social science meets mmorpgs

From a post on PlayOn, a blog on the social dimensions of virtual worlds:

[quotey]

After the previous analysis, we ran an additional one that included the character gender variable. Here, our results were puzzling. Across all of our metrics, male characters were better connected than female characters. And this was true for all classes, with the only exception of Priests. In other words, male characters of all classes are better connected than female characters of all classes, except for female Priests, who are better connected than male Priests. This gender difference was clear and consistent across our three measures of centrality.

[/quotey]

And there are BAR GRAPHS!

emotions suck

T-Rex on emotions...

[quotey] This occurs simply because these people are placing their emotions over the warm embrace of cold, steely logic. [/quotey]

I wish the movie Equilibrium, set in a dystopic future in which emotions are squelched by drugs, were better. Because the warm embrace of cold, steely logic should totally win out over sucky emotions.

breakfast

For breakfast, I am having a Krispy Kreme raspberry jam-filled donut (alas, not warm-fresh from the store) and a cup of lemon-ginger herbal tea. The tea reminds me of Froot Loops, oddly. This brand, Twinings, is not as good as Yogi Tea. Yogi Tea is so new-agey, though. I mean, they really want you to understand that a real, live yogi is behind the company.