Friday, February 03, 2006

The joys of Self-Reference

John Robb pointed us yesterday to a NYT story about New York police surveillance of a protest - in which the protesters were New York policement (it was a union thing). I commented that there was a self-referential quality to police on police surveillance, and John asked whether self-reference gained extra points...

Well, in one of my HipBone Games, it does. A self-referential move can be marked as such with this special glyph: