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I have been following the madness that is the presidential campaign and it's pretty clear that Obama is going to win. That is, if you can do math. The news reports a much closer race because that's how they make money. It's over, the GOP loses.

I have been thinking a lot about how people organize or fixate on a singular issue. Also I have thought about people who persist in the face of absolute, incontrovertible self-error. Conflict resolution is not explored much in social networking circles other than basic verbal communication. What is the Internet equivalent of flipping a coin? How do you shuffle a deck of cards? What if all I wanted was a guaranteed third-party website to shuffle a deck of cards, flip a coin, or pick a random number for a mutual trust game? Sorta like open source gambling, I guess.

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There are more important games being developed, for sure, but I'm interested in something completely different. I am working on my first social networking game and I hope to release it before the election. *sigh* So much work to do. Basically it will address these gaping holes in the Internet social networking culture that has sprung up around the micro-blogging sites like Twitter, Pownce, Plurk, and the rest.