Wed, 15 Apr 2009
Shared Items for Wed, 15 Apr 2009
- Anatomical drawing on a cast
- I can’t stop playing with this
- Want a free Pre?
- In-game cash marketplaces and Napster — the arbitrage of time-rich and cash-rich users
- Thematically composited photos of New Yorkers over time but not space
- Texas lawmaker: Chinese Americans should change names so “Americans” can handle them
- 150 AWARE Members Seek Vote Of No Confidence In New Executive Committee
- XTRALICIOUS » Blog Archive » Philip Jeyaretnam’s Eulogy for his father – JBJ
- $7 solar oven design wins $75,000 prize
- Low-tech crowdsourced robot control
- Zimbabwean billboards from trillion dollar notes
- Spoiler Warning
- Kevin Kelly’s list of found quotes
- Eve Sedgwick passed away.
Official, game-sponsored exchanges for real-money trades (RMTs) are more than places where players can swap goods for money. Fundamentally, these exchanges act as an honest broker between two extremely different types of player: cash-rich/time-poor players (people with jobs, for the most part) and time-rich/cash-poor players (retirees and young people).
A great man, a lion, so many have said, but a nice man, a kind man too.
“I wake up at 6am to go and chop wood so that I can return home early” – Not anymore, supposedly.
“The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone”.
April is the cruelest month.
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