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Tag: games
Chore Wars lets you claim experience points for household chores. By getting a few people in your house or workplace to sign up, you can assign experience point rewards to individual chores, and see how quickly each of you levels up.
i should get a least 5000 XP for filing a police report
a realistic model of stellar colonization along paths, instead of the usual spherical
Back in the early days of MMORPGs, you met people online who you would play with and they were your friends, but it was cyberspace and real life. Sometimes you had crossovers, but generally you didn’t run into people walking down the street who also played. The difference is with almost 9M players (although 6M are in China) you can now go to a dinner in Silicon Valley or in Berlin and you’ll often find somebody else who plays World of Warcraft. Families play. If you look at the statistics, a huge number of people play who are real-life friends, which is a different than it used to be. So I think that World of Warcraft is similar to what we’ve have been working on for a long time, but it’s a big jump and it’s growing very, very fast. And I think it’s going to grow faster.
By exploring how the system works, as well as how open it is to abuse, The Redistricting Game allows players to experience the realities of one of the most important (yet least understood) aspects of our political system. The game provides a basic introduction to the redistricting system, allows players to explore the ways in which abuses can undermine the system, and provides info about reform initiatives – including a playable version of the Tanner Reform bill to demonstrate the ways that the system might be made more consistent with tenets of good governance. Beyond playing the game, the web site for The Redistricting Game provides a wealth of information about redistricting in every state as well as providing hands-on opportunities for civic engagement and political action.
arcana can be fun (and important)
we need to add these to the computer museum at google nyc
superior UI wins
Sony is considering tying together gamers’ PlayStation 3 consoles into a global supercomputing grid that could be used for commercial applications
i would prefer a 100% allocation to research, but then again whatever the most efficient use is.
Soro trekked 600 km to Abidjan and bought a PS2. He hooked it up to a 13″ TV and opened a mini-arcade on his front porch. For 10c, villagers could challenge a friend to 3 rounds of kick boxing. Soro made $20 in just the first 3 days.
You have only 5 minutes the shuffle off this mortal Flash-based coil before you face something even worse: a meeting with your boss. Enlist the aid of office supplies, co-workers, and unexpected workplace dangers to kill yourself. This isn’t a tough game to win, but it’s fun to explore the area for new, interesting ways to hurt yourself.
heh. that reminds me of digitas / kpmg
this looks sweet. now we need a protein visualization app for the wii. i can already picture the weird contortions people will be doing in their living rooms to navigate dna and such. 50k new folding @ home users. millions are needed, though. otoh, those 50k signed up in 2 weeks and are already providing 330 TFLOPS, compared to the 276 TFLOPS of the existing 2m desktop clients.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 