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Raph Koster — lead on Ultima Online, creator of Star Wars Galaxies, Chief Creative Officer of Sony Online Entertainment, and author of A Theory of Fun (a kind of Understanding… Read the rest of the article: Koster's amazing "What are the lessons of MMORPGs today?"

Podzinger is a service that aggregates hundreds of thousands of episodes of podcasts, converts the entire text of the casts to text, and then delivers a searachable index. You go… Read the rest of the article: Podzinger: search the full text of podcasts

If you're in London on Sunday March 19, there's a public event at my office that I'd like you to come to: we eat brunch, go to Speakers' Corner, and… Read the rest of the article: London Copyfighters: Speak at Speaker's Corner on Mar 19!

The entirety of Burn, a wonderful short science fiction novel, is now available as an audiobook podcast. Back in November, I blogged about Hugo-award-winning author James Patrick Kelly's podcasting of… Read the rest of the article: James P Kelly's "Burn" short sf novel podcast concludes

City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer's latest short story collection, has been published. Jeff's collection is "set in the fantastical town of Ambergris, a complex landscape of stories, 'eyewitness'… Read the rest of the article: Collection of quirky, "neo-Gothic" stories

Australian schools may have to pay a copyright fee every time a student is told to look at the web, if a plan from the national collecting society is successful.… Read the rest of the article: Australia Copyright Agency to schools: pay Internet licenses or shut down the net!

Alec Saunders reports that Montreal airport has put covers over its electrical outlets, presumably to stop people from charging their laptops and phones while travelling. Which is, you know, really… Read the rest of the article: Montreal airport denies electricity to laptop users

Disney is hiring an "Intelligence Analyst" who will monitor "open source media" to assess "threats that could harm, or make vulnerable, The Walt Disney Company (TWDC), its employees, guests, or… Read the rest of the article: Disney hiring "Intelligence Analyst" to review "open source media"

The Re-Imagineering is a blog that bills itself as "A forum for Pixar and Disney professionals passionate about the Disney Theme Parks to catalog past Imagineering missteps and offer up… Read the rest of the article: Pixar employees offer advice on Disney park redesigns

Brad Hunt, the CTO of the MPAA, got an angry reception from a bunch of Hollywood tech-providers when he presented the MPAA's "A-hole" filtering plan. For a couple years now,… Read the rest of the article: MPAA exec can't sell A-hole proposal to tech companies

Montreal (I): Montreal (II): (see this alternate Montreal map) Helsinki: Monterrey: San Diego: Mexico City: (Thanks, Matti, Julien, Matthew, Edmz, Nick and Omegar!) See also: London Anagram Tube Map, Toronto… Read the rest of the article: Anagram maps for Montreal (x2), Helsinki, Monterrey, San Diego, Mexico City

The Boase Concept builds prefab, treetop Ewok villages high in oak, alders, willows and poplars that are planted on toxic soil, and which gradually suck the gunk out of the… Read the rest of the article: Treetop Ewok prefab village to be planted on toxic soil

Curated shopping is apparently a hot retail trend — these are shops whose merchandise and decor are "curated" by someone with keen aesthetic sense. There needn't be anything linking the… Read the rest of the article: Curated shopping: retail trend to thematic shops

My favorite little auction-house in Toronto (on which the auction house in my story Craphound is based) is having another sale on March 2 — this is like meatspace eBay,… Read the rest of the article: Awesome junk auction in Toronto March 2

Fred sez, "On Wednesday, March 1st, Free Culture @ NYU will be holding an art show opening on the 7th floor of NYU's Kimmel Student Center at 7 pm. All… Read the rest of the article: FreeCulture NYU staging Creative Commons art-show

Sun has thrown its financial support behind Architecture for Humanity, a project that publishes Creative Commons-licensed designs for sustainable housing. It's a brilliant project and it's great to see Sun… Read the rest of the article: Sun supporting CC-licensed sustainable architecture

A hotel in Kenya is situated in the middle of a giraffe preserve, and the tame giraffes lean their heads in through the windows of the second-storey breakfast room and… Read the rest of the article: Kenyan hotel where giraffes lean in through upper windows for food

The concluding volume of a new young-adult horror trilogy — Midnighters — from Scott Westerfeld has been published, concluding a wonderful, spooky romp that brings together the best of HP… Read the rest of the article: Midnighters: YA horror trilogy mixes Lovecraft with adventure

A photographer has reconstructed and remixed the pinup pictures of Art Frahm using women in contemporary goth/alternative garb. Frahm was the famous 1950s painter who created bizarre pinups of women… Read the rest of the article: Art Frahm pinups recreated with goth/alternative models