The other night, I actually took a break from work to hang out with people -- one of those self-enforced, “if I don’t do this I’ll go completely insane” sort of breaks, and man was it incredible -- and at some point during the night we wound up looking up POGs on wikipedia (I’m not going to bother explaining why), and that led us to this site, which offers a number of options for playing POGs online.

The great thing about finals week is it's the perfect time to catch up on the archives of all the different webcomics I've been meaning to read.

It's striking me as rather interesting, actually, how comics transfer from the newspaper to the net. The fact that you *can* read the archives, for one, the sense that there are small segments of a larger work, and the larger work is important enough to merit saving to old pieces. It also makes it a lot easier, I think, for authors to create more complex storylines, because they can assume the audience has read the entire story, or can if they get lost (sometimes there are links off to the side, directing the reader to relevent back story). There are certainly a lot that are still rather disconnected isolated strips by the same person in the same style, but I find longer, more...epic? comics are far more prevelant on the web (and far more interesting & easier to get in to than mary worth & prince valiant).

No mind-bending explorations of theory from me this time around. Actually, I wandered across wikiHow whilst procrastinating, and I thought I'd pass it on. An interesting knowledge base, from how to gain the trust of a recently abused horse, to how to appreciate death metal. Joking aside, it looks like a nice use of this kind of community software.