Moving rapidly from frog-fighting street thug into the ranks of the newly rich, I met up with Chek in Star Wars Galaxies. Chek, being accomplished in the arcana of the game’s mechanics was throwing around goodies like credits and a nice hover bike now residing comfortably in the… well, pocket of yours truly. Biking in the sunset I was given a great tutorial and was later taken to see the stately – postcardly situated – houses of certain esteemed game researchers.
Oh, and Chek keeps some dragons around. And I think he is closer to the emperor than he cares to admit :-)
Category: Stuff
The evolution of social software
In the past I’ve spent quite some time looking for exactly that – so here’s Christopher Allen’s Tracing the Evolution of Social Software
The truth shall set me free
Those who are about to die
OK, I am easily impressed by fancy audiovisuals. So sue me.
Trying out the Rome: Total War demo was not a nailbiting experience, but it sure was a pretty one. And the war elephants… you’ve got to love those war elephants.
The Crusade against intelligence
Wired continues the story about The Crusade Against Evolution rightly noting that
This is an issue, of course, that was supposed to have been settled long ago.
Is the evolution of human beings (or other organisms) by natural selection a proven fact? No.
Is it a theory backed by a crushing yet increasing weight of evidence likely to convince anyone but the most hardened anti-materialist? Oh yes.
I’m so glad to live in Denmark where that debate could never occur.