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Scott Jennings

4.0B: By Playing Farmville, You Consent To Having The Privacy Of Everyone You Know Torn To Shreds

Entirely appropriate illustration from Toothpaste For Dinner Farmville and other games by Zynga, LOLapps, and other big names in social gaming collect your personal information – and the personal information of everyone on your friends list – and then turn around and sells it to data enrichment firms. Yeah, this can’t

"Doveryai, No Proveryai"

Matthew Weigel, of Dungeon Runners, [classified], The Old Republic, KingsIsle and his own blog, with basic information on coding online trade systems. (Yes, it’s basic, but how many games can *you* name that don’t support it?)

The Dramas, They Burn

Apparently 4Chan weighed in on the EALouse website, briefly deleting it and then replacing it with some dadaist commentary about blouses. It was quickly replaced, of course. Silly kids, to *really* take down a website you use lawyers.

A Short Programming Note

To cut off the flood of emails, texts, IMs, and queries in the hall: * Yes, I saw it. * I have even less comment then Sanya does. * Suffice to say that is a time in my life that has passed and I, and everyone else, have learned a great deal about