I guess it’s about time I added this to the buffer. For a little over a year now I’ve been playing an RPG with my kids and their friends called Holy Lands. We are playing the ‘Light Edition’ of the game, which I believe, is still freely available as a download from the publisher. The ‘Light Edition’ is a revised set of rules from the Second Edition rules. This is to give you a taste of what is to come within the 3rd Edition currently in production. The main attraction to playing this RPG opposed to the plethora of well-known secular games is the fact that this game system is Christian based, not to mention it’s currently free. I’m sure there are many that would turn their nose up at such a prospect to Role Play as a Christian. Without climbing up on my religious soap-box, I’ll just say don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. For me, the leap to Christian Role Play was not a hard one. Many of my characters throughout my Role Playing career have taken whats easily called the “Moral High Road”.

The backdrop for Holy Lands is the Dark Ages, a period of history where the lines between fact and myth are blurred. This is the same time period that gave life to the Arthurian Legend and the epic poem Beowulf. The game is populated with a full compliment of monsters, demons and a sundry of pagans or devil worshiping humans. (more…)

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Resistance is futile…
The Borg Collective

At some point back in the last millennium, there was this pop-culture phenomenon called Star Trek that invaded most every part of a normal American’s life. So much so that the culture could not escape the effects of some of the social commentaries that occasionally saturated the scripts of this Sci-Fi diversion. It was during this time a menace was revealed. A race of one mind, one thought that worked and acted in perfect harmony, outside of the influence or concept of individual thought, THE BORG.

Once the evil was conceptualized in fiction, it did not take long for internet to answer with the real-world identity of this ultimate bogey-man, one William Henry Gates III. His singular mind, that drives the cube-ship known as Microsoft, was almost instantly recognized for its nefarious process of assimilating technology and re-branding it Microsoft. Their steamroller tactics were almost directly from the play-book of the world smashing Borg of fiction. If it were not for the brave actions of some overly-litigious free thinkers, I would probably be blogging with Microsoft WordPress, and paying for the pleasure to boot.

Apparently, the MS Borg plans for universal digital domination have ceased or slowed in direct proportion to the ratings of the Star Trek franchise. We can all breath a heavy sigh of relief. The worst is over now and Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) is beginning to flourish.

Or is it? (more…)

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