There used to be an ad agency on the fifth floor of the Origin building, back when it was off of 360. I can’t remember what it was called, but after they moved us from our cramped offices where we were packed in three or four to an office, we were moved up there. It was very early in UO’s actual development, but long after Rick Delashmit had done the initial prototype — maybe a month or two in from what I think of as the start of the “real” UO, which was in September of 1995. We had to go by the receptionist, who always wondered who those scruffy guys in t-shirts were who ducked past them to go into the nondescript corner of the floor.

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Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins launched recently. Henry’s an amazingly smart guy with a lot to say about both games and popular culture. Worth reading.

A week or so ago, The Razor published a pair of articles on MySpace Roleplaying. The first described the phenomenon of MySpace profiles that are fictive renderings of celebrities or of the characters they play on TV. The second is an interview with a MySpace roleplayer, which contains the following gem of a quote:

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The Webcomics Examiner has an interview with Scott McCloud, where he presents the following breakdown of types of comics artists:

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