Amsterdam clinic offers gamers path back to reality – Yahoo! News: AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Addiction expert Keith Bakker hopes the serenity of a 16th century townhouse on one of Amsterdam’s canals will coax those snared in the fantasy world of online games back to reality. “Like many others he started out with a handheld GameBoy […]

I have about 4 shelf-feet of dungeons and dragons, middle-earth roleplaying game and related materials that i’m selling for $75 plus shipping (probably close to $100). If you love rare and not so rare role-playing stuff drop me a note. They can be yours. Also if anyone in blacksburg is reading this…. I have about […]

H-Info: H-Info focuses on the interdisciplinary, international study of information and information institutions, broadly construed. It includes the foundations and history of print culture; reading and reception histories; the history and foundations of library and information sciences; and the history of libraries, archives, document-based cultural repositories, and other information institutions ——- as i’m a knowledge […]

Foreign Policy: The State at Work: Running a poor country has never been a tougher job. Civil servants are asked to do the people’s work with very little, sometimes with nothing at all. They see to it that the job gets done—or grinds to a halt. Meet the bureaucrats. ——- this photoessay reminds me of […]

New Scientist Breaking News – ‘Rewired brain’ revives patient after 19 years: Surprisingly, the circuits look nothing like normal brain anatomy. A lot of the damage had been to axons that passed from one side of the brain to the other, torn by the force of the accident. But Schiff says that new connections seem […]

ianhenderson.org – megazoomer: Megazoomer makes windows full-screen. Just press Command-Enter, and the front-most window grows to fill your entire monitor. Press the same keys, and it shrinks again. Like Graffiti, you have to download SIMBL in order for it to work. —— sweet tool.

that <a href=”http://lemmingworks.org/weblog/”>professor nolan</a> is having a birthday on the 7th of july. or that’s what amazon says.

SLurl: Location-Based Linking in Second Life:

Mike Ferner: Has This Country Gone Completely Insane? : And just for the record? I’m not paying the fine. I’ll see Adkins and Ousley and Dubya’s Director of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, if he wants to show up, in United States District Court on the appointed date. And if there’s a Chicago area attorney […]