Clay Shirky's essay "Nomic World: By the players, for the players" might be brilliant but how would I know. I was with him all the way through where he writes that "there are some societies where not wearing white shoes after Memorial Day has acquired the force of law " ... I thought that was when you were supposed to start wearing white shoes? What am I supposed to do this weekend especially since I don't actually have any white shoes? I got even more confused when he quoted a former student as saying "the reason academics like to talk about play but not about fun is that you can force people to play". Can you force people to play? I don't think so. Isn't this where Kobe may have gone wrong? Can you force people to read Clay's essay? I doubt it ... but some of you might and then might also take a quick look at Blognomic. Yikes, let me know if you saw anything fun there ... as for me ... I'm thinking that for fun I'd rather tru-scale bowl where my average is now up to 74 with a high game of 115. And if you're really interested in reading about players controlling the game I'd suggest getting a copy of "Crack in the Cosmic Egg" or "Biology of Transcendence" by Joseph Chilton Pearce.