Via “Chinese Gold Farmers: Work or Fun?“: “This relationship is an amazing tangle of play and work. The gold farmer works playing a game, so he can earn money which he spends playing the same game. The customer finds part of the game too much like work, so he works at another job to earn… Continue reading The cheat code of the day is TURK
Category: Broken
Surprisingly helpful
I was browsing around, and ended up on the page for the ‘defectivebydesign’ tag users at Amazon have added to products in the catalog. And, when I scrolled down toward the bottom of the page, there’s a handly little helper bit of the UI that makes it almost too easy: Now, that’s the way to… Continue reading Surprisingly helpful
Welcome to a taste of post-abundance
The PSE outage line reports 700,000 estimated without power in their service area, and days if not a week to restore power to everyone. … but, you know, at least that power generator you bought for Y2K is useful now … as long as your gas supply holds out. Get your syphon ready to pull… Continue reading Welcome to a taste of post-abundance
Score one more for Microsoft’s powers of innovation
Via “Northwest Progressive Institute: WARNING: Windows users, you are at risk to new security vulnerability – act now” Unlike with previously revealed vulnerabilities, computers can be infected simply by visiting one of the Web sites or viewing an infected image in an e-mail through the preview pane in older versions of Microsoft Outlook, even if… Continue reading Score one more for Microsoft’s powers of innovation