I was just honored by our local AM radio station WCHL 1360 with the Village Pride Award. A pretty cool thing to receive. Here is the mp3 of their mini peice about me. Thanks to WCHL, Ruby, and Ron Stutts
WCHL Village Pride Award – Brian Russell
A little context: WCHL [...]
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Holy Pop Culture!, Duke Magazine, Volume 89, No.6, September-October 2003
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Boing Boing contributor and awesome author Cory Doctorow points us to WTF, D&D!? post called The Original Dungeons & Dragons. It has scans of a lot of the original art I’ve been looking at. Cool stuff plus the childish commentary is pretty funny… sometimes.
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All this thinking about games, in-between doing real work, I’ve run across some abstract strategy games. A friend gave me a copy of Go a few years ago. Only played it once or twice. But this game Hex has me intrigued ….
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This just blew my mind! So beautiful!
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Friday February 11, 2011
My first day at the Duke Special Collections Library I looked through three boxes. Each one had about four game boxes in them. The first one, Box #9, had three box sets from the RPG Gamma World by TSR Games. The first box I opened was Gamma World 3002 [...]
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In what seems like a never ending quest to remind myself of important things to do I’ve set up yet another scheme. This one uses telephony service If By Phone. I subscribe to their Complete service for Carrboro Coworking. It gives the business a great call tree and voice mail with a [...]
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Introduction
This morning I began looking at a bunch of paper based role playing games. I suppose you could call what I’m doing feral research. Investigating a topic or group of topics with some intensity without belonging to academia. Thank you Stan Goff for introducing me to the phrase ‘Feral Scholar’ and for [...]
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I learned a lot from this video. Wouldn’t it be cool if all history could be taught this way?
The United Kingdom Explained from C. G. P. Grey on Vimeo.
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I’m going to try to answer this question… until I do I leave you with this…
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