Daily tasteeness (2008-02-21)

Rock, Paper, Shotgun » The Soul of The Sims
“Well, yeah, it’s some lines of code. But it’s also a precious hint as to how [Will] Wright, a man who’s had a firm hand on PC gaming’s till for decades now, views his own games.”

Scratch Beginnings: An Interview with Adam Shepard ∞ Get Rich Slowly
“[Nickel and Dimed] is a book that I wanted to like […]. Ehrenreich enters her experiment with the end in mind — failure — and she seems to do everything she can to make this end come to fruition.”