Link: http://darkelfdesigns.blogspot.com/

My wife's cousin is an awesome comic book artist. Check out his work over at http://darkelfdesigns.blogspot.com/.

I don't think my preference for the 3.5 and pathfinder systems is any surprise nor my love of zombies. Iit stands to reason that I'm very excited about trollitc.com's Aruneus Campaign Setting. Zombies, high fantasy and Pathfinder.

Now awesome people at Troll in the Corner are giving away Pathfinder Core Rule Books and a great many PDF Suplements.

The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game system is one I greatly enjoy running and playing. I enjoy it so much I’ve started writing some small expansions for the system. Now I’d like to share my enjoyment of Pathfinder by giving away everything any group would need to run a full Pathfinder campaign. That means the Pathfinder Core rule book, the Pathfinder Bestiary, and the Pathfinder GameMastery Guide. All in hard cover, bundled together and shipped to anywhere in the world I can legally ship to from the US – all for one lucky winner.

So get over there send them your email and cross your fingers.

I'm glad to see there is a community of people like myself that have found 4e wonting, and/or simply enjoy 3^rd edition enough to stick with it. You notice a 3.x resurgent logo in the side bar now. I obtained the image from The Gherkin Patch who modified the 3.5 resurgent logo from 6d6 Fireball.

(Re: Transfer of USD$25,500,000.00) (TWENTY FIVE MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) Email:saloumkhadimou3@jmail.co.za Dear Sir/Madam, I am Dr Saloum Khadimou . the Senior & Auditor General of a Bank, during the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 2000 and since 2003 nobody has operated on this account again. After going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account is a foreigner, a miner and an industrialist. He made millions of dollars before he died victoriously .Since DEC 26 2003 website details as follow: <<> and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it. My investigation proved to me that the account has no other beneficiary and that until his death he was the manager director of aluminium & steel industries (PTY). SA. We will start the transfer with the total sum involved (TWENTY FIVE MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS)USD$25,500,000.00 only, into your account, as a safe foreigners bank account abroad, but I don't know any foreigner abroad that's why I have contacted you to bear the legal sole beneficiary of the fund. I am revealing this to you with believe in God/Allah that you will never let me down in this business. Also send your private telephone number and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit. I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down in this business proposition. With my influence and the position in the bank, as an official whom is working in our favour we can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing. The bank official will destroy all documents of transaction immediately you receive this fund leaving and they will be no trace to any place and to build confidence you can wrote immediately to discuss with me the modalities,after I will make this remittance in your presented account and fix my resign date, to fly down to your country at least 7 days ahead of the fund transferred and confirm into the account. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 45% of the total amount, 50% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses might have incurred during the process of transferring. I am waiting for your reply. Best Regards, Dr Saloum Khadimou. CONTACT ME WITH THIS EMAIL ADDRESS. E-MAIL:saloumkhadimou3@jmail.co.za

It goes without saying this is obviously a scam, but a scam I keep hearing about people falling for. Is the chance to garner so much money capable of completely over riding common sense? Apparently the answer may be yes. It seems people have an inbuilt common sense over ride if the payoff is sufficient. Yet another mental short cut our brains provide for a meme virus to exploit.

Link: http://www.joffreys.com/_product_29700/Coffee_2-0

Several months ago, Jeffrey's mailed me a sample of their (at the time) newest flavour coffee, Coffee 2.0. About the time this arrived I had been 'let go' from my job. So I was not in the mood to make a review about anything at the time. Well the better part of a year has since past and while I did eventually drink said sample I never quite got motivated to make write a review. As a part of myself imposed sentence to do things that I had put off I've decided to finally make my review. Before I start I should mention that I am not affiliated with Jeffrey's Coffee and Tea company in any form other then having signed up to beta test of Jamaican Me Crazy, my 'review' (barely a paragraph) warranted me being selected to try Coffee 2.0 as I'm sure it did for all JMC beta testers. So there is the potential for a free future cup of coffee to review. I suppose if their coffee isn't any good then that's not an incentive for a good review. Well I can say that coffee 2.0 was good enough for me to attempt to get another free cup of coffee from Jeffrey's (highly doubtful after this time.) I was equal parts skeptical, due to, and amused, because of, the advertising gimmick playing of techno-jargon. I was immediately please that this time the sample was enough to make an entire pot of coffee, the JMC sample was much smaller and had me guesstimating how much water to put in the drip. So with my easily amused mind and not having to play guessing games with the water I was already more impressed with Coffee 2.0 then JMC. I have to say whatever advice they took from the 1500 bloggers it was good advice. The advertising claims it has a 'caramel and smoky overtones'. I don't have a sophisticated enough palate to detect overtones reliably, however I was impressed with the flavour. It was certainly smooth and the quality was quite high. It's cost is on par with the brands of coffee I pick up at the supermarket, Coffee 2.0 is better then many of the aforementioned supermarket obtained brands. It is a top shelf blend that I will be getting again, and that I would recommend.