Emanuel Callard was KIA on my birthday in 1917 – mowed down in Ypres on the 8th of June, 68 years before I… Continue Reading
How Rockman Helped me Succeed at Life.
Much fuss is being made over the game Skyrim, which is, by all accounts, really freaking awesome. As far as I know, its basically an excuse to run around an endless world, doing all kinds of jobs and quests and killing dragons. It is reputedly immersive, which I have not actually experienced, as my computer… Continue Reading
Quazi – New ‘Mark of Fire’ Artwork
Quazi are one of the many aerial megafauna which inhabit the hot, hilly deserts of the Shalid region of Archemi. Beautiful and fierce, Quazi have been observed using tools in the wild, and are known to purposefully avenge their dead packmates. Their intelligence and loyalty is highly prized by the Dakhari, Shalieshians and Altanese, who… Continue Reading
The Shell Guarding the Void: A Response to Luke Romyn’s ‘The Illusion of the Tough Guy’.
This started as a comment to Luke Romyn’s fabulous blog post, The Illusion of the Tough Guy, a raw and fast reflection on his own experiences in the security industry. As a newcomer to that industry, I don’t want to go telling my grandmother to suck eggs (in a manner of speaking), but this is… Continue Reading