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Crazy questions of the day: Would you be able to get air if you were riding a Segway on the Moon at top speed and hit a bump and could you pull off a ‘Mary Poppins’ by floating down from the top of a hotel with just an umbrella?

Hello to all Metafiltrians! If you’re interested in massively multiuser online entertainment and would like to read more on the subject, here are some handy links:
The Cloudmakers website, dedicated to the Microsoft AI web marketing campaign.
Jawbreakers, a good introduction site to the first successful independent attempt at mmoes called Lockjaw.
Unfiction.com, a general website covering all [...]

Lockjaw has finished! The second ever successful mmoe has come to a close - you can learn more about it here. This is an extremely impressive achievement when you consider that it was produced entirely by volunteers.

An absolutely classic recounting of how players of the mmoe Lockjaw managed to spend 20 days of horror trying to solve a single puzzle. If you want to get an insight into the mind of a die-hard mmoe puzzle-solver, there’s no better account than this.

Just uploaded the new mmoe-TV article which I’ve been working on intermittently during breaks in revision. Turned out longer than I expected, but I’m reasonably pleased with it.

How can mmoes interact with the TV medium, and what are the risks and benefits? This article looks at past mmoe-TV attempts including Alias, as well as the current (at time of writing) BBC series The Spooks.

Someone just coined ‘unfiction’ as a way of describing mmoe-like games such as the AI or The Spooks game. I’m not sure whether it’s particularly descriptive, and I prefer my own ‘mmoe’ (what a surprise). But ‘unfiction’ is easier to say than ‘mmoe’ - so from henceforth, I decree that ‘mmoe’ should be pronounced ‘Moe’.

I’m in the middle of reading Lobsters by Charlie Stross and while it’s very enjoying (a kind of superpowered MacLeod without the communism - okay, that doesn’t make any sense, but still) I can’t help but think - does anyone actually talk like this?
“I work for the betterment of everybody, not just some narrowly defined [...]

Several of the 2001 Hugo SF short story nominees are online at Asimov’s Science Fiction. High quality free science fiction - it doesn’t get much better value than this.

A new bill entitled the Space Exploration Act of 2002 has been introduced to set forth a strict timetable for NASA to accelerate reuseable space vehicle development and see a Man on Mars by 2022 (and no, it hasn’t been enacted yet).