4 December, 2012 2:43PM AEDT  Minecraft: time wasting addiction
or enlightening engineering challenge?  It's "mine" and "craft",
Minecraft, so you spend a lot of your time, indeed, mining and
crafting, I'm told, as I try to fathom what it is that
preoccupies my child and his friends for so many long hours on
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household, this is especially serious stuff. How on earth do we
deal with this pastime that's landed in our midst?  Simple,
productive and co-operative, a lot like Lego but without the
fine motor skills development, say enthusiasts of Minecraft.
"It's making stuff, Mum," cries my 12 year old as, yet again, I
find myself imploring him to wind it up now because dinner's on
the table and I won't ask again (is that the sound of my own
Mother I hear?).  "Yeah, in a minute, Mum. I just have to finish
something first," is the reply. And half an hour later, dinner
coldly solidified on the plate,