http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx"Can large groups of widely scattered people, working together voluntarily on the net, report on something happening in their world right now, and by dividing the work wisely tell the story more completely, while hitting high standards in truth, accuracyen-USCommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#90736Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:49:19 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:90736Jason, Pittsburgh, PAMy dad will always upgrade. His best friend took the crappier car, ended up in a head on collision with a drunk and was killed. The investigation showed that had the rental company had the mid-size he wanted or if he had taken the upgrade, he would have likely survived. Dad's always rented a mid-size and taken the upgrade if they're out of the mid-size since.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#90739Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:50:05 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:90739KazI think the problem with "iPod killers" is that they try to do too much. I think the reason the iPod is so popular is because it stikes that balance between offering technology and being simple. Maybe it is just me, but "recommending" music sounds more like a way to sell more music than a way of helping me. I put the music I want to listen to on my iPod and listen to it. If I want to discover new music, I'll put on the radio (and take my chances), or talk to my friends and co-workers. The more complex, technologically, you make something (and again, from these blubs, it is hard to tell just how easy or difficult this thing is to use), the more you narrow your market.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#90868Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:35:01 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:90868AJ, OhioThis Sphere game is maddening...I've found 11 objects, but what the heck do I do with them now? http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#90917Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:51:43 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:90917Patti, Yorktown Heights, New YorkGlad you're back!http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#90979Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:18:49 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:90979Michael TullbergHey Will, "Globally, dead skin accounts for about a billion tons of dust in the atmosphere." See? Global warmning IS caused by humans after all. Time to break out the giant nuclear-powered Hoovermatic.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#91319Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:38:14 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:91319Lauren Battaglia, Campbell, CAThe Digg site has a link to the Duclod guys website. Didn't like all the stuff that starts popping up. I shut down my Explorer..just a heads up.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#91381Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:07:14 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:91381Paul, Alamo, CASphere is hard. I collected the items, got the key, lit up the butterfly and wrote the page. But, I do not see how to get the water.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#91401Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:12:54 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:91401Sterling, Tallahassee, FLSphere game: Hmmm... well I got the butterfly to show up, and the rubbing, but there's something about the frog and watering that isn't adding up. Click games can be fun, but this one seems to take pleasure in the notion of being more vague and more obscure than necessary. Of course it's been a long day and perhaps I'm just being slow. There's something about a walkthrough in April. We'll see.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#91507Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:10:41 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:91507Chris, NENine Inch Nails offered GarageBand files with their last album as well; so it's not exactly "new".http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#91653Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:35:13 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:91653Jason, Clinton, OhioI beat it! I am freeeeee!http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#91695Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:36:54 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:91695Rob, PhillyHey Will, Than lineto thing is way cool. Have you seen yugop.com?http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#91704Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:52:55 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:91704Joe S, West Chester, PAI figured the Sphere game out! I couldn't stop playing, took about 3 hours (don't tell my boss). After you get items, things change in the room. The books have hints in them. Have fun.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#91779Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:42:22 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:91779Steve P, Fresno, CAre: superhero kills pres, it occurred to me recently that this particular author, Warren Ellis, wrote what you might call a neocon superhero comic, if you subscribe to the belief that neocons are simply liberal do-gooders with guns (I don't, but anyway). Warren Ellis started The Authority as a sort of spinoff from Stormwatch, a UN sanctioned kick ass/take names team. Basically, The Authority says, what if these superpowered types actually went around beating the crap out of dictators and tried to make the world a better place on a large scale. Of course the power cabals that run the world won't let them get away with that, but it is cracking good fun and makes you realize how incredibly myopic Superman can be. Oh, and it had a gay couple version of Superman & Batman. All available and collected in paperback. Highly recommended.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#91824Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:33:30 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:91824Cindy W., Redmond, WASphere is one of the more beautiful point-n-click "room escapers," even if it is a bit challenging. Useful hints (and a walkthrough, I think) can be found in the lazylaces discussion forum: http://lazylaces.com/article.asp?p=2503#comments Lazylaces.com is a great place to find escape-the-room and other point-n-click games. I check it every week to see what new games are out. Many of them come from Europe and Japan, where these seem to be quite popular. http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#92046Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:36:37 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:92046Nobody, Nowhere1. The toll-call game shows aren't unique to the U.K., there are cos. which buy blocks of time on cable channels here in the U.S. and run them. I think they legally consist of "sweepstakes", and that there is some U.S. requirement that there be a method of "free" entry, so you can also play via internet. 2. The duclod story is yet to be fleshed out, but your point about mobs forming is well taken, and very disturbing. Hoaxes and semi-hoaxes are quite in fashion these days. It would be very easy to ruin someone by posting false information and letting the mob do the rest. It's just a matter of time before a few of these types of things end disastrously.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#92171Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:27:59 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:92171Red, AlabamaHey Will, that yugop.com link that Rob, Philly mentioned popped up a virus warning for me....? Did you try it out?http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#92345Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:58:14 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:92345Jason, Pittsburgh, PAAfter a full day of listening to slacker.com at work, I can say I like some things. I want it to do more though. I want to be able to add a song or an artist to a station. I can't figure out how to do that yet. What I LOVE is that if you hover over the button for slacker.com on the toolbar, it tells you what the current song is, who the artist is, and what album it is from. I always wanted a player to do that and none I've ever used have (not Win Media Player, not pandora, not finetune). At work, I'd rather not have the full-screen version up and this is even better than a minimally-sized window.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#92373Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:25:45 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:92373CE, Nortwest USAWill, I just want you to know that I signed up for the free Slacker account, and it is the best online radio station I have heard so far. If the product turns out to be as good as the website, it will totally kick butt! Great Music!http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#92523Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:09:34 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:92523Paul, Alamo, CASphere turned out to be a nice one - nicely rendered and just hard enough to give me pause. You do not need to look at hints (I think someone pointed to some). But, make sure you click in enough places (it has some narrow areas for two of the important parts).http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#92637Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:32:16 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:92637Will FemiaRed, I played with it a little and didn't have any alarms go off or any weird results. My machine was real slow to load some of it though and rather than wait I just moved on to the parts that loaded more quickly. Maybe if I'd been more patient my machine would have had more time to react to anything negative.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#92647Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:49:59 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:92647LVI've gotten some of the Sphere items to work but the ones that don't are really frustrating! I'm going to be obsessed until I finish, I fear...http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#92769Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:18:09 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:92769noI beat it hahahahahttp://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/15/90659.aspx#191115Tue, 15 May 2007 01:28:12 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:191115SaveOurSkylineI really enjoyed Sarah's articles too, until I started examining them. I found no less than eleven factual problems with her article. Is "Richard" really as psychotic as he seems? What was Sarah's motivation? I've outlined my findings here: http://saveourskyline.livejournal.com/1127.htmlM