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    Tastee (del.icio.us) links!

    4/18/2008 /

    Links for April 18th from 19:48 to 22:10: Without a Goal – An interesting look at the variety of goal-related options in games. Must games provide goals? If so, to what extent? RPG Thoughts – Campaign Plan – Courtesy of WO, this looks like a great way to plan campaigns. I'm going to try it for our game. JKHP:OS-tan/desktops – Very awesome OS-tans of the Linux distros. The Ubuntu lady is my background at work. How to cheat good – a thaumaturgical compendium – 'The only people allowed to use the word ?colour? are those with Indian surnames. ?Weight,? you may argue, ?I was bourne and razed in the english…

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    Tastee linkage

    4/15/2008 /

    The upgrade to WordPress 2.5 meant that my plugin for posting links went away for a while. There may be a duplicate or two towards the bottom of this list, but I have culled it a bit. Big, Brass Ones: Threat Level exploits cross-site scripting bug on CIA.gov – Boing Boing Gadgets – This is pretty dang slick. I need to find out how they've done that, exactly. Twenty Sided » Blog Archive » JC Denton: Not Just a Tough Guy – The clothing of Deus Ex. "I felt ridiculous having these philosophical and political conversations while dressed as a Morpheus cosplayer." The Swamp: Obama: Won't ask, don't mind tellin'…

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    Daily tasteeness (2008-02-21)

    2/21/2008 /

    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.”

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