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	<title>Desert of My Real Life &#187; Games</title>
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		<title>Playing With Swine Flu</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/08/18/playing-with-swine-flu/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/08/18/playing-with-swine-flu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone seems to be talking about and planning for the H1N1 virus these days.  My university, for example, sent out a memo to encourage us to plan for extended absences due to the virus as we plan our classes for the fall semester.   Now we can all participate in world-wide planning for the potential pandemic, thanks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Play</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/08/13/summer-play/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/08/13/summer-play/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I&#8217;m chairing a panel at NeMLA in April about using Web 2.0 technologies to play.  Because of this panel, I&#8217;ve spent much of my summer playing and thinking about playing online.  Yes, I recognize that I have a great job!
The game that has captured my online attention this summer is Scrabble [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Board Games &#8216;R Us</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/07/17/board-games-r-us/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/07/17/board-games-r-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently posted a list of board games that she had as a kid (and wished she had never gotten rid of).  She had quite an interesting list.  So I decided to go check out the site that she linked to and discovered a game that I think I&#8217;m going to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mob Wars</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/12/09/mob-wars/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/12/09/mob-wars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently been playing Mob Wars on FB.  I started because Ann and Liz both invited me to be part of their mobs.  I nearly stopped playing after Thanksgiving but Scott begged me not to uninstall the application because he wanted me to stay in the mob.  As a result of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parking Wars</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/09/21/parking-wars/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/09/21/parking-wars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, I was out for drinks with colleagues. Most of us are friends on FaceBook as well as in real life. A new colleague, Marylena, mentioned that one of her favorite things to do on FaceBook is play Parking Wars.  Her sheepish description of the game was not particularly intriguing but because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Rights Management</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/09/13/digital-rights-management/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/09/13/digital-rights-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the late 1980&#8217;s, I worked as a volunteer on a running race. Because I had a background in computer science, one of my tasks was to set up a database of all the race entrants and then to enter their finishing positions after the race so that we could publish the results in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honorarium</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/19/honorarium/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/19/honorarium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More proof of Ian Bogost&#8217;s brilliance comes in the form of an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education.  It describes his new game Honorarium.
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		<title>We&#8217;re Not Telling Stories</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/05/were-nt-telling-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/05/were-nt-telling-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FaceBook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the aspects of game analysis that my students struggle with has to do with the dramatic elements of a game.  According to the text that I use in my Creating Games class (Game Design Workshop by Tracy Fullerton, Chris Swain and Steven Hoffman), dramatic elements are those elements of the game that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kinds of Fun</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/02/kinds-of-fun/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/02/kinds-of-fun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sit10 commented on my last entry that a friend had once told her that there is a difference between what men and women find funny. Men laugh because they think, &#8220;That&#8217;s so ridiculous.&#8221; Women laugh because they think, &#8220;That&#8217;s so true.&#8221; She then asked what I thought of that and how it might be related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophy of Jokes</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/07/24/philosophy-of-jokes/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/07/24/philosophy-of-jokes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Word of Mouth today on NHPR, I heard an interview with Jim Holt, the author of Stop Me if You&#8217;ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes.  His book is short, only 160 pages, for a history of jokes.  The fact that it contains history and philosophy makes me even more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game or Sport?</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/07/14/game-or-sport/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/07/14/game-or-sport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While we were in Barcelona, I picked up the European (Summer Journey Double Issue) edition of Time magazine because it&#8217;s about the games that people play around the world.  A number of the articles are fascinating, describing activities that I had never heard of.
For example, one article describes parkour like this: &#8220;It&#8217;s not quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Mario Online Rx</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/06/15/dr-mario-online-rx/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/06/15/dr-mario-online-rx/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wii]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My latest addiction on the Wii is Dr. Mario Online Rx.  It&#8217;s a puzzle game (very similar to Tetris) that came out as WiiWare on May 26, 2008.  WiiWare games are developed specifically for the Wii and can only be purchased and downloaded from the Wii Shop Channel.  The coolest thing about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wii Fit</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/06/11/wii-fit/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/06/11/wii-fit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wii]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We recently bought Wii Fit and have been spending a fair amount of time exploring all it has to offer.  There are many things that the game does well and a few things that could be improved (without much effort, it seems to me, which makes me really wonder why these things were not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wii Weaknesses</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/06/08/wii-weaknesses/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/06/08/wii-weaknesses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent positive experience I had with the Wii exposes a couple of weaknesses in Wii Tennis.
Because they enjoyed playing with our Wii so much, Ann and Greg have purchased their very own Wii.  We went over to their house with our Wii remotes to play.  It was amazingly fun playing Wii Tennis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back on the Wii Remote</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/05/31/back-on-the-wii-remote/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/05/31/back-on-the-wii-remote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 23:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally played with the Wii again today after staying away from it since my unfortunate encounter with a post (which you can read about here).  My hand still isn&#8217;t back to normal&#8211;it was a deep bruise!  I was a little nervous about playing but I ended up playing for about an hour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Wii Woe</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/05/13/wii-injury/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/05/13/wii-injury/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suffered my first (and, I hope, only) Wii injury last night playing tennis by myself against the computer.  Because I was only going to play a match or two and because I am incredibly lazy, I didn&#8217;t move the coffee table out of the way before I started to play.  You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>King of Kong</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/04/30/king-of-kong/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/04/30/king-of-kong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, Ann, Greg, Evelyn and I went to the Red River Theater in Concord and saw King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.  I was prepared to see a movie that did for competitive video gaming what Spellbound did for spelling bees, what Scrabylon did for competitive Scrabble and what Wordplay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Games for Little Ones</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/04/27/games-for-little-ones/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/04/27/games-for-little-ones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, Evelyn and I were in BJ&#8217;s in Tilton buying large quantities of gum and soap when I spotted a display of games for the Wii.  I&#8217;ve been wanting to check to see if there&#8217;s a boxing game with more realistic physics than the game that comes with Wii Sports so I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professional vs. Personal</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/04/16/professional-vs-personal/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/04/16/professional-vs-personal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ann recently said to me that she was surprised to find that I had put pictures of my niece and nephew on my PSU web page.  She had expected my web site to present the professional side of me and not the personal side.  Her comment started me thinking about how to separate [...]]]></description>
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