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      • Book Reviews for 2008
        • Historical Geography
        • Heavenly Spheres
        • The Trial
        • The Meaning of Tingo
        • The Literary Animal
        • Vestal Fire
        • Justinian’s Institutes
        • God and Reason
        • Throwing Fire
        • The Little Mermaid
        • Two New Sciences
        • History of Reading
        • Origins of Complex Language
        • War and Peace and War
        • Energy Victory
        • The Trojan War
        • Talking Hands
        • The Stories of English
      • Book Reviews for 2009
        • Parallel Lives
        • Origin of Stories
        • Early Civilizations
        • Kluge
        • Farewell to Alms
        • Saxons, Vikings, and Celts
        • The 10,000 Year Explosion
        • Mohammed Charlemagne
        • The Eternal Frontier
        • Adages III iv 1 to IV ii 100
        • Franklin: Writings
        • Cambridge Language
      • Book Reviews for 2010
        • Tricks of the Mind
        • The Richness of Life
        • Ideas
        • The Case for India
        • Human Universals
        • Anglo-Saxon
        • India Unbound
        • Mencius
        • Moral Minds
        • Winds of Change
        • Empires of Time
        • Prehistory
        • Justinian's Flea
        • In the Blink of an Eye
        • When Asia Was the World
        • Marco Polo
        • Thumbs, Toes, and Tears
        • Through the Looking Glass
        • Evolutionary Origin
        • Catching Fire
        • Trail of Tears
        • Early Greece
      • Book Reviews for 2011
        • The Mountains of St. Francis
        • Law and Crime in the Roman World
        • Life Ascending
        • The Evolution of God
        • A Splendid Exchange
        • Vermeer's Hat
        • How Language Works
        • The Salem Witchcraft Trials
        • The Taste of Conquest
        • Witchcraft and Society
        • Barbarians to Angels
        • Democracy in America
        • Reading in the Brain
        • Oxford Companion to the English Language
        • Attila The Hun
        • Supernormal Stimuli
        • Riddled With Life
        • Science in Traditional China
        • Rare Earth
        • Under a Green Sky
        • The Triumph of Science and Reason
        • Letters From an American Farmer
        • DeathInPot
        • Travelling Heroes
      • Book Reviews for 2012
        • The Oregon Trail
        • The Great Divergence
        • How the West Grew Rich
        • The Perfect Swarm
        • The History of Early Rome
        • The Ascent of Money
        • The Storytelling Animal
        • The Better Angels of Our Nature
        • Finding Our Tongues
        • Interactive Storytelling for Videogames
        • Christopher Columbus
        • Life on a Young Planet
        • Journal of the Plague Year
        • Puddn'head Wilson
        • The Social Conquest of Earth
        • Correspondence of Erasmus V11
        • BeginningsWesternScience
        • Seagoing Ships Bronze Age
        • The Origins of Political Order
        • Scientific Culture
      • Book Reviews for 2013
        • A History of Mathematics
        • The Great Decision
        • Mongol Queens
        • Thomas Jefferson
        • Thinking, Fast and Slow
        • Smoot's Ear
        • By Hook or By Crook
        • The Economy of the Greek Cities
        • Copernicus and Modern Astronomy
        • 9 Algorithms that Changed the Future
        • The Expressiveness of the Body
        • An Examen of Witches
    • Laura Mixon
      • Laura Can't Believe
      • Shattertown Sky
      • ePilgrim’s Progress
    • Le Morte D’Arthur Design Notes
      • Launching the Project
      • Conflict Behaviors
      • Kingly Stature
      • Puzzles Versus Interaction
      • Mordredly Purposeful Dilemmmas
      • Feuds
      • Resumption
      • Warrior Versus King
      • Imaginary Characters
      • Orders of Intentionality
      • Never Mind
      • Military Operations
      • Version 0.01
      • Version 0.02
      • Version 0.03
    • JCGD
      • Lilan
        • How Systems Fail
        • My Own Vision
        • Design Precepts
        • Dramatic Approximation
        • Inimical?
        • Interactivizing Stories
        • Plot Versus Interactivity
        • Programming for People
        • The Nature of Play
        • The Network
        • Theme and Interactivity
        • Two Cultures Again
        • What’s Recursion?
        • The Dark Side of Play
        • Koalas Versus Goats
      • JCGD Volume 9
        • Braggadocio Versus Bravura
        • Dreams, Stories, and Games
        • The Need for Speed
        • Why Is Interactivity So Hard?
        • Linguistic Approach
        • New Programming Styles
        • Still Not Keeping Up
        • Not Ready for Prime Time
        • Power
        • Reading Habits
        • Who Needs Hollywood?
        • The March of Abstraction
        • Advice to a Young Programmer
        • Computer Games Are Dead
        • CrawPhaedrus
        • Finding Algorithms
        • The Role of Death
        • Systems of Survival
        • Cambrian Era
        • Little Languages
        • Goodbye
      • IED Volume 8
        • Deratting
        • How to Play God
        • Two Books
        • Culture of Instability
        • East Coast Developers' Conference
        • Evolutionary Game Design
        • Sophomorism
        • Barrels o’ Fun
        • Representation Versus Depiction
        • Asymmetric Interactive Relationships
        • Networked Interpersonal Games
        • Plot, Free Will, etc
        • Lord Berkeley
        • Auteurs Versus Teams
        • Design by Cloning
        • Hollywood Envy
        • Matha-Claus is Coming to Town
        • Play and Mentation
        • Ambiguity
        • Societal Models
        • The Two Cultures War
      • JCGD Volume 7
        • Fundamentals of Interactivity
        • Intellectual Integrity
        • The Madness of Roland
        • Segmentation Considerations
        • Ga-Ga over Graphics
        • Algorithmic Thinking
        • Revolution and Apocalypse
        • Myst
        • Box Copy
        • Objects Versus People
        • The Perils of GroupThink
        • Phylogeny & Ontogeny
        • Flawed Methods
        • Understanding Comics
        • Control Versus Interactivity
        • Disney Brouhaha
        • Enconium Negativism
        • I Told Ya So
        • Doom
        • The Net
        • The Mannikin and the Black Box
        • Personality Modeling
      • JCGD Volume 6
        • ISDN
        • Audience Engineering
        • Inverse Parser
        • Copy Protection
        • Better Metaphor
        • Expositorions
        • Spatial Versus Verbal
        • I Had A Dream
        • Whither the Journal?
      • JCGD Volume 5
        • Videogames
        • The Atari Years
        • It Ain’t Art
        • How to Build a World
        • Low-Interactivity
        • Patents, Poobahs, and Peasants
        • A Grain of Sand, A Gust of Wind
        • Repent!
        • 1992 CGDC Report
        • Get Professional!
        • Five Years
        • Lessons from Patton Strikes Back
        • 1992 CGDC Survey
      • JCGD Volume 4
        • Gamer as Enemy
        • Reviewing the Reviewers
        • Self-Publishing Part 2
        • My Definition
        • Self-Publishing Part 3
        • My First Game
        • Synthetic Creations
        • Elementary Arithmetic Methods
        • The Evolution of Taste
        • A Graphics Trick
        • Self-Publishing, Part 3b
        • The Evolution of Graphics
        • Another Year, Another Dollar
        • Modern Times
        • Types of Play
        • CGDC Survey Statistics
      • JCGD Volume 3
        • The BBS Moves to GEnie
        • Pity the Poor Consumer
        • Fire & Brimstone
        • CD-ROM Games
        • Ten Years Ago
        • AB3280
        • Indirection
        • Buffoonian
        • Faces
        • Self-Publishing
        • Color Versus Resolution
      • JCGD Volume 2
        • Formal Association?
        • The BBS is up!
        • What is a Computer?
        • Applause instead of victory
        • Pac-Man = Zork
        • Geometric AI for Patton Versus Rommel
        • Credit Assignment Revisited
        • Two Years Before the Masthead
        • The Primacy of Interactivity
      • JCGD Volume 1
        • Siboot
        • Arithmetic Methods
        • Better Days
        • Boston Computer Museum
        • Credit Assignment
        • Egotism
        • First GDC
        • Game Designer's Life
        • Incompetence
        • The Interaction Circuit
        • Not Keeping Pace
        • Other Media
        • Process Intensity
        • R&D Spending on Games
        • Scribes Versus Authors
        • Software Awards
        • Holodeck
        • Triumph & Failure
        • Women's Lib
        • Three Levels of Interaction
    • Game Design
      • Trinary Life
      • What Do Women Want?
      • Digital Cameras
      • Adventures with Windows 7
      • Tyranny of the Visual
      • Statistics
      • Education of a Game Designer
      • Emergence
      • Artists and Technologists
      • Rabid Readers
      • Tool and Hand
      • Purple Moon
      • Once Upon Atari
      • Hyperfiction Community
      • Advanced Tinkertoy Text
      • Extrapolation Algorithm
      • Florin & Embert
      • Sad Tale
      • New Principles
      • Peril
      • Integrity
      • Dumb Code Versus Smart Code
      • Where's the Creativity?
      • A Rigorous Measure for Interactivity
      • Causal Immediacy
      • Morality
      • Middle Aged Software
      • Self Confidence, Egotism, and Prudence
      • Eye Candy
      • Technological Capriciousness
      • Here we go again
      • A Safe Sex Game
      • Design Diary: Balance of the Planet
        • June 2nd
        • June 3rd
        • June 4th
        • June 5th
        • June 6th
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        • June 22nd
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        • July 6th
        • July 22nd
        • July 25th
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        • July 29th
        • July 31
        • August 3rd
        • August 4th
        • September 2nd
        • September 17th
        • October 6th
        • October 8th
        • October 12th
        • November 6th
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        • December 5th
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        • January 15th
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        • February 1st
        • February 2nd
        • February 3rd
        • February 4th
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        • February 11th
        • February 15th
        • February 17th
        • February 23rd
        • February 29th
        • March 7th
        • March 12th
        • March 20th
        • March 25th
        • July 7th
        • August 1st
        • August 24th
        • September 3rd
        • September 8th
        • Art Specifications
    • Phrontisterion
      • Phrontisterion 1
      • Phrontisterion 2
        • Rick Smith's Report
      • Phrontisterion 3
        • Rick Smith 2
      • Phrontisterion 4
        • Crawford Reacts
      • Phrontisterion 5
        • Breitreiter
        • Grueter
        • James
        • Mellon
        • Pierce
        • Smith
        • Walton
      • Phrontisterion 6
      • Phrontisterion 7
    • Erasmus The Hero
      • Erasmus
      • Formative Years
      • Quotations
      • Courage
      • Adages
      • Modern
      • Latinity
      • Peacemaker
      • AntiSemitic
      • Rampant!
      • Don't Read Erasmus
      • Ludosophist
      • Mass Medium
      • Change
      • Harry May
      • Not Gay
        • Jacob Batt
        • Male Friendship
        • Claims
        • The Professor
        • Servatius
        • Latin v English
        • Writing Style
        • Thomas Grey
        • The Cutoff
        • No Accusations
        • Bias
        • Italy
        • Criteria for love
        • Other Comments
        • Dr. Norton
        • Second Exchange
        • Servatius Letter
        • Heinrich Eppendorf
        • Letter to Unknown Person
    • Politics
      • Oslo
      • Election
      • The Eve of War
      • Doom of Bush
      • A Day's Work
      • Judeo-Christian?
      • Hiroshima
      • Doubly Doomed
      • Reasonable Bush Supporter
        • Bush Supporter
        • Conclusion of Sorts
      • Fable
      • Evolution and Politics
      • Libertarianism
      • Bloggers
      • Cowardly Americans
      • Democracy in Iraq
      • Climate Change Science
      • Denunciation
      • Denialists
      • ClimateGate
      • If I Were King
      • Sarah Palin
      • BeleagueredHero
      • The Senate
      • The Price of Defying Rationalism
      • Superdogs
      • Rad Waste Disposal
      • Man of the Year
      • Pleistocene Hunter Gatherers
      • The Disintegration of the American Body Politic
      • Hate
      • HBD
      • Post Election Thoughts
      • Intellectual Cowards
    • Science
      • Mechanical Laser
      • Rosy-Fingered Dawn
      • Mao Science
      • Second Thermo
      • How Science Works
      • Tyrannosaurus Rex
      • DNA
      • Phylogeny of Play
      • Information
      • Male Sweating
      • Life in the Sun
      • Just So Stories
      • Visual Metaphor
      • Information Physics
      • Creeps to Leaps
      • Perseid Project
        • Short How to Participate
        • Call For Programmers
        • Long How to Participate
        • How to Observe
        • Meteor Science
        • Analysis Strategy
        • Perseid Geometry
        • Radiant Lineup
        • Statistical Analysis
        • Perseid FAQ
        • Perseid Results
      • Artifacts and Thieves
      • Really Smart Cars
      • Motivations Versus Results
      • Semantic Waist-Spreading
      • Leonids
        • Fine Structure
        • Streamer Motion
        • 2001 Leonids
          • Rick Smith Leonids
        • Leonid Analysis
        • Leonid Analysis Diary
          • January 8th
          • January 10th
          • January 11th
          • January 14th
          • January 15th
          • January 28th
          • January 30th
          • February 1st
          • February 3rd
          • February 6th
          • A Strange Leonid
          • February 13th
          • February 16th
          • February 25th
          • February 27th
          • March 12th
          • March 17th
          • March 19th
          • March 20th
          • March 22nd
          • March 23rd
          • March 24th
          • March 25th
          • March 26th
          • March 27th
          • March 28th
          • April 2nd
          • April 20th
          • April 23rd
          • April 25th
        • Final Conclusions 2011
        • Leonid Mission
        • 1972 Geminids
      • Hydraulic Laser
      • 2012 Perseid Project
      • Lake Vostok
      • Sunlight, Snow, and a Twig
      • Annular Eclipse
    • My Books
      • Balance of Power
      • You Should Learn to Program
        • Chapter 1
        • Chapter 2
        • Chapter 3
        • Chapter 4
        • Chapter 5
        • Chapter 6
        • Chapter 7
        • Chapter 8
        • Appendix
        • How Transistors Work
      • The Art of Interactivity Design
      • CC on Interactive Storytelling
    • Life in General
      • Salute to Ali-Basti
      • Innocence
      • Integrity
      • Will Durant
      • Dr. Johnson
      • Lunacy
      • When Algorithms Go Bad
      • Natural Exercise
      • Pounding Dirt
      • Goodbye Star Trek
      • How to Speak
      • Colonization Economics
      • Aliens Must Be Nice
      • Contemptible Breeders
      • Strategic Thinking
      • Iconic Photographs
      • Immortal Souls
      • Imagine
      • The Sixes and the Eights
      • How to Scratch an Itch
    • The Mind
      • Dreams
      • Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Now
      • How To Think
        • Failure of Imagination
        • Uncluttering
        • Operational Approach
        • Broad Induction
        • Boolean Foolishness
        • Counter-Inspiration
      • Consciousness
      • Network Effects
      • History of Thinking
        • Core Argument
        • Themes
          • Mathematics
          • Science
          • Law
        • Map
        • Before Hominids
          • Nervous Systems
          • Sequentialism
          • Primates
          • Hominids
        • Before Civilization
          • The Homo Genus
          • Mental Modules
          • Sex
          • Language
          • Verbal Reasoning
          • Language Takes Over
          • Mental Modules Interact
        • Early Civilization
          • Invention of Writing
          • Trade in the Levant
            • Minoans
            • The Bronze Age Collapse
          • Mesopotamian Law
          • Egyptians
          • The Alphabet
          • The Achaeans
            • Tacking
            • The Greeks
              • Socrates & Plato
              • A Tale of Two Cities
              • Definitions
              • Crito
              • Aristotle
          • Inconsistency
          • The Phoenicians
          • Cicero
          • Religion
          • The First Council of Nicaea
          • Chinese
          • Chinese Science and Technology
          • An example of Chinese Logic
          • India
        • Medieval & Renaissance
          • The Arab Contribution
          • Religion and Rationalism
          • The Reformation
          • Cognates
          • Etymologies
          • Trials
        • Modern Times
          • Rationalism Seeps In
          • Triumph of Logic
          • The Age of Reason
          • Science & Law
          • Narrative
          • Proof
        • Bibliography
        • Index
      • Earworms
      • When did Past Tense Arise?
    • Videos of Chris
      • Video Visits, Part 1 1982?
      • Video Visits, Part 2 1982?
      • Video Visits, Part 3, 1982?
      • Computer Chronicles, 1984
      • Balance of the Planet 1990
      • Bits, Bytes, and Buzzwords
      • Incredible Technologies
      • Creativity and Game Design, 1988
      • Fundamentals of Interactivity
      • The Mystique of the Loop, 1989
      • Revolution
      • The Phylogeny of Play
      • The Dragon Speech, 1993
      • Into the Night, 2009
      • Immotivator
      • Mesa Community College
      • Teeside
    • Skunkies
      • Heavy Weather
      • Network Solutions FTP
      • Anonymous PC
      • Computer Languages
      • Windows
      • Microsoft Word
      • Computers
    • People Through History
      • Maria Gunning
      • David Atchison
      • Mucius Scaevola
      • Reinhold Pabel
      • Ulrich von Hutten
      • Gavrilo Princip
      • Otto Skorzeny
    • Interactive Storytelling
      • Peter Pan
      • Wendy
      • Brute Force
      • The Statement of Affinity
  • Personal Stuff
    • Reminiscences
      • The Pendulum
      • Charlie
      • My Ball
      • Jaws
      • Frogger-Rogger
      • An Old Joke
      • Hey Jude
      • Faint Memories
      • Fogey Music
    • Experiences
      • Tractor Repairs
      • CGDC
      • A Heroic Effort
      • Internet Discussions
      • Screwed by United Airlines
    • Thoughts and Opinions
      • Waste Not, Trash Not
      • Drab Heroes
      • Requiem for Jane
      • Random Questions
      • Consumerism
      • Bedside Notes
      • One-Liners
      • Dinosaurized
        • The Lone Wolf Gets Sociable?
        • The "More Java" Option
        • Wading into Java Servlets
        • Oh, My Aching Head!
        • Embracing my Inner Dinosaur
        • Open Source?
        • Four Doors
        • Decision
      • Opinionation
      • Fine Art
    • Self
      • The Mirror-Realization
      • Sixty
      • Voice Recognition
      • Answering Machine Messages
      • Music
      • Sixty One
      • Behavioral Spoonerisms
      • Work Habits
      • Schizophrenic
      • A Revealing Dream
      • Life Goals
      • Famous Ancestor
    • Personal Photos
    • Travelogue
      • Bremen
      • The Ash Cloud Saga
      • A Trip to India
      • Where I've Been
      • Australia
      • UC Santa Cruz Conference
      • Georgia Tech
      • Amsterdam
    • Gargoyle Gulch
      • Ancient History
      • 1966
      • 1975
      • 1980
      • 1985
      • 1991
      • 1996
      • 2001
      • Oak Trees
      • Four Trees
      • 2010
    • Weird Projects
      • The Gateway
        • Gateway Part 2
        • Death of the Gargoyle
      • The Blade
      • Duckhenge
      • Meadow Laser
        • Meadow Laser 2.0
      • History Necklace
        • Sikhote Alin Meteorite
        • Banded Iron
        • Butterstone
        • Stromatolite
        • Trilobite
        • Crinoids
        • Petrified Wood
        • Oregon Rock
        • Dinosaur Tooth
        • KT Boundary Clay
        • Baltic Amber
        • Megalodon
        • Horse Vertebra
        • Lower Paleolithic Chopper
        • Wooly Mammoth Ivory
        • Mazama Eruption Wood
        • Sumerian Bead
        • Viru Bead
        • Egyptian Faience Bead
        • Pompeii Pumice
        • Cadbury Castle Sherd
        • Crusader Trade Bead
        • Trilobate Arrowhead
        • Mongol Arrowhead
        • Parchment Document
        • Concepcion Piece of Eight
        • Qing Dynasty Bead
        • Russian 1812 Kopek
        • Minie Ball
        • Titanic Coal
        • Ju-88 Fragment
        • Trinitite
        • Silicon
        • Berlin Wall
        • Bead
    • Cast of Critters
      • Moose
      • Auggie
      • Carla
      • Daphne
      • Darby
      • Elmo & Emma
      • Francesca
      • Fred
      • Izzy
      • Khublai Khat
      • Kinky
      • Oecolampadius
      • Pookey
      • Rocky Raccoon
      • Sigibert
      • Smokey
      • Spooky
      • Thyka
      • Tony Tiger
      • Willow
      • Molly
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