Autism and Second Life

Great brief piece on CNN's site today about a place in Second Life, Naughty Auties, developed by a young man with Asperger's Syndrome, meant to give those with autism a place to meet online and to provide more information about the autism spectrum disorders.

CNN is going to focus on autism spectrum disorders all day on Wednesday April 2.

Another surgery game

I spent way too much time playing this last night -- Amateur Surgeon, a game from [adult swim].

You play a pizza boy with an interest in surgery who operates on a variety of interesting characters, using a pool table in an old warehouse as his OR and a mismash of tools (stapler, lighter, pizza cutter), under the supervision of a disgraced surgeon.

I had to give up last night after I killed poor Claude 4 times...