Beyond Monopoly! York UK

This is a boardgaming group near where we're staying on holiday in the UK that has a wiki and an embedded google calendar, both good signs. Only trouble is we leave the UK on the 2nd of December, their usual game night. I'll have to get in touch, maybe get on their mailing list, and see if anyone gets together to game between the "official" gatherings. Dragon Duel could join Dove's Cribbage in my games that have traveled internationally collection.

Wayfaring Map - Yorkshire Trip 2006

Gotta love google maps having UK roads this year, they didn't last fall. Still tricky getting it to acknowledge UK addresses, doesn't seem to like getting any more fine grained than postal code.

Actual Browser Sizes - Preview - Baekdal.com

Somebody finally answering the right question when it comes to web design vs. screen size. Nobody gives a shit how big people's monitors are – the real question is how large the content area of their browser windows are. Looking forward to the final report in November. Curious where the data is coming from (guessing his own site via the urchin tracker a.k.a. google analytics, but hoping it's actually coming from a site with a broader demographic).

Photoshop Levels Tutorial - Balancing Indoor/Outdoor Photos

Learned a new setting on my camera – white balance. But what about when you've got indoor and outdoor lighting in the same photo? I'm sure there's a "right way" to do it, maybe putting yellow filters on your indoor lights or something, but this video tutorial looks more like what I'd actually end up doing, especially since most of my photos end up on the web at low resolution.

GeekList: Soft boards

I've been thinking about producing a limited run of Dragon Duel games once I get the "Minion End-Game" rules sorted out. I found a place that can print the cards, I've got half a lead on getting dragon pieces made, and here's a collection of soft board games, maybe one of the designers can give me some advice on printing them. Oh, and then there's the custom dice, I'll have to think about that too. Gotta get the old Dragon Duel Journal up and running again, it'll be a good test of migrating from Blogger to Wordpress.

WATCHING LEBANON: Washington's interests in Israel's war.

A former intelligence officer said, "We told Israel, 'Look, if you guys have to go, we're behind you all the way. But we think it should be sooner rather than later – the longer you wait, the less time we have to evaluate and plan for Iran before Bush gets out of office.'"

How long do you think before Mr. Hersh gets disappeared? Or maybe that's not an issue since nearly all sources cited are anonymous, giving them little credibility.

Couples Games - Our experiences with 2-player games

not alone in my board-game-geekness and having far more opportunity to play games with my significant other than with groups of friends, though that does appear to be turning around.

Vector Keira

from The World's Most Photorealistic Vector Art. Thanks Josh! The guys are always looking out for me and my Keira obsession, you rock!

Goggles :: The Google Maps flight sim

most entertaining google maps mashup i've seen. i'm not familiar enough with any of those cities at street level to navigate effectively, have to pull it up along side google maps zoomed out a bit. wonder what the exact starting lat/long are?

Update: plug "London, UK" into google maps and that appears to be the starting point for that one. New York starts out in the central park. This will be really killer when he makes it so that you can pick your starting point.

Board Games with Scott

This truly is the year of video on the web. The vidal sassoon student who just cut my hair was talking about putting up instruction videos on how to apply stage makeup. There are some things that are so much easier to teach via video than with text or images, like how to tie your shoelaces faster, how to make a paper airplane, or how to play a board game. This website, Board Games with Scott, uses video as the perfect medium for reviewing something as tangible as a board game. Being a teacher, he focuses on explaining the game mechanics rather than reviewing, since board game tastes vary.

The Games Journal - Archives

A magazine about boardgames. It retired last year but the archives are well worth a browse, assuming you take your boardgames a little more seriously than average folk.