Yesterday in Wired Blogs: Ubicomp, Pandemics, Goatse.wii, Mermen Neurosurgeons

• Game|Life finds a very neat browser game: “Pandemic will presumably teach impressionable schoolchildren to mutate, infect the water supply, and eventually kill all of mankind. That’s becase Pandemic is an interesting, morbid little strategy game where you are an infectious disease with the ability to mutate over time.” • When Yahoo! launched their Wii […]

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• Game|Life finds a very neat browser game: "Pandemic will presumably teach impressionable schoolchildren to mutate, infect the water supply, and eventually kill all of mankind. That's becase Pandemic is an interesting, morbid little strategy game where you are an infectious disease with the ability to mutate over time."

• When Yahoo! launched their Wii portal, they happily ignored their own Flickr terms of service, streaming all photos tagged 'Wii' to display on their home page. Upload an image of Goatse.cx to Flickr and tag it with Wii as payback? Why not?

Bruce Sterling has some interesting thoughts on ubiquitous computing: "Just as a thought experiment, imagine there was tagged ubicomp everyware in Baghdad today. Do you think there'd be more, or fewer teenage carbomb suicides and kidnappees with drill-holes in their heads? Can you really imagine there'd be some kind of eerie magical techno-calm there? It all depends on who's deploying the smart-dust and reading the screens, right?"

• Interesting: DaVinci's webbed fingers may actually have made him a better artist, as it would prevent his fingers from trembling. Why don't we see more fish men brain surgeons? At Bodyhack.

• Gear Factor reports that 97% of all Brits make snap judgments of others based on their ringtone. Not surprising, given the average Briton's fondness for Crazy Frog.