Syndication pimping

So, I'm currently using 8.639 out of my 10 syndication points. Which is a lot. So I figure I'd pimp the feeds that have fewer than 40 subscribers, in an effort to A) point out cool stuff, and B) lower the cost of the feeds. :-)

perversiontrack: Not nearly as naughty as it sounds. It's a feed from http://www.perversiontracker.com, which parodies http://versiontracker.com. Basically, it consists of snarky reviews of relatively useless Mac software.


a_fdotcom: http://www.action-figure.com/'s feed. This has headlines about all the latest action figure (including Kubrick and other imports) news. I'm surprised it's so infrequently read, considering how nifty some of the stuff they cover is.

forwardingosx -- A group feed (about six people run it, including Patrick Neilson Hayden), dealing with folks talking about nifty OSX features, and improvements over their previous OSs.

thegamereport -- Syndicates Thegamerport.com, a site devoted to board and tabletop gaming. Some very nice writing about traditional games in this blog.

insidemacgames -- For Mac game news, of course.

nielsenhayden -- It's Patrick Nielsen Hayden's blog, or at least the first line and links. I'd rather it provide a full article (as with wilwheaton2), but it's still nice as a reminder that there are new articles to read on the site.

toles_feed -- The wonderful political cartoons of Tom Toles. Why don't more folks subscribe to this one?

comicreviews -- Johanna Draper Carson's (comics columnist who can also be found on the Sequential Tart boards) updates.

wesun_puzzle The NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle. Only updates once a week. Won't hurt your friends page at all.

fanaticalapathy -- Speaking of NPR Feeds, this is Adam Felber's feed.

roger_ebert Tends to update only on Fridays, since it's capsule reviews from Roger Ebert. Actually, you only get the name of the movie, the link, and how many stars it got, but that's enough to remind me to check out his reviews.

Blood Bowl update

Last night's Blood Bowl was fun, if a bit frustrating. I started the half (against blueingenue's Lizardmen) down 1-0. And my team, given it's standard Chaos Dwarf configuration two games before, would probably have been toast. But with the goblin and a troll (both recent additions), nifty things can happen. Like the goblin picking up the kick, and the troll throwing him within yards of the endzone. Two turns in, it was a tie.

But the thing is, I still haven't figured out how to defend against the damned lizards. The skinks are fucking fast. Within two more turns, one of her little skinks had scored.

Her resulting kickoff led to a clusterfuck, with players on both sides falling down (including my troll), lots of folks blocked in, and finally my goblin grabbing the ball and making a sideline run at the end of turn 6. Yes, two touchdowns in the half -- my gobby's gonna be leveling!

The remaining two turns led to no scoring (although all three knocked out players came back into the game), although one of her skinks was caught trying to foul me.

So now we're going to overtime, to be played sometime this week. I really wanted this game to end, dagnabbit! But at least in overtime, at the rates these teams score, we're not likely to end with another tie.

Afterwards, I got back home, watched The Simpsons, and realized I had a bitching case of insomnia. Didn't hit the bed until 3. Am not functional today.

Coraline audiobook

So, Neil Gaiman's blog pointed to this review of the Coraline audiobook. I'd somehow managed to miss the fact that Dawn French did the reading. I most definitely need the audiobook now, much as the idea of an audiobook strikes me as silly.

D.R. and Quinch!

Alan Moore's best comic to date* is getting nifty commemorative statues!
( lookee here )

I need these. Won't be able to afford them, but I so need 'em.

* Okay, some folks have suggested that this "Watchmen" thing was more successful, or his stuff about that guy in the swamp, or the thing that's getting made into the Sean Connery flick. But none of them have the heart of D.R. and Quinch. :-)