December 2009
Star Trek Synthahol in the Works →
Researchers in the UK are working on an alcohol substitute that will allow you to easily counteract its effects and be instantly sober again.
Activision Supports Independent Retailers →
Publishing monolith Activision regards independent game stores as key pillars in its business model, and is willing to splash some cash to support them.
You have new daily missions in Starfleet... →
You have new daily missions in Starfleet Commander.
A major problem for me: "The Disparity of... →
This is what you think you look like: This is what you actually look like:
Metaplace.com closing :( :( I had high hopes for... →
Today we announced that the consumer-facing Metaplace service, the one you all know as the user-generated worlds website at Metaplace.com, is closing on January 1st. There’s a FAQ…
simple point and click Multiplayer Basketball game... →
even a simple basketball game becomes compelling with multiple realtime players
The Papal figure is copyrighted, no word yet on... →
Seriously? The Vatican has just declared the Pope a legally protected icon. Don’t you dare use it in a cartoon, you vandals, or slap the holy name up on your soap-on-a-rope to gin up extra sales…
Life Doesn't Work Like Facebook, LOL →
Microsoft boosts Virtualization stack with Opalis... →
Toronto-based Opalis Software which provides IT process automation tools for data centers has been acquired by Microsoft. Microsoft will be integrating the acquisition into its System Center…
The Essential iPhone App Collection For The New... →
iPhone apps all all the rage, but which are the best iPhone apps for the New Media Professional? Here is a fairly comprehensive list of great iPhone apps (broken down into categories and then…
Google Maps India evolves driving directions to... →
street names are often unknown, so they just describe what you’ll pass by
Terra Nova: Gender differences in MMOs →
The latest results from the giant EQ2 data research project came out a few days ago, and this time they center on gender. I’ll just point straight to the summary from Terra Nova:
Men are…
Right, tell me that WON'T be exactly how it... →
Lawdy lawdy! Damn these multi-panel comics.
Tomorrow involves trying on a tuxedo (BOO) and cake-tasting (YAY).
Open question: Do you have to shower before tux fitting?
Dragon's Lair had a SECOND?! level?!? →
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Silicon Knights CEO Says Natal Won't Make... →
The CEO of Silicon Knights said that he “doesn’t see how Natal is going to help me tell a better story or create better content.”
Let's Enhance →
montage of zoom in and enhance scenes; I blame Ridley Scott [via]
If Kirby Swallows It, He Will Wear A Black... →
If I didn’t already have a “Straight Edge Means I Party Sober,” sticker on my Macbook, I would buy one of these instantly. There’s also a Yoshi one, and more on the LapTatt Etsy store.
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How MC Frontalot quit smoking with Dungeons &... →
roll a D20 saving throw whenever the GM tries to poison you (i.e. when you feel like smoking) [via]
Wizard101 Sells In-Game Mount for Charity →
Free-to-play MMOG Wizard101 is selling a special in-game mount and donating the proceeds to charity, showing that you don’t have to be an industry juggernaut like WoW to help a worthy cause.
Canvi & Temps: Visualizing the Connections in... →
Canvi and Temps (click both links!) [culturesdelcanvi.com] are two impressive network browsing spaces by the datavis group Bestiario. These historical (with citations since 1927) and…
Eat your heart out, Griswold: Guitar Hero... →
Playing Dragonforce on expert with no mistakes might take some skill, but try making it through this Guitar Hero Christmas light display.
Rich data visualization toolkits →
Theresa Neil published a useful catalog of data visualization/charting toolkits for a number of Web application frameworks on O’Reilly’s InsideRIA:
…
This is happening in your body, every cell, right... →
submitted by witide to pics [link] [48 comments]
Another wrinkle to the USPSTF mammogram guidelines... →
A while back I wrote about rethinking how we screen for breast cancer using mammography. Basically, the USPSTF, an independent panel of physicians and health experts that makes nonbinding…
The Agile Enterprise – Dream or Possibility? →
The most interesting people are not the ones that tap you on the shoulder and say “well done”, but the ones that challenge the whole fundament of your ideas. Following up on my blog post “Divide…
Good Idea: Gamer Petitions Infinity Ward for... →
A petition has been started to get Infinity Ward to add support for color-blind gamers to Modern Warfare 2.
Globalive Wireless gets government support →
Industry Minister Tony Clement has announced today that his government will allow Globalive Wireless Management Corp. to offer cellphone service in Canada.
“We have concluded through…
Watermelon Is Not Supposed to Look Like Marbled... →
Which is why we ended up not eating this particular watermelon after we sliced it open. It also smelled a bit off, which added confirmation to our decision, but, really: Creepy animal…
Bigotry never dies →
Welp, I didn’t manage to get my weekend buffer ready. Now, I get to update during production. Weee!
Also, don’t forget, if you want an SMBC Shirt for Christmas, there are deadlines! Check out…
SWEET IDEA: Build It With Me Connects App... →
Build It With Me is a free site that connects like-minded designers & developers with the same goal: create cool & useful apps.
Getting funding for your app idea is hard and often…
Baring it all — for involvement →
An Air New Zealand employee and her in-flight co-workers get the undivided attention of their passengers in this stripped down safety video.
How often have you boarded a plane and…
Marketing vs. Public Relations vs. Advertising vs.... →
Found at Space Ghetto.
Warren Ellis on the movie adaptation process for... →
I’ve had a bunch of questions on the forthcoming movie version of mine and Cully Hamner’s graphic novel RED, which starts shooting next month (I think). Let me try to field a couple of them.
First…
Norman Rockwell's photographic inspiration →
I never knew his illustrations were drawn from staged photos [via]
Target uses game mechanics to speed checkout times →
cashiers have informal speed contests and sometimes cheat using a “suspend” function [via]
NaNoWriMo just a giant prank →
Hands up, who “won” NaNoWriMo this year? Heehee. Oh, I’m sorry, I just love this joke, so much – and I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t actually get that it was a joke until a couple of years back….
Beatles 3000 →
reminds me of Idiocracy’s Time Masheen (amazingly, not on YouTube)
The Unusable and Superficial World of Beer and... →
I was pretty excited when I came up with the idea of examining and showcasing some of the most famous beer and alcohol-related websites from a number of…
A great summary of @julien's talk on Tuesday.... →
Julien Smith co-wrote (with Chris Brogan) the bestselling book, Trust Agents. It’s subtitle is Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation and Earn Trust. Mr. Smith has run several web…
If you've read Transmetropolitan this will... →
I love whenever a new church appears that includes sex as one of their primary rituals. There was the awesome Madonna of Orgasm church, which rightly put the female climax in it’s place as…
@raphkoster I think this could work →
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I heard about this project like a year ago,... →
The Gardiner Expressway has become Toronto’s great quagmire. The elevated, concrete traffic artery has sliced through the downtown core since 1965, and has been the bane of urban planners,…
PearlTrees: Visually Organize and Share Web... →
Pearltrees [pearltrees.com] is a new online visualization tool that allows users to organize their favorite content found on the Web as a network graph, which then reveals the connections…
Michael Jackson anonymously co-wrote music for... →
a gaming urban legend confirmed; here’s some audio samples
Mind-controlled prosthetic hand →
From Yahoo! News:
An Italian who lost his left forearm in a car crash was successfully linked to a robotic hand, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with…
Tweets About His Beets →
Tweets About His Beets
Source: www.youtube.com
Before you text, give it a ponder. http://www.giveitaponder.com Funny Give It A Ponder James Lipton Beard Commercial - LOCKER ROOM
Too Much Joy's Tim Quirk details a Warner Bros.... →
is the lack of transparent accounting due to malice, stupidity, or both? [via]
I got a call like this once... →
After developing a custom e-commerce site we received an irate phone call from the client on the day of the launch…
“We’ve been hacked!” he shouted down the phone, “How could you let this happen?”
a note to Game Designers... →
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