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Imagine this – you’re reading the news, surfing around as usual, but instead “just surfing”, you’re actually collecting credits for a game. You go to google.com, but your co-player has “mined” it and you lose credits, but then you’ve got a friend playing also and she has put a gift on that URL, so you gain some credits. Beforehand you need to install a Firefox plugin and you’re good. Only question is that how much is your privacy compromised with the whole business. I won’t install it, but it’s a fascinating idea I got to admit.
The name’s Passively Multiplayer Online Game.
http://pmog.com/about/sightseeing

A really innovative game on a tablet pc. The name’s Crayon Physics Deluxe. It’s a puzzle game in development. Looks cool, but I don’t think I’m going out to buy a tablet just for that. Fortunately, there are plenty of puzzle games for us non-stylus people. So I think it goes under the category “cool but otherwise useless stuff”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTqspnvAaI

Cool article about the Matrix Trilogy, some speculation, some hypothesis, some explanation. The basic point I guess is that the writers can always write around little problems such as the death of main character (or in plural “characters”, as I discovered reading the article from the recap of Matrix Online). One way to go is to “deny everything” – never happened, why would you think of something like that?
http://www.the-trukstop.com/articles/2008/matrix.html

Little glitch in the Belgium’s Tax Office
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_%E2%82%AC883_Million_Overestimate.aspx

CeBIT started and one of the news from Endgadget is the Asus Eee PC 900. It has 8.9 inch screen (larger compared to current 7 inch screen) and of course all the “usual” Eee PC goodies – Solid State Drive and Xandros Linux preinstalled. I have to say, it looks like a cool gadget, but I’d perfer it with a bigger harddrive. I guess I’ll have to wait for a year or so. Moving parts in HDD are so 1950s – SSD is the future!
The idea comes from dukelupus (in Estonian)
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/hands-on-with-the-9-inch-eee-pc/

BBC World has a little video from Estonia. It’s not that cold outside, at least not always and not everyday, but it seems that they captured one of the cold days nicely
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7250000/newsid_7258200/7258220.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&ms3=54&ms_javascript=true&bbcws=2#