2013-12-08 links

  • ESR ready to ship Shipper, automating everything
  • Long, enlightening article about how games have been marketed through the years, and towards which demographics. "Given enough money, I could make guys buy tampons," says Roeser. "I mean, I could figure out something to do with them. It all comes down to how somebody like me, and there's frighteningly thousands of me across the country and the world, creates a campaign that specifically targets an audience." Roeser believes that if the makers of Call of Duty came to him and said they wanted to pursue the female market, it could be done. It would just be a matter of making the message appealing to women and reaching them through the right channels.
  • Bruce Schneier, The Problem With EULAs. I guess this also applies to closed-source software