links for 2007-12-08

API using a very sim­ple prin­ci­ple that can be used to gen­er­ate all kinds of charts.

“I still hope that “core” and “hard­core” devel­op­ers will not see casu­al cloning as an easy way out. My belief is still that a good orig­i­nal game will out­sell any clone, and cre­at­ing an orig­i­nal title has side ben­e­fits, like cur­ing can­cer.” Ha!

“As you may know, I’m suing a cig­a­rette com­pa­ny because their prod­uct hasn’t killed me yet.” Excerpts from a won­der­ful inter­view with Von­negut (the last in fact).