An article in PC Gamer is titled: “Birth of a Nation: Does Eve Online’s Budding Democracy Represent the First Virtual Sovereign State?” Well, no, because the Council of Stellar Management that as elected by gamers does not have any real authority. Nevertheless, it’s a fascinating case of governance…and hard to generalize from. That is, it’s a great example, but I’m not sure of what.

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From today’s Boston Globe, about Framingham, MA:

For five weeks, butcher-quality cuts of red meat – it appears to be beef – have been appearing regularly beneath a tree in the historic Town Centre Common

It’s be fun to see this ripped-from-the-headlines taken up by, say, Monk and Dexter.

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Monty Python has announced that it’s making all many of its works available for free on YouTube. Yay!

What is the best Python-referencing headline for a post announcing this? “A hovercraft full of reels”? “Not pining for the fee(ords)”? “Wring out your dead”?

[Tags: monty_python doep puzzle ]

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If spoilers were as incompetently directed and edited as Quantum of Solace:

Kwantom of Solars begins with this bigg car chase where it luks like a heliokopter is going to smash into a tunnel, but it turns out that the haliockropter is rally just where the camera is. Anyways, Jammes Bond lives at the end of the caar chase. Oh, but first there’s this carr chaise where three carrs are all the same, even the colorr is the same because they’re black, and they’re filmed like all quick and everything. So, one of the carz is going real fast, and another car is oh and there’s a truck, but it’s all smudgy in the shooting, so another carr or maybe the first carr is shooting at the second smudge and then the first smduge, no wait, it was the second no wait it was the third, well, no then the third smudge would be shooting at itself, anyway the blurry one is now the traffic is going the other way and there’s a truck and two of the smudges are clunking up against one and other, and wait one of them probully has Jumms Bornd in it and twank twank you here the zounds of them bullits twanking and it’s really exxciting what harppened?

[Tags: movies james_bond quantum_of_solace spoilers marc_forster incompetent_directors humor ]

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From a post by Firuzeh Shokooh Valle and Christopher Soghoian at the Open Net Initiative site:

Since 2006, Internet users in Argentina have been blocked from searching for information about some of country’s most notable individuals. Over 100 people have successfully secured temporary restraining orders that direct Google and Yahoo! Argentina to scrub the results of search queries. The list of censorship-seeking celebrities includes judges, public officials, models and actors, as well as the world-cup soccer star and national team head coach Diego Maradona.

Wow. Argentinian celebrities either have a different view of celebrity or of the Web, or both.

The post (which contains much more detail) notes that Yahoo was not notifying searchers that their search results were being blocked, a violation of the Global Net Initiative ethical guidelines that Yahoo, Google, and others recently promulgated. But, Chris Soghoian in an email notes that yesterday Yahoo fixed the transparency problem.

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I recently had to reinstall Puzzle Quest on my Mac, and it took me way longer than it should to find where it stashes saved games. So, to save you the trouble:

Puzzle Quest in porting from Windows seems to have taken the shortcut of replicating on the Mac the Windows folder structure. So, you’ll find the saved games here:

/Users/{your_username}/Library/Preferences/Puzzle Quest Preferences/p_drive/My Documents/Puzzle Quest/Saves

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Suppose that you had a comedy sketch show that made fun of a particular vice presidential candidate particularly effectively. Suppose the person doing the imitations, as well as the staff in general, really really really (excuse me, rully, rully, rully) dislikes the VP candidate. Suppose they think of her as a demagogue. Suppose they felt obliged to honor the candidate’s request to be on the show, but didn’t want to let her use the show to gain sympathy. It’d be awkward.

Or, as they say: Live! From New York! It’s Saturdaaaay Night!

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Berk Breathed is interviewed in Salon about the upcoming end of his comic strip. Too bad. It had a certain ferocity.

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This site will add more cowbell to any mp3 you upload to it.

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