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The monster with ten thousand secrets

On thinking some more about the hash cash for virtual real estate idea, one possibility I imagined was that it could be applied to possession of items as well as real estate.  I imagine a game something like Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD), which was very popular back in the BBS era. (21 March 2005)

MMORPG economy problem solved?

So, this afternoon on the bus I was thinking about some of the MMORPG economic problems raised by James Grimmelmann in his law review article.  Look, the problem is that players accumulate too much value, right?  There's a lack of "drains" in the economy.  You need to come up with some way of reducing players' accumulated wealth.  Grimmelmann talks about how games try to get players to give up their wealth by selling them superfluous things like hair dye.  But there's an easier way.  Players have too much stuff?  So why not just take some of it away?  Problem solved!  To be more precise, what I propose is an MMORPG with a tax system.  As far as I know, no current system implements that on a significant scale. (11 March 2005)

World of Burgercraft

What if your local fast food joint was run like World of Warcraft?  The original forum posting of this cautionary tale seems to have been deleted, but since it seems to have been intended for public consumption, I'll mirror it below.  This is direct cut-and-paste, so the spelling errors are from the original; note, too, that I'm pretty sure "$!$%roach" was "cockroach" until an overenthusiastic profanity filter attempted to remove the "cock" from it.  Which just makes the whole thing funnier, of course. (10 March 2005)

Livejournal friends betray trust; film at 11

Some comments on the legality and morality of a public archive of private Livejournal postings. (6 March 2005)

John he said

John he said you never gotta stop dreaming, all a comfort my mind. (2 March 2005)

Almost every time

You said you trusted me always (2 March 2005)