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Greg Costikyan takes apart yesterday's New York Times Magazine cover story on videogames:
| | We then have some yada-yada from Bonnel about how games are similar to primitive dance, which is nonsense; the case he could, and should, be making is that play is as fundamental to humans as story, and games thus appeal to a fundamental part of what it is to be human, just as stories do. But this would, of course, sabotage the argument that games are form of storytelling--which I don't think I need to debunk again... |
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KCBS says USGS reports it as a 6.4 earthquake near San Simeon (halfway down the Cal. coast between SF and LA)... That's a fairly big quake: not as big as 1989's, which, if memory serves, was 7.1 or so, but thankfully (for those of us not living near San Simeon) far away from California's population centers. A quake that big in the Bay Area or LA would probably have caused considerable damage. Unclear what sort of damage you might find in nearby towns; I'm sure we'll hear more soon.
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Our office tower just started swaying. Stopped now. Seems like there was just a medium-size quake in the Bay Area...
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Microsoft, Longhorn, blogs
My latest column is up today: It offers an overview of Microsoft's vast Longhorn juggernaut -- and a bit of praise for the company (yes, we're capable of that when it's warranted) for letting loose its horde of developers to blog about their work on the new operating system. How many will still be blogging in 2006 or beyond, when Longhorn finally ships? We'll just have to wait and see.
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The huge power outage in downtown San Francisco yesterday left our offices without power for 27 hours. Our colocation center, where most of our web servers are situated, held up fine, so Salon's basic site remained live throughout, but some of our back-end services were affected. We're working this morning to clean up any remaining snafus.
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