i’ve tentatively signed up to the Realm Wars MMOG project. looks okay. plays okay, but boy is it clunky still. guess that’s why it’s a beta version 
oh well.
here’s some books that i’ve been reading that you might be interested in having a look at (i’m so used to using the BML codes at livejournal that i almost did a "cut" here.. you know the old "read more.." tag):
Steps to an ecology of mind : collected essays in anthropology, psychiatry, evolution, and epistemology / Bateson, Gregory
Undoing the social : towards a deconstructive sociology / Game, Ann
Desperately seeking the audience / Ang, Ien
Researching lived experience : human science for an action sensitive pedagogy / Van Manen, Max
The World Wide Web and contemporary cultural theory / Herman, Andrew
The complete guide to the music of Frank Zappa / Watson, Ben
Visual methodologies : an introduction to the interpretation of visual materials / Rose, Gillian
Developing media literacy in cyberspace : pedagogy and critical learning for the twenty-first- century classroom / Frechette, Julie D.
Get in the game! : careers in the game industry / Mencher, Marc
Ways of knowing : researching literacy / Knobel, Michele
Red Hat Linux 8 : your visual blueprint to an open source operating systems / Whitehead, Paul,
Making use of PHP / Appu, Ashok
All the rave: the rise and fall of Shawn Fanning’s Napster / Menn, Joseph
Realspace : the fate of physical presence in the digital age, on and off planet / Levinson, Paul
Using observations in small-scale research : a beginner’s guide / Simpson, Mary
Case study research in educational settings / Bassey, Michael
www and contemp cultural theory. 2000 Herman, a and swiss, t.
living with cyberspace. techno and society. 2002, armitage, j and roberts, j.
Perpetual contact : mobile communication, private talk, public performance / Katz, James Everett
Strategic warfare in cyberspace / Rattray, Gregory J.,
Futurenet : the past, present, and future of the internet as told by its creators and visionaries / Richards, Sally
Networks and netwars : the future of terror, crime, and militancy / Arquilla, John
Parables for the virtual : movement, affect, sensation / Massumi, BrianB
Atlas of cyberspace / Dodge, Martin,
Literacy theory in the age of the Internet / Taylor, Todd
The spirit of terrorism and requiem for the Twin Towers / Baudrillard, Jean. Esprit du terrorisme.
Pause & effect : the art of interactive narrative / Meadows, Mark Stephen
Understanding the psychology of Internet behaviour : virtual worlds, real lives / Joinson, Adam N.
Zones of conflict : US foreign policy in the Balkans and the greater Middle East / Fouskas, Vassilis
Mastering Linux / Danesh, Arman
Open source web development with LAMP : using Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl, and PHP / Lee, James B.
Transductions : bodies and machines at speed / Mackenzie, Adrian,
Intensive science and virtual philosophy / Delanda, Manuel
The researcher’s toolkit : the complete guide to practitioner research / Wilkinson, David,
E-research : methods, strategies, and issues / Anderson, Terry,
Machines that become us : the social context of personal communication technology / Katz, James Everett
