…And The Floods Moved North

The rains this weekend swelled the rivers to flood stage in south-western New Hampshire. As much as half of Keene is said to be under water. Further north, the small and historic downtown of Alstead has been washed away.
This picture comes from the Portsmouth Herald, and reports in the Washington Post from Keene and Alstead [...]

Wide World of Video Games

Matt started talking up the weird issues developing around multiplayer online games a few weeks ago. Then soon after he blogged it, a story appeared in On the Media (listen, transcript)
Short story: online gaming is huge — one developer claims four million paying customers. More significantly, the interplay between real and virtual worlds might create [...]

The Old Scooter

“Hey, you’re that dork on the scooter, aren’t you?” they’d say.