Passively Multiplayer Online Game — PMOG — is a multiplayer game that you “play” within a status bar in Firefox as you browse. Its a bit like a souped-up tour of the web combined with an RPG reward system and a half dozen other twists thrown in for good measure. There’s even a PVP component.…
February, 2008
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Like a lot of geeks, I saw King of Kong when it finally made its way to my corner of the world. Liked it; laughed at it; thought Billy Mitchell was an ass. Then the other night I’m forcing my wife to watch it, and I decide to Google Billy Mitchell for the hell of…
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Massively asks when will you be done with WoW? Frankly, I can’t imagine ever stopping playing until they finally take down the last server and close up the game permanently. At this point, to me the question is a bit like asking when I’m going to stop using e-mail or IM. Even when I go…
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This Guardian article highlights the odd way that Great Britain treats personal data. On the one hand, laws that govern what private companies can do with personal data are rather draconian compared to, say, the United States. On the other hand, there seems to be almost no effective limit to what European governments can compile.…
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Hasbro finally released images of its Cloverfield action figure. Like the movie, I think the action figure works better as a concept. Once you actually see it, you think “they suckered us into paying money for this?”
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Privateer Press hasn’t bothered to update its Monsterpocalypse website, but it was showing off its kaiju collectible miniatures line at Toyfair. This photo was taken by the good folks at Action-Figure.Com. They’ve got an entire gallery of photos of the miniatures here.
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A couple years ago I claimed that the Nerf N-Strike Longshot CS-6 was the best Nerf gun ever. But Hasbro has outdone even the CS-6 with the N-Strike Vulcan, I just look at that and get the urge to say, “I ain’t got time to bleed.”
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PhotoDropper is a WordPress plugin that integrates the writing screen with Flickr. Say you’re writing a post about NASA and need an image of the Space Shuttle. Type in “Space Shuttle” and PhotoDropper displays Flickr photos tagged “Space Shuttle” that are also licensed under Creative Commons. A couple clicks later, and the photo is inserted…
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Reason’s Jesse Walker has an interview with human rights activist Sam Gregory about the use of video to expose abuses. In Rodney King’s Children, Walker writes, Over the last few years, a brave group of Arab activists has circulated footage of Egyptian cops striking, lashing, and even raping detainees. The torture videos, which had been…
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While I will occasionally pick up the sort of cheap roleplay accessory that shows up on Toys ‘R Us’s shelves to complement my action figure displays, one thing I’ve successfully avoided is collecting prop replicas –simply out of my price range. Otherwise, I’d be lining up to pay $200+ for this nice looking Superman’s Cape…