As a member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), I like to keep up with their publication IEEE Spectrum. They've been increasing their online presence over the last year or so and have been incorporating more interactive features on their site, like blogs.

I'm a big fan of the print magazine because they provide great stories on interesting technical topics. Now I'm an even bigger fan of the online publication. Why? They have a blog called "The Sandbox" dedicated to "the latest in gaming". And it's not just about the latest whiz-bang creation. They actually take a big picture approach.

One one recent post they bring up a sort of hypocrasy in mental health. There's discussion in the mential health professions of considering video gaming as an addiction, you know, like alcholism. But is gaming anti-social like alchoholism, or more anti-social like avid book reading?