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No spam please. James Gleick has always written insightfully on issues .netly, and today’s article in the NY Times Sunday magazine is no exception. We need to be able to say no. No, I’m not looking for a good time. No, I don’t want to ”e-mail

From Raph Koster, posting on the Star Wars Galaxies boards: “The honest fact is that it takes six months of Live to balance an MMORPG, and anyone who tells you otherwise is kidding themselves. Even six months of beta does not do it.” I’d go further and say MMORPGs

Jonah Goldberg (editor of the National Review’s website) on the Columbia disaster: War, Ambrose Bierce once observed, is God’s way of teaching Americans geography. (Who among us knew where Kandahar was two years ago?) The tragedy of the Columbia is God’s way of teaching Americans about the

Dave “Mahrin Skel” Rickey, speaking only for himself. Yes, that’s hosted here at casa del lum. You too can be hosted at brokentoys.org, assuming you actually work with me and constantly nag me about database geekery and don’t already have a website and… well, no, you too

This is a sample post just to show off blogger.com to someone at the office who hadn’t seen it before. Move along, nothing to see here. (Will have more content in a bit, honest)

From waterthread‘s forums, “We play these games to interact with other people“. -+- Also from wt, eBay insurance, for stuff eBay doesn’t insure. True story: I tried to buy an EQ account once. I got ripped off (“um, I’ll give you the character, but I need to finish

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