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  • Shake phone

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    Transmit a handshake through your phone – while I have the utmost respect for the guys at MIT Media Lab, I fail to see the point of this invention.

  • Gattaca

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    Tom Armitage of Tajmahal is an unusual person. First, he reads this weblog. Second, he is thinking of duplicating the big post/little post structure of Massive. I think that this sort of structure is a good way to keep yourself interested in writing for a weblog, and it’s definitely increased my enjoyment and input for…

  • Fay Weldon and Sims

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    Fay Weldon – a fan of The Sims and Civilization – Call to Power?

  • About For Freedom

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    I just posted the ‘For Freedom!’ article. I was a little wary about doing this as I’m not sure whether it flows properly, seeing as I wrote it over a couple of weeks in two sittings (see if you can find the seam). However, I do think it has some good ideas in it and…

  • For Freedom!

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    8 comments on For Freedom!

    Within all computer games exists an eternal struggle: how much freedom should you give to players, at the sacrifice of a storyline? Both freedom and a good storyline are extremely valuable traits for a game, but exactly why are they mutually exclusive, and what implications does this pose for mmoe?

  • NASA tax funding

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    1% tax on all space and SF related goods to fund NASA, proposes Republican candidate. Unless total sales of those products add up to $1.5 trillion, which I sorely doubt, that guy has to check his figures.

  • Colder War

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    A Colder War – a highly fun SF novelette set in the Cold War about nuclear bombers, interplanetary gateways and Cthulu. Great fiction for free!

  • Watching 24

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    The following events took place between 10pm and 10am of the day of the eighth episode of 24… [beep boop beep boop] 9:55pm – Walk to nearby college TV room to see people watching the wrong channel. Become worried, and discover that they are watching ‘The Long Kiss Goodnight’ on Channel 5. 9:56pm – Check…

  • Google Answers

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    Google Answers – pay to have a question answered. As I commented in Metafilter, “I predict that within but a few months, the vast majority of Google Researchers will be high school students or people from countries where the average level of pay is much lower than the western world’s…” (read more of my comment)

  • Brad DeLong

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    Just as I’m in the process of writing a new article for Massive on degrees of freedom within games, Brad DeLong goes and posts this site’s URL to the Culture list which currently only has an intro article. Oh well. The new article is proving to be particularly interesting to think about though, dealing with…