Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Pictographic Language from Easter Island

This is a description of a strange/unique pictographic language found only on Easter Island:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo
I suspect that there are lots of good RPG ideas here!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Traveller Adventures from Zhodani Base

http://zho.berka.com/amber/ as a couple of adventures on it.

Traveller Adventures from Stellar Reaches

http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org/issues/
is a link to about 8 issues of Stellar Reaches, a Traveller fanzine. Each one seems to have more than one ready-to-run adventure in it.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Tanzania's President condemns witchdoctors who kill albinos and harvest their body parts in the hope it will bring prosperity

Now this is an adventure seed that could be used in all kinds of settings!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080403/od_nm/witchcraft_dc;_ylt=AhbEtumoxVY0CCzaQwQQCnqs0NUE

Friday, March 21, 2008

Oldest Rabbit Relative Found

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080321/sc_livescience/fossilofoldestrabbitrelativefound;_ylt=AnftGWKVfJzyeC1kQGxOcAas0NUE


Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Ancient Greek Brain Surgery (about 800BC)

Newspaper article on ancient surgery about 800BC:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080312/sc_afp/greecearchaeologymedicine

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Native Americans of Hetch Hetchy

Article on the native americans of Hetch Hetchy, a valley much like Yosemite:

http://thehive.modbee.com/?q=node/180