Pull the Ayatollah's Beard for 500 Points

Then pull his leg in negotiations over nuclear centrifuges for 1,000 points. Just kidding.

Is this the "future of news" that has been sought for the way Col. Percy Fawcett tried to catch a peek of the city of "Z" in the Amazon? The gaming community on the Internet shares some similarities with current events blogs: inside information sharing and insult culture in the comments section, predictions about what's coming next, and digitized camaraderie.

Maybe we are reaching the point where everything can be interactive, even stories about health care or defense contracts. Perhaps the goal is to make a "Guitar Hero" for policy and political questions. But as it's been pointed out before, one negative social consequence of things like "Guitar Hero" is the creation of aversion to difficulty.