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It's a fun, awful game. Interesting that they've refused investment.

Marco adds to Siracusa pretty much what I was thinking - the big console three all seem to be ignoring the disruption of phones and tablets.

Once again a reminder that you don't really own your stuff.

Cool background story, down to the tweaks to the lettering.

I'm interested in MOOCs, as a way to pad my education, but I agree with the author's point that you need the liberal arts basis first to be able to use an online course correctly.

Another reminder of why it's hard politically to unwind the security state.

Yet another detailed analysis of the console market by John Siracusa. I think he leaves out one possibility: they all lose.

Just the classic poem scene, cut to a beat. Still funny.

I hate it when I'm forced to mostly agree with someone like Sununu.

Nifty idea, I wish they had more sample images.

Hahaha. "I can see your Dinklage."

I love how the close-up shots of the giant model kind of look like image compression artifacts.

Interesting stat, but the dominance of Hunger Games could be solved by normalizing the highlight counts by the number of readers. Popular books wouldn't dominate then.

Interesting story about the creation of Random Access Memories. Also this is a great example of lightweight dynamic content, how a magazine should look on the web.

Perfect example of where market incentives fail and you have the wrong kind of regulation making it worse.

Not surprising to see the urban/rural split in the data.

Sully clearly liked the speech. I'm most in agreement with his assessment, that's it's good news but could have gone further.

A decent speech, but it didn't go far enough, and cedes too much to Congress. I hope he gets this wrapped up before another president takes these powers even further.

Interesting. I wouldn't mind more family-oriented stuff that doesn't rely on gross-out humor to get kids to laugh. (i.e. Pixar morality tales)

I still think it's "giff" not "jiff", no matter what the inventor says.

Some insight into which Superman version they're going for.

Another strike against blaming video game and movie violence.

This is a good but depressing point - Millennials aren't very likely to own the kind of home (if any) that supports a huge "entertainment altar", even if they've grown up in a home with one.

I don't know that this is entirely fair, but it makes a good point about how people tend to pan otherwise enjoyable movies just so that they have something to complain about.

Crazy projects, mostly Cold War era.

Some amusing exchange with Damon Lindelof.

My industry still has a long way to go.

I disagree with some of his rankings, but I think his overall series analysis is correct and he makes a great point about Trek's utopian vision.

I love the "one set of footprints" reference.

I have played with the auction rules, but most people object, I think on the happiness grounds mentioned here.