“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling,” – Eames from Inception
How T9 Predictive Text Changed Mobile Phones [Wired: Gadget Lab]
Fight! T-Mobile G2 vs iPhone 4 vs Droid X [Yahoo News via PC World]
Microsoft quietly cuts number of product keys …
I recently saw Buried and though I immediately told everyone to see the film – and will continue to do so – there are a couple things that bothered me after I saw it. The movie has some interesting tricks to keep the viewer engaged, including building different coffins with varied dimensions to get interesting angles for filming and a …
Did you know GMail has its own little app store? Ok, so it’s not really a store. And they aren’t called apps. But there are lots of free little add-ons for Firefox and Chrome that inject handy new features into GMail. I’ve tested two recently that are among the most useful I’ve seen. The first, Boomerang, lets you schedule …
In college I wrote this paper about our society’s growing fascination with torture porn and fake snuff films. I watched the worst of the lot, including the Guinea Pig films, Cannibal Holocaust and August Underground, for research. My professor, who probably thought I was crazy, gave me a B on the paper, commenting that although it was …
Well, will you look at that. You can buy Scrabble for your Kindle. Actually, do whatever you want. I can buy Scrabble for my Kindle. My iPhone has turned into little more than a Scrabble machine, and I expect the amount of books I read on the Kindle will plummet now that the game is available.
The game costs $5, which isn’t too …
In lieu of my regular non-existent contribution to Techland, classic Simpsons writer and lovable polymath Mike Reiss has something he’d like to get off his chest:
One of the frustrations of writing children’s books – besides the fact that no one buys them any more – is that you’re competing with celebrity authors. …
Do you worry about it being too early in the 3D cycle to present Killzone 3 in 3D? Do you worry about the consumer adoption rate for the 3DTVs, the glasses, and stuff like that? And if you do worry about it, how do you address those concerns?
No I don’t. I don’t worry about it because I know we have a great experience in 3D for …
35% ($373,650 and up)
Hmmm, what to buy? What… to… buy? It’s gotta be something big and expensive. Like, almost unreasonably expensive. And it has to be expensive for being an almost regular product with one additional meaningless feature that catapults it into the price stratosphere. A solar-powered circular rotating bed
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Dark Horse Comics has relaunched a handful of the old Gold Key Comics titles in the past few months, including Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom. This new version is written by Jim Shooter, the comics-industry vet who previously revived Solar in the ’90s as part of the Valiant Comics line. Courtesy of Dark Horse, we’ve got an exclusive …
What was the challenge in debuting Killzone 2 on the PS3? Because you must have had to revisit the technology that you used for Killzone, and things had changed, obviously. You have Blu-ray, you have the change in online infrastructure. What were the challenges you guys faced in making Killzone 2 for the PS3? And how did Sony help you …
Although DC Entertainment’s official line is that no-one can talk specifics about the number of employees affected by the decision to move all but the company’s print publishing division to the West Coast – with the LA Times’ figure of 20% layoffs challenged by DC spokespeople – until all DC employees have gone through one-on-one …
“We were all really like, ‘This is kind of random for WWE to be one of the games,'” she stated. “It was out of the blue, but we weren’t scared. We realized that the learning curve was really easy.”
Mata knew she came in last in the isolation challenge because she didn’t even defeat a single opponent. The game was in endurance mode; …
