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Cryptic Notes Left At Vandalized Bremerton Banks - News Story - KIRO Seattle
Police said the content of the notes were all the same and read as follows:

“It is part of the wall that you, as one of the elite upper class, have helped to build between the minority ruling class, and the majority working class throughout history. By flaunting your decadence, you have made yourself a target.”

Vigilante hero? Underground political group? Random act? You decide!

Exclusive Gallery: Dungeons and Dragons 4.0’s “D&D Insider” Screenshots - Boing Boing Gadgets
Wizards of the Coast passed on these screenshots of the upcoming “D&D Insider” software application that will enable gamers to emulate tabletop games from the comfort of their PCs. It will be launched alongside Dungeons & Dragons 4.0, which will be shown off more fully at this weekend’s “D&D Experience” event in Washington, D.C.

Might be part of the D&D Insider subscription, not sure yet.

Treepad Lite: freeware Personal database, PIM, organizer, notes manager, text editor and search engine.
TreePad Lite (freeware) and TreePad Asia (freeware) are small and powerful personal database programs, only 465 Kb in size. They allow you to store all your notes, emails, texts, hyperlinks, etc. into one or multiple databases. With the look and feel of the familiar Windows explorer, editing, storing, browsing, searching and retrieving your data can not be easier!
TreePad can be run directly from a floppy, if necessary, including data. To find any article you previously created or imported, you can browse the tree, in the same way as you browse directories/folders in the Windows explorer. You can also use the internal search engine to find any piece of information swiftly.

I haven’t found many better ways of storing all the information about a campaign that you’re running. Unfortunately, the free version doesn’t allow you to store images within the tree. But that’s okay, it’s still a huge time saver, allowing you to keep everything organized within its own space, but easily accessible.

CALLIHOO Writing Idea Generators: The 37 Dramatic Situations
Georges Polti says that all stories boil down to just 36 dramatic situations and takeoffs of those situations. Somebody else out there added #37. If you’re stuck for a situation, try this. A situation appears below randomly (in bold print). If you’d like more information, or want to see the subplots for the situation, click on its link below.

A good place to go when you’re stuck.

XTerm Medical Dictionary
What is XTerm Medical Dictionary?

This medical dictionary is a private project that endeavors to offer high quality and free of any charge medical information to whose individuals involved in learning and practicing human medicine.

This is handy if you want to add more realism to your games by incorporating real medical conditions, etc.

Calendar Magic
Full year and individual month Gregorian, Afghan, Armenian, Baha’i, Balinese Pawukon (full year only), Balinese Saka, Bangla, Chinese, Coptic, Egyptian, Ethiopic, French Revolutionary, Hebrew, Hindu Lunisolar (3 variants), Hindu Solar, Indian National, Islamic Arithmetical (8 variants), Julian, Revised Julian, Parsi Fasli, Parsi Kadmi, Parsi Shenshai, Persian (2 variants), Sikh Nanakshahi and Vietnamese calendars. A user option is provided to choose between displaying/printing calendars showing each week starting on a Monday (in line with the ISO 8601 international standard), on a Sunday for North American users, or on a Saturday for Middle East users.

If your game uses an alternate calendar system, then this program is for you.

Meet Mavis, the super-charged grandmother whose touch BLOWS UP kettles | the Daily Mail
For most of us, making a cup of tea is one of life’s simpler tasks.

The 60- year- old grandmother seems to have a freakishly high level of static electricity coursing through her body.

Sounds like she could be a comic book mutant.

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Montana: Wrong Heller Decision Would Violate Its Compact with the United States

This could be a plot for a modern or near future game. What if Montana secedes? What if other states followed suit? I’ve seen it mentioned in several cyberpunk books before, from William Gibson and Greg Bear.

Behind the Name: Random Name Generator

There are a lot of random name generators out there. I like generators with a lot of options, and that have ideas behind the name as well.

Five things about the Occult Hand | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
The Order of the Occult Hand never meets, lacks a leader and has but one simple ritual and purpose: to sneak a certain phrase into print. That phrase is: “It was as if an occult hand had …”

Publication of the full phrase, without modification, appearing as a legitimate usage, makes the writer a member of the order.

Just a cute little plot idea. Is this a secret code? Where can you run with it?