Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:43:26 -0400 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> To: <wsfalist at KeithLynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com> Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Sad news Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> > "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com> 3/9/2008 1:27 PM >>> >At 3/9/2008 12:28 PM, Michael Walsh wrote: >>Gygax ... NY Times ... Flowchart >><http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/03/09/opinion/09opart2.ready.html= > >Well, it looks somewhat like a flowchart...but has the same >relationship that the cargo cult airplanes did to real >airplanes. I.e. they are only the same if you are an ignorant >primitive with no real understanding...or a NY Times "journalist", >which appears to be pretty much the same thing. Actually the NY Times didn't use the word flowchart, you might want to = talk to Cory Doctorow who posted it on BoingBoing with this headline: = ""Flowchart: How D&D is a gateway drug to every flavor of nerdiness" I thought it was amusing. But then I'm easily amused. mjw