links for 2008-02-27

“The U.S. Intelligence community is looking into World of Warcraft and other MMOs, aiming to create software that will pick out extremists and terrorists in online worlds.” Someone’s watched too many episodes of the Border.

EA SVP Luc Barthelet explained that users could now join “a world that is free-to-play, and based on a re-engineered The Sims Online architecture.”

“A John Hopkins study released today in the Journal of Pediatrics takes aim at predominance of fast food and high sugar beverage ads shown on Spanish language television.” Jedimom sees truth through the bubbling beef tallow.