Food blogs

• Simply Recipes – Very active cooking and baking blog, very varied. Most of the recipes I tried from this blog were really good including buttermilk pancakes, barbecue sauce etc.
• 101 cookbooks – all about cooking, usually simple recipes using what’s lying around, well written and usually interesting.
• Bake or Break – My favorite baking blog, accompanied with really good photos (more on flickr)

Photography

• Stuck in customs – The blog of travel photographer Trey Ratcliff. This man knows how to shoot, and he does it in HDR to boot. Before reading his blog I didn’t really dig HDR, it looked to surreal in my opinion, but after seeing the work on this blog I even started trying it myself.
• The Big Picture – Each post is a collection of (large) photos collected from around the web, themed around some subject. His topics range from the abstract (spring) to the festive (easter) to the journalistic (wars, famines, floods, death, life and in between).

Other

• xkcd – ok, not really a blog, but the funniest web comic in my opinion. Fuck grapefruit!
• John Nack @ Adobe – This blog is usually somehow Adobe related (Well, he works there) and covers photography, illustration, flash and other bits and pieces. But he always finds the coolest stuff, highly recommended!

It starts by trying to establish what differentiates computer role-playing games as a genre, looking at traditional role-playing games, and similar genres such as action games and adventure games. I think the author manages to define it pretty well, as games in which the character/characters have an open-ended advancement system (i.e. go up levels) and in which the resolution system is based upon a fixed set of rules (and statistics).

Reading the book is really bringing back memories of games I played as a kid (and well, as an adult), such as Phantasie III: The Wrath of Nikademus, and Might&Magic 4-5: The World of Xeen.

I even downloaded Phantasie III (it runs in DOSbox, a DOS emulator). You know the saying that “you can’t go home again”? Well they were totally wrong because this game rules, even 20 years after I first played it.

Go 80′s!!!

Finally, after weeks of battling through hordes of horrific robot commandos and robot pirates, and actually robot anything, I have overcome emperror Tachyon, flinging his disgusting little body into a black hole! Now I can finally take this blasted game out of my PS3 and move on to another game.

Candidates are:

• Assassin’s Creed
• Call of Duty 4
• Rainbow six: Vegas
• Ninja Gaiden: Sigma