fun swimming game

a touching story about blizzard pulling out all stops for a sick kid. Dickens + the Onion, "Then, last fall, Micah Chatterton's house burned down, taking away all his son's toys."

interesting account of winning a "find the buried mystery object" game (and 100,000 pounds). need to view source on the annoying miniframes for it to be at all readable

more Chinese WoW shenanigans. Looks like guilds are planting stories to try and hound rivals off the intarwebs

story of online chinese oppression apparently mirroring real life, but with a funny twist

interesting slashdot comment about ways to make MMORGS more fun

wikipedia description of a 1999 game between Kasparov and an online forum. Interesting online dynamics ripe for a shirkywank

great first-person account of designing a text-based multiplayer sex game

allegedly the most difficult nyt crossword ever published

Try to hit the capitals of each country, lowest cumulative kilometer error score wins