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Declan McCullagh of C-Net is the first with the word: Buried deep in the new law is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit called “Preventing Cyberstalking.” It rewrites existing telephone harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet “without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy.“ “Whoever…

World of Warcraft’s recent patch introduced a server-wide quest for opening the new uber-dungeon, called, varyingly, “a dynamic cooperative quest“, “holy crap, that’s a lots of hunting and gathering“, “worst. quest. ever.“, “sweet, new NPCs we can gank to grief everyone“, “yeah, all you other guys

Sources: Ren Reynolds at Terra Nova looks at Linden Labs buying back the “devauled property” of some Second Life residents. Julian Dibbell, in pole position for the “What the Hell Is Wrong With You” 2006 award, lets the IRS know MMOs exist. David Edery analyzes possible legal pitfalls awaiting MMOs.

First up: Jim Rossignol with a field report on Korean gaming (from Walkerings) Next: Nick Yee on historical precedents (from Raph Koster) Finally: My own commentary on both of these… soon, promise.

(at least in my humble opinion). Everyone else is doing this list, so I will too! (No MMOs included.) 10: F.E.A.R.: Best shooter of last year. Well done atmospherics and the AI was really well done (or at least it reponded well to my cheesy hide-behind-

Well, it looks like about a year’s worth or so of randomly aimless mutterings and silly links has been lost to the Intarweb mist. Ah well, maybe this’ll motivate me to write more and fill in the void! (Edit: After reading Caya’s post I quickly snarfed up

Some New Year’s Resolutions I’n currently considering: 1) When presented with a shiny new blog upgrade? Don’t. 2) When upgrading said shiny new blog? Don’t try to do it over a laggy web connection. 3) When upgrading said shiny new blog over a laggy web connection?