I just posted a new article on the Sleepover blog: Metagames and Containers. Check it out, let me know what you think! It was fun to write and a pain to code.
Great article and wonderful presentation. I found that as I went through I began to forget that to close the boxes, I guess it’s just not something I’m used to doing which is almost strange considering I use the same technique/metagame for almost every element of my life. Checklists and timers for tasks and work, a variety of measures for travel (Kilometers, Map squares/pages, iPhone screens etc), marking visited destinations, logging TV shows, keeping email/RSS/Twitter unread counts at zero and many more.
But really, this functionality on the web really is the most simple to implement in the most basic HTML, the under-used visited pseudo-class is rarely seen performing it’s proper role these days. I guess it’s unfashionable to have multicolored links or perhaps when you are a master of the most simple tools you begin to look for more complex solutions to satisfy your need to grow.
Or maybe it’s just too much, I think I’m obsessive enough already. My attention span is still just about long enough that I can read a full article without having to count down the remaining paragraphs (for books though, I use Stanza which has a percentage read count). In fact the less I know about what I haven’t seen the better because otherwise I’ll just try to consume it all…
PS. My favorite is trying to finish a game of Worms with as many of my team still sporting 100% heath as possible.
