I concur – it’s a scam on all of us, not just America, but globally – a stalking horse meant to head off another Arab Spring type event.

Boys respond to leaderboards, girls motivate much differently. Groups are coed based on the description, and the profile for a win would have to involve both genders in some sort of balance, without gender specific tracks. Our economy is changing, for better or worse, and not everyone is college bound – some of those kids [...]

Oh, dear. So much to absorb here. I guess it’s a good thing winter has closed in on us – no way am I going out in this stuff today.

I love seeing reports on things like this. I was a table top gamer way back when, now we’re doing some new things with media and education, and I don’t have my head around what does/does not work, so seeing things like this is important schooling for me.

This is really good – an interesting new resource.

This is, IMHO, an enormously bad idea. We have huge problems with this now, where restrictive laws get passed, and a low risk offender has to pick up and move, losing friends, family, maybe employment, and that dramatically raises the likelihood they’ll commit another crime. It’s a fine line and I suspect that as we’re [...]

I think writing legislation would be a bit of a reach – that’s free form, right? How is this turned into actual playable options? Sounds like you’re more interested in doing a water manager’s simulation with the first order goal of getting the players to think about the inputs (canals, wells) and the outputs (drinking, [...]

I use Gist.com for mining information about my email contacts and it provides a feature like this – a little ‘dossier’ section for each person. Very handy for those whom you don’t interact with so much, and I agree that it would be valuable here, too, when puzzling over who would be fun/helpful to contact.

I found Jane’s work almost by accident – someone had a set of links to PDFs of her work on this odd blog site I sometimes visit. The first link was labeled “Place Storming” – how could I not read something with such a title? By the end of the little four page paper I [...]