Oh, Google, Sometimes I Adore You
Today’s advanced data-mining user-modeling targeted advertisement in GMail as I was cleaning out my junk mail folder: a recipe for Spam Quiche!
April 17, 2008
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April 13, 2008
A Study In Contrasts
So I’ve spent a lazy Sunday doing silly things like signing up for stuff like StumbleUpon, which is what lead me eventually to stumble upon this list of the “100 Best Novels” from randomhouse.com. This list includes a critics list and a reader’s list. Comparing the top 10 from each confirms my deep rooted suspicions that the internet is populated predominantly by crazy people.
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Nobody Cares
For little good reason, OpenID is now (hypothetically) supported for comments. Assuming that the plugin works as advertised, anyway. So, uh, have at, if you happen to care.
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April 7, 2008
Join Me, And Together We Shall Rule Some Make-Believe Islands
The game has been making the rounds, and while it’s not super fantastic awesome or anything, it’s basically something you can play by visiting the web page every couple of hours or so. Therefore I recommend that everyone sign up for Ikariam, set sail on the Epsilon world, and we shall make a grand alliance so that I don’t have to pay through the nose for wine or anything.
A short description for those who haven’t heard or don’t care to research: The game is a very simplified 4X/Civ clone, only web-based, massively multiplayer, and glacially paced. As an example, I am about to build my first colony, which required about a day’s worth of resource gathering. I sent the ships off to colonize an island, giving the orders this morning when I woke up, and they are due to arrive some time around lunch. The first thing I will do is probably start building a port there to ship goods back and forth, and that will probably take an hour or so. In the meantime, I’m researching the “Professional Army” technology, which still has about 7 or 8 hours to go before completing.
I think I remember Joey playing this game in the lab, or at least something very much like it only without all the Civ4-knockoff graphics and what looked like much more complexity, but I can’t remember what that was called and Mike is also playing this one, so this one I shall commit to!
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