Hwang Woo-suk is Guilty!
After three years and 43 hearings, the Korean court finally decided to put an end to the whole Hwang scandal. Hwang was sentenced to 2 years in prison but the […]
Facebook is slow in developing microtransactions content
Facebook announced that it is now selling music; a move that I believe took extremely long, given that music was a huge driving force for Myspace and Cyworld. I sometimes […]
The fun factor
As complicated as games can get these days, I think developers sometimes forget a very important factor that makes games successful: fun. This post was triggered directly by this video, […]
Personal updates
I’m doing research on a bunch of interesting things; social science is so fascinating because you’re studying human subjects and their behavior, trying to determine causality and effects by quantitative […]
Lady Gaga and Couture
I am appalled by how certain media and ignorant bloggers say Lady Gaga has a poor sense of fashion. Of course, fashion could be somewhat subjective, but it is an […]
The fantasy of Asian men: female images in games
Asian men have fantasies about women that tend to fall into two drastic stereotypes: the innocent, naive virgin and the mean femme fatale. Healthy, funny, sound-of-mind types (think of what […]
Biased video game studies
I’ve ranted about this before, but I really hate when social scientists conduct studies that produce results that are obviously going to support what they are looking for due to […]
Jeronimos Monastery
Lisbon was, for me, a bit of a disappointment, but there were a few memorable things, like the church at Jeronimos Monastery, which had beautiful vaulted ceilings. The tomb of […]
D. Yvette Wohn 