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  • I Want My MMOE-TV!

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    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.

  • MMOEs

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    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’.

  • Lobsters

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    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…

  • Hugos

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    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.

  • Space Exploration Act

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    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).

  • Dentist

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    Went to the dentist today. As I mulled over the psychological impact of hearing the whirr of a drill on patients (perhaps if you used a silent drill people wouldn’t make the association between pain and the drill?) the dentist took a couple of x-rays of my teeth. I hadn’t been to the dentist for…

  • Discourse markers

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    I exhausted my link-finding ability today after constructing a post to Metafilter about discourse markers such as ‘you know’ and ‘I mean’. Read and enjoy.

  • Wired

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    The June issue of Wired Magazine is now online – ever since their new editor came in, Wired stopped their practice of putting issues on the web a month late. This was probably a good idea – the magazine is so cheap in America ($10 for a year’s subscription) that you might as well subscribe,…

  • Saddam writing

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    An amusing article at Reason on Saddam’s career as the best-selling novelist in Iraqi history (even before his book was released, would you believe it).

  • Spooks

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    The BBC has started up a new AI-like game! Quite a surprise, I’ll have to admit. It’s called ‘Spooks’ and you can find the entry page here. Positive points: It’s done by the BBC, who have a good track record of Internet stuff. They openly acknowledge a debt to Microsoft’s AI game. It’s tied to…