Hasbro has released a new edition of Monopoly in the UK. The new edition is called Monopoly Here & Now, and it is an updated version of the popular real estate game. Among its updates are the lack of paper money and the inclusion debit cards and a card scanner. Players will swipe their cards and punch in amounts during transactions that would have normally required cash.
The UK edition also updates some of the Community Chest and Chance cards, as well as some of the properties:
But the game had been modernized in many other ways. Some addresses have changed — and the game now includes Kensington Palace Gardens, near Buckingham Palace, and Notting Hill Gate, the setting of a 1999 movie starring Julia Roberts.
Cards that once rewarded players for winning a beauty contest now compensate them for winning a reality TV show. Completing a full circuit around the board is worth two million English pounds, not 200.
While I haven’t been playing a lot of Monopoly since graduating from college, I wouldn’t mind adding yet another edition of Monopoly to our collection. We currently have two different versions, a Collector’s tin and a Corvette edition. I just threw out our standard edition last week because it was damaged a couple years ago during our flood.
Well, it’s been ten days since my last post. That’s much longer than the few hours I had anticipated in it. To start things off, here are a couple of good things that have happened recently: Chris and I celebrated our second anniversary (three times) and I interviewed for and was offered a new job at the Administration Center! We have also gone to Ravinia twice, and seen a few movies.
I saw this video on YouTube and it’s not only hilarious, but right on with how our government wishes to control the internet:
The graphics that The Daily Show provided show exactly how many non-technical people (and probably some who think they’re technical) view the internet: a series of tubes. It does not help that people on both sides of the issue of net neutrality are coming up with such strange analogies, or bastardizing good analogies. Net neutrality is an important factor in maintaining the ease of use and the growth of the internet. A tiered global network would only make it easier to make an elitist internet, or at least make the existing internet even more separated.
btw, later today I should be posting about the happenings of the last few weeks (two trips to Ravinia, Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest, Superman Returns and more.
I don’t know what it was like living in the USA during World War II. I don’t recall many of the lessons from World History or AP US History in high school. Today, I ran across a comic strip titled How to Spot a Jap.
According to the site on which I found the strip, it was published by the US Army and Navy as part of The Pocket Guide to China. The guide was distributed to soldiers in China. The strip was inteded to help soldiers discern between Chinese and Japanese people. I’m not sure what I think of this.
On the one hand, many of the soldiers probably had little exposure to Asians and Pacific Islanders. The soldiers would therefore have difficulty telling the various Asian ethnicities apart, a skill that could be the difference between life and death. On the other hand, the comic strip is satirical in its portrayal of Chinese and Japanese people. The strip often makes note of how "normal" the Chinese appear, as opposed to the "abnormal" features of the Japanese. This bias was no doubt due to the US support of China (and our interests in China) during the war. Had it been the other way around, I’m sure it would have been the Chinese who were much more different from the Americans.
This comic was published during the Golden Age, but I can’t help but feel like it is really part of a dark age. Should the government produce such negative media? Where is the line between appropriate and obscene? Fair and unfair?
For a good portion of yesterday, the other blogs hosted here were offline. I contacted Dreamhost about it, and within a few hours the blogs were back online. There was a problem with the Apache 2 server on which the sites reside. This prevented the server from displaying the correct pages.
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