Scott Jennings

From a press conference held by the sysadmin of the Great Firewall of China: Mr. Liu also said the powers that the Bush administrations gained under the Patriot Act to monitor Web sites and e-mail communications and the deployment of technology called Carnival by the F.B.I., which

Second Life Escort Ratings (NSFW) It’s not all handcuffs and cream in Cyboria, sadly… This is all pretty good. But then things went wrong, because the people in charge of Amsterdam are skilled in banning, but not in looking after their facilities. Thus I got exposed to the extremely

Joystiq has a fascinating interview with Hoyt Ma, project manager for World of Warcraft’s Chinese distribution. The subscription model for WoW in China is different from other parts of the world. Instead of a monthly subscription fee, Chinese gamers purchase WoW Points cards for 30 Yuan ($3.64) that

1) Someone went to the trouble of analyzing profanity usage online in Halo 2. Sure, you knew it was there, but did you know there were 0.23 more racial epithets than averrals of sexual preference per hour? 0.23. Hm. That would be, like “ga” but you know, that

This probably isn’t going to be a popular entry with some of you. But you know what? Some things just need to be said. So, checking my bloglines, Abalieno (the Hedda Hopper of MMOs) has some surprising and disturbing news: Jeff Freeman, a designer at SOE Austin, yanked his

That wascally wabbit. A more serious analysis from Stratfor impressed me this morning. It’s subscriber-only so I’ll quote the more relevant bits. It must be emphatically pointed out that the Muslim rejection of the cartoons does not derive from a universalistic view that one should respect religions.