Channel surfing is not just a matter of mashing on the clicker; it’s a skill that requires years of practice in order to keep your attention span as short as possible without losing your ability to concentrate on what you’re watching.
December 29, 2004 6:34 AM;
Tags: information overload, surfing, television;
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Ok, so “loving” fanfiction is an exaggeration, but seriously, the stuff is crackalicious.
December 21, 2004 6:33 PM;
Tags: buffy the vampire slayer, fandom, grassroots, television;
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Continuing with the theme of pleasurable addictiveness that I brought up last week, my review of Bejeweled 2 is now up at PopMatters.
December 17, 2004 12:12 AM;
Tags: bejeweled, casual games, games, popmatters, reviews;
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Ratchet & Clank, manages to outstrip the others, not with its level design or its mechanics or its story, but by being more addictive than the other games.
December 11, 2004 9:00 PM;
Tags: affordances, collections, compulsion, platformer;
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I should be grateful to live in a city where you can’t throw a rock without knocking over a stack of paper cup-warmers.
December 6, 2004 5:14 AM;
Tags: coffee, smoking, twin cities;
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People send me links to things, I see stuff on other people’s weblogs, I plug random words into Google and hit the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button, and pretty soon I’ve got a pile of URLs and no idea of what to do with them, so I’ll just post them here for you to enjoy.
December 3, 2004 9:50 PM;
Tags: links, web;
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Zerg played a very conservative game, avoiding gambles and mostly just concentrating on making enough to stay in the game. Jennings, meanwhile, couldn’t put her away.
December 1, 2004 6:41 PM;
Tags: jeopardy, ken jennings, nancy zerg, television;
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