e-Clippings (Learning As Art)

CUBE Creates Whole New Direction in Gaming!

This video is STUNNING. The gameplay, the UI, the concept....just amazing.

Major Advantage of the e-Learning Guild Annual Gathering

Brent Schlenker notes that the Sam Adams Brewery is 1 mile away from the conference hotel...and you have to pass Fenway Park to get there!

Silly Microsoft...Silly China

(CNN.com link)
"Microsoft Corp. has landed in the Wikipedia doghouse after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site."

(CNN.com link)
"Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to "purify" the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday, describing a top-level meeting that discussed ways to master the country's sprawling, unruly online population."

Next time someone tells you that you HAVE TO HAVE great graphics....

...show them what this guy can do with stick figures.

It's about the design - people.

Bart Loves This Blog!

I just love sign generators!

Amazon Recommendations Are Seriously Cracking Me Up!!

Amazon sometimes gets it right and sometimes you just have to say "WTF?" I logged in tonight (i've totally forgotten why because of this) and my recommendations popped up. Number two on the list is this entry - How To Date A White Woman. Huh? Weird but funny (weird because I think I cracked that code a few years ago and also since I'm not Asian. I know, Oehlert just sounds all Asian but no, its not). Then the laughs really kicked in when I saw why this had been recommended - because I had put Sid Meier's CIV IV on my list. Double huh? Do mainly Asian guys looking for white women play updates of classic turn-based strategy games? Had I stumbled into some demographic neighborhood? Seriously, WTF?

Rehabing the Boring Out of Serious Games (1UP.com story)

This is utterly funny. The premise is that 5 "famous" (I might just go with "employed" in some of the cases) game designers, rehabilitate the world's most boring games. The first sentence of the first review (of Virtual Leader) just sets the tone: "Like a long staff meeting at the big conference table, but without the doughnuts, Virtual Leader teaches managers how to squash the hopes and dreams of worker bees."

The CIA is Tracking Me!!

Wow. Check out this email (one of several I have with this in it now).

Dear Sir/Madam,
we have logged your IP-address on more than 21 illegal Websites.

Important:
Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.

Yours faithfully,
Steven Allison

++++ Central Intelligence Agency -CIA-
++++ Office of Public Affairs
++++ Washington, D.C. 20505

Holy Cow. The CIA investigating my Web habits! Anybody think I should open that attachment?

"Congress Abandons WikiConstitution"

"WASHINGTON, DC—Congress scrapped the open-source, open-edit, online version of the Constitution Monday, only two months after it went live. "The idea seemed to dovetail perfectly with our tradition of democratic participation," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said. "But when so-called 'contributors' began loading it down with profanity, pornography, ASCII art, and mandatory-assault-rifle-ownership amendments, we thought it might be best to cancel the project." Congress intends to restore the Constitution to its pre-Wiki format as soon as an unadulterated copy of the document can be found."

(Story LINK)

I never knew online degrees could be so much fun!

This person is just WAY too happy. This is from an ad running on the front page of the WashingtonPost.com