As I go stumbling off into the first balmy New York weekend all year, I wanted to leave you a few things to contemplate...Chartreuse has a birthday today. As a coincidental sort of birthday present, a new video-blogger just opened a sex advice site with a special dedication to Chartreuse. If only we could all age with such gracefulness...
Speaking of strange graces, I've lined up a winning new writer for your Five Easy Questioning Pleasure. Over the weekend, check out Nick Mamatas, the novelist and blogger who will bring fantastical literary inspiration over here next week.
Speaking of feeling older, I've been meaning to post this inspirational (and somewhat frightening) thought from Alex Soojung-Kim Pang about the kids that will grow up inside the strange virtual communities we are building on the web.
Check it out:
"It had never occurred to me to think of massive multiplayer game spaces as breeding-grounds for design and engineering skill; but maybe 20 years from now there'll be a generation of kids for whom virtual world-building and rapid prototyping are as natural a combination as word processing and printing were for mine."
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