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Unfiction
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1–2 minutes·
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…
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Lockjaw
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1–2 minutes·
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.
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Lockjaw puzzle
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1–2 minutes·
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.
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I Want My MMOE-TV!
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11–16 minutes·
No comments on I Want My MMOE-TV!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.
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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’.
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Lobsters
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1–2 minutes·
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…
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Hugos
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1–2 minutes·
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.
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Space Exploration Act
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1–2 minutes·
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).
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Dentist
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…
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