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Fri, 26 Feb 2010

by Max Barry

For some time now, the World Assembly has housed both the General Assembly and the Security Council. This created some practical problems, such as delegates elbowing each other in the corridors, deliberately tripping each other, and taping messages to the back of each other's jackets reading: "MY COUNCIL IS TEH SUCK!!1!" And we shall not speak of the pantsing incident.

Clearly such conditions made it difficult to concentrate on ensuring global harmony. The World Assembly therefore commenced construction of two separate edifices, so that delegates of each Council could conduct their noble work unhindered by the pointless bickering of the other. It is with great pleasure that the WA now announces these works are complete, and thanks you for your attention to the mandatory invoice that will shortly arrive at your respective parliaments, palaces, senates, and subterranean bunkers.

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Sun, 07 Feb 2010

We had some downtime

by Max Barry

Apparently a moose chewed through some Bell Canada fiber optic cables and severed connection to our data center. That moose is now being tried for domestic terrorism.

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Tue, 02 Feb 2010

Mobile NationStates

by Max Barry

When we started, there were no mobile devices. The only way to play NationStates was to dial in with your rotary phone and hold the speaker near your computer's CPU. To send telegrams, you had to go down to your local post office and physically wire a telegram. The daily update took two weeks.

But now mobile devices are everywhere! So here's a way to view NationStates that's not quite so mobile-hostile:

http://m.nationstates.net

This is just something I whipped up, not particularly slick. But it's better than trying to pinch-scroll your way around the main site. If it seems to work OK, we'll auto-redirect visits here from iPhones and Androids. Users on rotary-dial phones will be unaffected.

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