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		<title>Athenian Punk Rockers Meet 300!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am finally away from my Greek Island and the &#8220;five star&#8221; resort with no internet access, so I am able to resume blogging. Yesterday evening I arrived in Athens for a three day stay, and as is my wont in a new city, the first thing I did was go out for a wander. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4267930&#038;post=2860&#038;subd=faustusnotes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I arrived in Rhodes, Greece on a two week work-related trip. Rhodes is a very nice spot, and Greece generally excellent, after a day here I can recommend it to anyone looking for a warm, pleasant and friendly place to spend a little time. And really, what could be a better way to spend [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4267930&#038;post=2855&#038;subd=faustusnotes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise of Excel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently a major economics paper was found to contain basic excel errors, among other problems, and an amusing storm of controversy is growing around the paper. The controversy arises because the paper was apparently quite influential in promoting the most recent round of austerity politics in the western world, and the authors themselves used it [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4267930&#038;post=2852&#038;subd=faustusnotes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top of the Lake: Crime and Secrets at the Edge of the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top of the Lake is a seven part television series about misogyny and violence, set at the southern tip of New Zealand. It was directed by Jane Campion, director of the Piano, another movie about misogyny and violence in New Zealand that was very well received when it was released. In her return to New [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4267930&#038;post=2847&#038;subd=faustusnotes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Kind of Spellcaster was Margaret Thatcher</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 03:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Facebook campaign running in England at the moment is driving the song Ding, Dong the Witch is Dead up the charts, in celebration of Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s death. This has the right-wing media up in arms, and has led to an open case of attempted censorship of the BBC. But old school role-players should also [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4267930&#038;post=2842&#038;subd=faustusnotes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steampunk Warhammer Session 6: The Spa Goblins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 10:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of the last session, our heroes had successfully destroyed a disease cult near Separation City, though at a high cost in disease and wounds, and without capturing its ultimate leader. They now knew, however, that this leader could be found somewhere in the distant town of Store, and had a better idea [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4267930&#038;post=2836&#038;subd=faustusnotes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iain M. Banks is dying: having seen off threats from militaristic empires and proto-gods, his galaxy-spanning, anarchist semi-utopian Culture has less than a year to live because of cancer. This marks the sad end of a great science fiction career, and a well-respected fiction writer. My first encounter with Banks was his first Culture novel, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4267930&#038;post=2832&#038;subd=faustusnotes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historians often struggle to come to grips with the more pathological eras of human history. The holocaust, world war 1, Stalin&#8217;s terror and the history of slavery are terrifying periods that are difficult for ordinary people to grasp. Why did people do these things? How did whole populations get caught up in frantic social movements [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4267930&#038;post=2828&#038;subd=faustusnotes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simplifying WFRP3: Magic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing my thoughts on developing a simplified version of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3 based on the Fantasy Flight Games Star Wars system, in this post I will present some suggestions for simplifying the magic system. It is likely that my suggestions for magic will tend to over-power magicians, because that’s exactly what I like in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4267930&#038;post=2824&#038;subd=faustusnotes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief Note on the Religions of the Steamlands</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The people of the Steamlands view faith in a practical light, preferring mostly to avoid the attention of the greater powers in the hope of a peaceful life. That there are Gods and magic imbuing the entire land is a fact unquestioned; the utility of loyal service to them is noted; but the ultimate benefits [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4267930&#038;post=2822&#038;subd=faustusnotes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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