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[wellinghall]

One for the gamers -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28865399

The Economist on stories; worth reading, if only for the name of the writer quoted therein.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2014/08/children-and-religin?fsrc=gn_ep&google_editors_picks=true

For people who like WorldCons, this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMga-1TVZWc&feature=youtu.be
and this crib sheet: jacquemarshall.net/words/Seacon79_faces-140821.pdf
(warning: large pdf file)
may be of interest.

The YMCA sonnet:
http://popsonnet.tumblr.com/post/92079420643/ymca

Trundling lidar-guided printerbot will find you and deliver your hardcopy
http://boingboing.net/2014/08/26/trundling-lidar-guided-printer.html

Comments

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Oooh, great stuff - thanks!

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

Love the sonnet.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links! Lots of food for thought.
I was mildly gloomed by the finding that children with religious upbringings are more gullible than those without, but... ah well, there you go. If it's so, it's so.

And speaking of gullible (? am I reading this wrong?) the BBC doesn't seem to realise that "Choose-your-own-adventure" books were around in the 1970s, i.e. well before the Fighting Fantasy books; the latter seem to be being credited with the invention of game books.

I liked the sonnet very much! :)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It is truly a thing of beauty.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome :-)

I agree with your comments on the religious upbringing story; and with your comments on the BBC story. (You won't have seen it, but a friend in Another Place made a similar comment).

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

That was my reaction to the Fighting Fantasy books article. The wikipedia article on 'Gamebooks' gives a better account of their history.

Incidentally, I have one of the early Tunnels & Trolls solo books for sale in my shop: http://www.shopontheborderlands.co.uk/product/beyond-silvered-pane-looking-glass-dungeon-softback-solo-adventure-tunnels-trolls/