December 2011
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Holy Crap, Skyward Sword.
Look here, Nintendo. As a reasonably hardcore gamer who has enjoyed every (non-handheld) console Zelda game released in the N64 era and beyond (okay, that’s not that many…), I was prepared to endure just about any heinous mechanic you wanted to throw at me, because I’m a fan and fans do stupid things for the games they love.
And I forgave you for turning me into a rolly-polly...
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Pearls Before Breakfast →
It’s not really a good “experiment”, if they were looking for serious data, but kind of an interesting story anyways.
A onetime child prodigy, at 39 Joshua Bell has arrived as an internationally acclaimed virtuoso. Three days before he appeared at the Metro station, Bell had filled the house at Boston’s stately Symphony Hall, where merely pretty good seats went for...
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The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire... →
More Cow Clicker rumination. I’m really fascinated by this, it seems. This article has a lot of the same as previous ones I’ve linked, but tidbits of additional insight as well.
EDIT: this friggin’ article has a FB APP embedded into it! Every instance of the word “cow” is clickable and brings up a prompt to give permissions to an app called Wired Cow Clicker, for...
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ZNGA
101 N is quite different to drive on at 4am in the morning. Didn’t recognize anything. Traffic and parking has never been better, though!
Your company only IPOs once, I suppose. :x
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WatchScorsese on the Daily Show, re: Hugo.
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5 Logical Fallacies That Make You Wrong More Than... →
In this experiment involving electrocuting subjects (presumably conducted by Dr. Peter Venkman) scientists found people were willing to pay up to 20 dollars to avoid a 99 percent chance of a painful electric shock. Seems reasonable enough. But the same subjects would also be willing to pay up to seven dollars to avoid a tiny 1 percent chance of the same shock. It turned out that the subjects...