Steven Levy has a longish and not terribly-illuminating article about World of Warcraft. The problem is that Levy (like a lot of others) want to make WoW out as the nexus of some new virtual social revolution. Levy actually claims that, What distinguishes Warcraft from previous blockbuster games is its immersive nature and compelling social…
September, 2006
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I’m not sure what is more disturbing — that someone is making a movie version of the classic arcade game “Spy Hunter” or that the lead will be played by The Rock. Presumably the lead will be played by Ice Cube or Vin Diesel in the inevitable sequel.
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In Adobe’s ongoing efforts to continually bloat PDF, the next version will feature webconferencing. Ugh. According to CNET News.Com, The company on Monday detailed its refreshed Acrobat line and pricing. In tandem with the product upgrade, Adobe will launch a hosted service called Acrobat Connect, which will allow individuals to click on a button in…
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Maybe it’s just me, but in the Web age why would Archos ever name a product 404?
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It was bad enough that Gene Roddenberry and his successors chose to neuter the Star Trek universe with monstrosities like Jean Luc Picard (see “Homeward” for all the proof you’ll ever need of Picard’s depravity), but now Paramount is finishing the job of stabbing the original series in the back with a “remastered” version featuring…
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In a press release, hard drive manufacturer Seagate announced that it had broken there record for storing the most bits per square inch on magnetic media and said that 2.5 TB hard drives could be a reality by 2009. According to the press release, At the demonstrated density level, Seagate expects the capacity ranges to…
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Marvel has been collecting the run of its 1970s-ish Tomb of Dracula in relatively cheap softcover volumes. Groovy Age of Horror has the lowdown on how Marvel has been altering the comics as it reprints them. The originals included a number of scenes featuring bare-breasted women, but in the “Essential” reprints, either new artwork has…
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MVP handed me a copy of this excellent post from Creating Passionate Users about the ass-backward way that most performance evaluations tend to focus on cataloging employees’ weaknesses and improving them, rather than cataloging their strengths and focusing on enhancing and exploiting them to benefit the organization. Too many companies (and managers, spouses, etc.) focus…
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There’s an amusing hypocrisy on the part of some critics of the Iraq war since some of them overlap with the “terrorism isn’t really that big of a threat” group. Unfortunately for them, this tends to lead to some very incongruous complaints. Take popular Internet weblog Boing! Boing!. On September 12, 2006, Boing! Boing!’s Mark…
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Like most student newspapers, the one at the university where I’m pursuing my Master’s degree in is pretty lousy, but this editorial to kick off the start of the semester was a new low in pathetic quotient. Ever since I can remember (at least back to the mid-1980s), several times a year a number of…