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Was just chuckling at the idea of using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to play online board games; after all this is where Amazon got the name. Would be fun to set up a service to allow users to play games this way. I’m sure the quality of opponent wouldn’t be amazing – especially in games like chess where moves are required to be setup in many cases.

I’m still working on a theme for this site. Out of boredom here’s a snapshot of how it looks so far. Still need to get the sidebar and comments incorporated.

On a related topic Lauren has put up a blog now too, go check it out.

In completely unrelated news the Penny Arcade game rocks.