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		<title>New Ethshar Serial Starting</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/07/13/new-ethshar-serial-starting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After too long, Lawrence Watt-Evans is spinning up a new Ethshar serial &#8212; The Final Calling.  His Ethshar novels are excellent light fantasy, and are notable for having both a great amount of interesting, powerful magic as well as very believable, human characters that for the most part treat magic as just another phenomenon to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Plotkin&#8217;s Quixe Beta:  Glulx Games Directly In-Browser!</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/06/02/andrew-plotkins-quixe-beta-glulx-games-directly-in-browser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a surge of holiday-weekend coding, Andrew Plotkin (Zarf) has progressed his Quixe project to the beta stage and released it for evaluation.  If you&#8217;re very familiar with the excellent Parchment project, you&#8217;ll know that Parchment provides a Javascript implementation of the Z-machine, which is one of the major virtual machines used in the interactive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fruits of My &#8220;Research&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/04/07/the-fruits-of-my-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/?p=1637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently took what ended up as a 2 1/2 month break from interactive fiction development.  Most of that time got spent on Dragon Age, but I also played through Left 4 Dead 2 due to an offhand comment by Zarf on rec.arts.int-fiction.  In addition, over the Easter weekend I traveled to my in-laws for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game Review &#8212; Left 4 Dead 2</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/04/05/game-review-left-4-dead-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While gearing back up for some more interactive fiction development after my two-and-a-half-month detour through Dragon Age, I made a comment on rec.arts.int-fiction to the effect that the Drama Manager in Blue Lacuna, Aaron Reed&#8217;s XYZZY Award-winning interactive fiction title, was unique in my knowledge in terms of providing an auto-adapting pacing mechanism for gameplay. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dragon Age &#8212; Game Review</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/03/26/dragon-age-game-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/?p=1605</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of the year I took a &#8220;quick&#8221; break from development on my next interactive fiction title to play Dragon Age, which I got for Christmas from Robin.  I&#8217;m a big Bioware RPG fan from way back; I&#8217;ve played most of their titles over the years and have been really impressed at how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Seems I&#8217;m Actually A Woman&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/03/17/it-seems-im-actually-a-woman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/03/17/it-seems-im-actually-a-woman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had not come across this before, but there is an online analyzer for prose that purports to determine if the author is male or female, apparently by counting the frequency of certain keywords in your text. So I scraped the front page of my blog and fed it into the analyzer.  Although the count [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logorama</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/03/08/logorama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/?p=1567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I won&#8217;t comment about the Oscars (since I didn&#8217;t watch them) other than to say that the fact that Logorama won the best short film category is awesome. At least for now, it&#8217;s available through its homepage (slow, though) and these links: Part 1 Part 2]]></description>
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		<title>Implicit Association Test</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/02/10/implicit-association-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/?p=1513</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a very interesting website that purports to test your unconscious association between different classes of things.  Many of the tests are to identify whether you have a implicit preference for certain types of people (black or white, old or young, slim or overweight, etc.) but there are other tests that operate on names or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferb, I Know What We&#8217;re Going To Do Today</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/02/08/ferb-i-know-what-were-going-to-do-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/02/08/ferb-i-know-what-were-going-to-do-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t really watch a lot of cartoons these days.  I&#8217;m pretty busy with 3 kids, plus I generally prefer to read or play on the computer rather than watch TV.  When we do watch TV it&#8217;s usually The Biggest Loser or American Idol &#8212; shows that Robin and I both like and that we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hoosegow</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/02/02/hoosegow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re interested in one-room escape games, JayIsGames is hosting a competition for them.  One of the entrants is Hoosegow, an interactive fiction game by Ben Collins-Sussman and Jack Welch, the team behind this year&#8217;s IFComp winner Rover&#8217;s Day Out. I did some design review on this game, although I wasn&#8217;t able to beta the [...]]]></description>
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