I just realized something about how I play My Life With Master. I don’t ever particularly care about getting to the endgame, in which the players take down the Master. In fact, I always kind of don’t look forward to it, because it sounds like it’s going to be a long drawn-out process in which success or failure of the mandated goal depends entirely on a lot of tough die rolls. ...
Every now and then I use my cell phone camera, meaning to upload the picture and share it immediately. The sharing part never happens. This, then, is housekeeping. It’s tough to make out, but this sign (which was on a gas pump) wants me to “click www.87rewardme.com.” I tried, but I couldn’t find a mouse. Or a screen. Arrr! Pirates, me hearties! A game of Pirates of the Spanish Main under (heh heh) full sail. ...
Salam is back, in self-deprecating mode. Also, he’s risking his life to tell people what’s going on in Iraq, which is somewhat more than you can say for most bloggers. Via Jim Henley (original).
Current Gmail users have a couple of invites to the beta to give away. This has resulted in many offers of firstborn. In order to organize these offers, a clever person invented gmail swap, where people can post offers and the lucky few with gmail invites can pick the cream of the crop. For the record, this one is the cream of the crop. But only if you’re an Asheron’s Call player who’s easily amused.
OK, but I will take a second to note that my respect for Pat Tillman grows more and more the more I learn about him (original). Sounds like he thought a lot. Sounds like he didn’t care much about convention. I already knew that he turned down big money to go fight for his country, and I already knew that he turned down a large contract earlier in his career so he could stay in Arizona with his team. I didn’t know he attended a christening in drag, or that he read as much as he seems to have. ...
Here’s something I didn’t know: in 1974, Portugal’s forty-eight year old dictatorship was overthrown bloodlessly. There’s more detail, not as well written, here (original).
So you hand out a bunch of disposable cameras with stickers on them. The stickers say “take a picture, pass the camera on, mail it here when it’s out of film.” It works (original).
Jay Rosen writes: I will be discussion leader for a session at BloggerCon that we are tentatively calling “What is Journalism? And What Can Weblogs Do About it?” If you plan to attend, (see Dave Winer’s invitation) or follow along by webcast, or if you just have an interest in the subject, here are background notes, some distinctions that might usefully be drawn before discussion starts, and an initial list of questions for the group. There will be no lecture, no speeches, no panel. Dave’s philosophy at BloggerCon (and I agree with it) is that the people in the room are the panel. Keep that in mind as you read this. If you show up, you are a participant. It helps to be on the same page as others, and that’s the purpose of this post. ...
N is another evil Flash game. It’s sort of an action platformer physics simulation. I like it a whole lot.
Obsessive Flash game of the month: Hexic (original). Go, waste time. It’s from the guy who invented Tetris.