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Scott Jennings

BILL GATES, COLD WARRIOR

CNet: In recent years, there’s been a lot of people clamoring to reform and restrict intellectual-property rights. It started out with just a few people, but now there are a bunch of advocates saying, “We’ve got to look at patents, we’ve got to look at copyrights.

THE SIMS, VERSION 0.1

I remember playing this game for the Commodore 64. (I think I just dated myself, too.)

NO!

The BBC’s daily “righto, these blog thingies are quite smashing, I believe” story had this chilling aside: Only 7% of the 120 million US adults who use the internet had created a blog or web-based diary. Only. ONLY. By my wacky American math, that implies 8.4 million

HEY BALLMER! WHY DON’T YOU…

Found on Q23, a scanned article from Wired – Nintendo’s ex-CEO shows why the Japanese won World War 2. (Edit: It’s actually a really good fake.)

SO LET’S TALK!

My wife, in World of Warcraft, is horribly, horribly uber. This Penny Arcade comic? Yeah. My life, manifest. And, like all people who succeed in MMOs, she’s now in a high level guild. And, like most, they use Teamspeak. (I’ve used it before, but unlike my LIKE UNTO

TODAY’S LIST OF SEARCH TERMS

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AND LO, FOR THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD THEM!

Recommended reading: Jeff Freeman on reducing what’s wrong with MMOs today to the core components.