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Entries for June 5th, 2003

Online La Cosa Nostra

Jun.05, 2003 in Leave a Comment

Great article on an online version of La Cosa Nostra taking over The Sims Online game Hey Tony, outta the way, mob moves on `Sims Online’.

It begs the question, would we choose democracy if presented with a blank slate? Would we choose capitalism? It’s an interesting theoretical debate to have, but it seems that one answer is coming from this game, maybe we wouldn’t. Democracy is not an easy path, and neither is capitalism. Just another reason to be thankful we live in the time and place we do.

New and Improved

Jun.05, 2003 in Leave a Comment

Made lots of improvements over the last few days. You can now view my RSS feed by clicking on XML above. I also have a blog-roll on the left and a link for you to blog roll me. Finally, you can comment on my posts by clicking the link below. Give me some feedback!

  

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