Finally finished Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance. Fun, satisfying game, even with a lopsided character and I didn’t figure out how to apply magic to my arrows until I was halfway through.

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My last post on Apple IIe games that frustrated me as a kid got a fair amount of reader love, so I thought I would write about some of my all-time favorite Apple IIe games. Here are the entertainments I loved so much, I lost sleep playing them. These games rocked, even in their green-screen, floppy-disk-swapping glory.

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I’ll be taking a break from this blog for the rest of today and at the very least, Sunday and most of Christmas day proper. I figure now is the time to do it. But I’ll be back posting some amusing stuff on Tuesday and Wednesday for sure.

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It looks like you’ll be able to use the Opera web browser to surf the web on a Wii - even using the Wiimote.

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Here’s a pretty ridiculous website: Alexadex. It’s some kind of game where people buy pretend shares in websites. When their Alexa traffic rating goes up, so does the share price. You start out with $10,000 pretend dollars and try to make pretend money. Sounds kind of like Second Life. How do people come up with this stuff?

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Pretty cutting yet largely logical article about Second Life at Valleywag. It basically points out the hype around this virtual world and questions its seeming ubiquity. Here’s another one at Techdirt, and some great analysis at reBang.

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Many of you have probably already checked out Pandora (you type in a favorite song and it tries to find similar ones). Here’s another site that uses some information from you to dig up music: Musicovery.

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This afternoon my wife and I went to check out our friend’s Wii at a “Wii party” - he got it last week. There were a bunch of people trying the thing out, having a great time playing the Wii sports of tennis, boxing, golf, and bowling.

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Amusing AppleInsider article here about an analyst suggesting Apple might want to get into gaming, either through more games on the iPod Video or possibly through its upcoming iTV.

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So Second Life was proving to be rather surreal, and stupid, because didn’t have any money (and don’t want to pay real dollars for Linden ones). It’s a big problem, because most of the environments are malls and clubs where there’s stuff for sale, and I couldn’t get my hands on any of it. However, today I did manage to score $200 (yes!) - how this happened I’ll explain below.

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