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Real Life Comics – The Online Comic ©1999-2008 Greg Dean .
Just yesterday I was commenting to someone that I haven’t actually seen or spoken to Richard in a few years now…
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Ultima Online
Well, sort of. All the achievement points. Not all the achievements. He cheated on one. Which is somehow fitting.
To reach the milestone the Taiwanese power-player killed 390,895 creatures, accumulated 7,255,538,878 points of damage, completed 5,906 quests (that’s 14.62 quests per ...
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World of Warcraft
I am unsurprised to see that there is a fresh paper out that states that there are strong mathematical commonalities between gang formation and guild formation. (I am also unsurprised to see Nic Ducheneaut and Nick Yee among the authors of the paper).
In particular, we find that the ...
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World of Warcraft
Another month, another concert. This one is for Charity Day, another MacZ event in Metaplace. It runs from 2pm-4pm Pacific time. You can get there at this link: http://www.metaplace.com/thestage/play
Or right here, if you can see this world embed:
Head up the stairs and through the ...
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Metaplace
I am playing a live web concert tomorrow, from 2 to 4 pm Pacific , in Metaplace. The set list will be completely different — no overlaps — from the Halloween show. As before, it’ll be just me and a guitar, streaming live to the world.
I’ll have the world embedded here ...
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Metaplace
Some of them anyway. Go here for Adventure, Asteroids, Battlezone, Crystal Castles, Lunar Lander, and Yars’ Revenge . They look to have been recreated quite faithfully, in Flex maybe?
The mouse works in Crystal Castles. Don’t forget the level skip you can do by going to the back ...
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Atari
danah boyd gave a talk at Web2.0Expo that I thought made some great points.
The irony is this: while she gave her talk, the Twitter backchannel was being projected up behind her, where she could not see it. She was in fact in an attention battle with every Tweeter there. On top of that, she ...
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http://www.metaplace.com/TheStage/play
Head on through the doors on the second level of the lobby to the stage proper.
