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I confess, I have a weakness for watching the mainstream media lurch amusingly around trying to analyze my chosen profession. Today, Slate takes aim at story-driven video games. Apparently, they’re bad. Basically, the writer’s complaint is that, in a game that advertises the freedom to completely ignore

Some things stay the same, no matter the location. (Thanks to AFKGamer for finding the link… some text from it was posted on F13 earlier. Pretty sure this isn’t the original location… but, well.)

Google has some good ideas on how to alter the way HTML works to defeat Google spammers at their own game. Expect that tech to be deployed here momentarily, although some aggressive filtering makes that less of an issue now. Sadly, the same is true of my email, which is

The Economist has an article this week on as they put it, links between real and virtual economies. Note that if you don’t subscribe, reading this article will cost you $3. (I already subscribe to the print version, since I like news magazines that don’t talk down to

As seen on Q23, this Second Life blog posting will probably trip every work content filter in existence. I mean, look at the URL, for crying out loud! It’s like the people in IRC who used to “grief link” Doug Winger pictures. The first time, you screamed and tried

From Kotaku, probably the most trouble anyone ever endured to avoid looking things up on Gamefaqs.

Our friends at Landover Baptist Church (who want to save you, just as long as you know, you’re properly dressed) are bringing the good word to the people of Azeroth. Billy has what gamers call, a Level 57 Undead Priest with Holy Focus. “I’m also in one of