metagame

Sun­day night, I dragged a fel­low gamer to see Con­ta­gion. She didn’t want to see it at first, but in the end we both enjoyed the film. Don’t worry: I’m not adding movie reviews to this blog. At least not as such. And I don’t reveal any spoil­ers. I have enough trou­ble keep­ing up with …

What’s worse than top 10 lists? Top 100 lists. Of sci­ence fic­tion and fan­tasy books. Deter­mined by inter­net vot­ing. Death to you, mediocre pop­u­lar opin­ion! And as far as NPR goes, did you guys really need to up your geek pageview count? All right, so fine.… what’d it get wrong? In the wtf are you on this …

Con­tin­u­ing a short-lived fas­ci­na­tion with Skynet’s immi­nent takeover, recently I saw that IBM has designed a com­puter to win at Jeop­ardy. The asso­ci­ated com­pe­ti­tion begins air­ing, oddly enough, on Valentine’s day. And hey, that’s neat. This par­tic­u­lar man vs. machine skir­mish is a lot more approach­able than Deep Blue vs. Kas­parov. But there’s some­thing odd here… …