A new study published in the Journal of Cognitive Sciences suggests that game playing leads to a healthier brain. The effects are greater attention and better weeding out of extraneous information - brain processes that degrade over time. This all reminds me of the recent studies of Buddhist monks suggesting that gaming is a kind of meditation. Om mani padme frag.

Today is the 54th birthday of the first digital computer UNIVAC. We should all donate 1000 operations per second to playing 'Happy Birthday'.