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22Jul/100

Cow Clicker

Ian Bogost has created Cow Clicker, a Facebook game  in which you get a cow, and can click on it.  Six hours later, you can click on it again.

The article is an insightful essay on the cyclical and insipid phenomenon of today's "social gaming".

I post this as a follow-up to earlier linkage of a couple weeks ago, an essay exploring why people play FarmVille. (via Marco)

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