Misc

For those of you who emailed me or posted about this: there was a bad character in one of the posts. It should be fixed now.

Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace is Danah Boyd’s recent presentation.

However, what I really want to ponder is “why can/can’t we replace MySpace in this paper with the word MMORPGs?”

Factoid: MMORPGs are not, demographically speaking, youth spaces as described (yes, I know you will have anecdotes to the contrary about the obnoxious 14 year old, and so on). Why or why not?

I just realized that many probably didn’t get my joke/pun regarding double-coded languages in yesterday’s Sunday Poem, so I figured I had better point you to Chef, an example of one that I was introduced to while at Living Game Worlds.

The below is interpretable, valid code in Chef. I was told that the goal in the class at GTech was for students to not only write code, but bring in tasty muffins for the class. I guess they had to both compile and cook their recipes. 🙂

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…to get sick. 😛 Been knocked out since sometime yesterday, with a head cold or something — at leats it’s not the stomach flu version! All of us have been fighting it…

I wanted to write about Mirrormask, since I spent all night dreaming about it in that strange quasi-hallucinatory way you do when you’re ill, but I don’t feel up for sitting at the keyboard.

Now I am off to conquer the kingdoms of orange juice and their treacherous allies chicken soup. 😛

…who is under the covers on the couch, recovering from the stomach flu.

Mom: “I told her that it was whale-watching season and her eyes lit up.”

Me: “Yeah?”

Elena: “Yeah. I didn’t know.”

Me: “Yeah, it’s pretty cool, they all come up on shore to watch us.”

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