Are XBox Live's "gamer zones" actually used when matching up players for games? I just witnessed a Carcassonne match between a local-to-me player in the "Recreation" (happy fun whee) zone versus one in the "Underground" (lol fag pwned) one. I found it surprising, and deeply unpleasant. ("Surprising" in the principle-of-least sense ( Read more... )

Several photos from the debut of cthulhia's crazy art project last week: an entire Carcassonne set made out of gingerbread! http://flickr.com/photos/zendonut/tags/gingerbread/

As the photo descriptions note, we played with the set twice, once at dougo's house and again at the ( Read more... )

Once again growing skeptical of the participatoryculture.org folks. Their DTV channel guide is moderated, and they don't tell you why or how, though they mumble things about decency standards in the FAQ. I can understand wanting to be wary of porn and spam, but surely there are better ways of attending to this than using human bottlenecks? Over the ( Read more... )