Danc over at LostGarden has written an interesting article on how competitive games reward or punish different groups of players.

Lately I've been digging into research on testosterone. Over the past decade, scientists have been placing players in competitive situations and then measuring how their testosterone fluctuations predict future behavior. What you find from looking at the studies is that both winners and losers will leave your game if they are placed in a set of predictable situations involving dominance, luck, and friendship.

There are four points that have experimental support:

• How playing with friends affects the testosterone in winning and losing players
• How playing with strangers affects the testosterone in winning in losing players
• How perception of the role of luck or skill in the outcome affects the testosterone of players.
• How players differ by pro-social or pro-dominance inclination.

-http://lostgarden.com/2009/11/testosterone-and-competitive-play.html

Hi all!

My sister asked me to help her set up a simple website for her photography business. Her needs seemed simple enough to me that I thought I could do it with a WordPress site. However, there are a few specific needs she has that I'm having a hard time finding plugins for.

Basically what I need is some sort of Photo Album plugin that allows for multiple albums and the option to password protect certain albums. The reason for this is that she wants to be able to have her customers view proofs of the photos and she wants to password protect photos, especially those of children.

Also acceptable would be a (cheap or free) webservice (Flickr?) that already does something like this and then a WordPress plugin that integrates that webservice into WordPress.

Any tips and help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

I just installed DcUpdater on Windows 7 and in the options where I set the directories of where to look for update files it says "Drag and Drop enabled"

But I can't drag and drop from Windows Explorer. The mouse icon turns into a circle with a slash through it.