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-The Essential Blender quote: “Guide to 3D Creation with the Open Source Suite Blender”-

Last night I dreamt I was at a party and a bunch of us got together and squshed someone against the wall. We were having fun, but as she was at the very bottom of this whole deal, she was not. O, the flamboyant lapses of judgment we have in dreams!

Being the silly geek I am (now armed with Firefox!) I found a neat little browser extension yesterday: the Passively Multiplayer Online Game. It’s basically like a MMORPG for lazy people – you rack up coins (called Datapoints) for every webpage you visit. Then you can use these coins to buy Crates, Mines, Lampposts, Armor, Portals, and St. Nicks. Crates allow you to leave money or stuff on websites for the next PMOG player to loot; mines are similar, except that they blow up in the next person’s face (shaking the browser window in the process) and subtract DP from their savings. However, you can counter mines with armor (each piece of armor blocks 3 mines) or St. Nicks, which will foil the person’s next attempt at laying a mine. Since mines are a sizable 40 dp, this can be quite the revenge.

Lampposts and portals are the tourist side of PMOG – and, you might argue, its most important elements once you’ve gotten over your rush for mayhem and counter-mayhem. A lamppost forms part of a mission, which is essentially a user-made tour through a set of websites, often a obscure and off the beaten track. Missions are also the primary determinants of association, basically the factions you are part of as you level up. Portals just zap you blindly from one site to another.

Really fun little game, since you can practically level up on autopilot if you want to, or take a more active role if you feel like it. It's like a giant game of tag across the internet.

http://pmog.com/

Reality check. If you start see an ad from the Bedouin association, it is not a dream, but PMOG.