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phpMMORPG is a Web interface that can be used to create an MMORPG with a back-end which permits users of the interface to create their own games. It features real-time chat, a map editor, a template system, a quest box, PVP, PVE, a loot system, and other functions. Except for the use of “marquee”, it uses 100% XHTML 1.0. [via via] Link.
This July 10-16, my friends Gever and Julie are running “The Tinkering School,” a one-week summer camp in Montara, CA for kids aged 7 and up who want to build things. The session will culminate with the construction and riding of a small roller-coaster, with parents welcome to join the fun. Great people, beautiful setting, unique learning experience. Link.
Sony is introducing “Sterile Burning” where owners of CDs can only burn one copy, but not copy of copies. Holding the shift key on CD insert or using a non-Windows OS will likely get around all this. The technology Sony is testing, which was developed by a UK anti-piracy firm, First4Internet, allows for copying ripped and burned tracks from a copy-protected disc to a blank CD in WMA format. The DRM on the disc remains intact and prevents the CD from being duplicated. Link.
If you have to pay taxes on virtual property, can you insure your virtual property? Sunday’s New York Times picked up the theme in The Game is Virtual. The Profit is Real (5/29), which discussed the growing market for virtual property used in on-line games like Second Life, The Sims, Ultima Online, World of Warcraft. Players buy and sell virtual property on sites like eBay, Ige, and Gamingopenmarket, with the Times noting annual profits of 25k, 100k or more taxable to the gamers. Some of the sites even allow on-line charitable contributions. Link.
Our TVs are safe for now! Maybe (Previous info and interview here). The Motion Picture Association of America is unlikely to push for a broadcast flag component in DTV legislation establishing a 2008 hard date because the bill’s main author, House Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX), is against the provision. Meanwhile, the MPAA will keep briefing House and Senate members on a broadcast flag bill’s importance and seek other ways to get the content protections it wants. [via] Link.
History of the video game controller- How did the current home-console controllers come to be? How have they evolved? You may have noticed some similarities between the current generation controllers, or between them and the previous generations of controllers. So, how do they all tie together? [via] Link.
The DIY Audio site is filled with a ton of projects and resources: Pass Labs, Solid State, Chip Amps, Tubes, Class D, Analogue, Digital Loudspeakers, Musical Instruments, Music, Introductions, a Market Place, Electronics Parts and Car Audio. The diyAudio wiki is a collaborative effort to create the ultimate DIY reference site. You can create or edit any Wiki page you like, anywhere you like Link. Thanks Sam!
