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Monthly Archives: February 2010
The Boogie Board LCD Writing Tablet
The Boogie Board is a reflexive LCD tablet that can be written on with a stylus — essentially a high-tech replacement for traditional dry erase technology. This retails for $30-$50 (these are in short supply right now), and can be … Continue reading
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Edward Castronova on the Rise of RMTs in MMOs
Edward Castronova has a peculiar post on what he sees as the end of resistance to real-money trades in MMOs. Castronova sites a study finding that people who want to role-play within MMOs are a decidedly small minority, and then … Continue reading
Automattic Answers My Prayers with After The Deadline
Back in 2008 I posted about how much I hated the way Firefox’s spell checking system underlined misspelled words with little red dots that I found almost impossible to spot and asked for someone to write an extension to fix … Continue reading
VideoLAN Movie Creator
The developers behind the awesome VideoLAN VLC Media Player are working on a free video editing project called VideoLAN Movie Creator. VLMC aims to be a simple, user-friendly video editor, as demonstrated by this YouTube demo. Unfortunately, the project’s website … Continue reading
How Much Does Google Earn from Typosquatting?
New Scientist reports on a study by two Harvard researchers suggesting that Google may earn as much as $500 million annually from typosquatting — those ad-filled domains that target people who mistype the domain name of popular websites. According to … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Edelman, Domain Squatting, Google, Tyler Moore, Typosquatting
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Yet Another Green Lantern Ring I Must Own
Man, DC Direct is really dropping Green Lantern rings right and left (probably because they know fanbois like me will be there to buy them). This Honor Guard replica ring is set for June 2010 for $35.
Open Source Theme Hospital Clone
CorsixTH is an open source clone of Bullfrog’s 1997 game Theme Hospital. Playing the clone requires either a copy of the original game or a copy of the demo version of the game. As the Google code page for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bullfrog, Computer Games, CorsixTH, Open Source, Preservation, Theme Hospital
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Museum Replicas’ World of Warcraft Alliance War Flag
Museum Replicas will be releasing this replica of the World of Warcraft Alliance War Flag later this year. This will set you back $40, and yes there will be a Horde version available as well.
DC Direct’s Kingdom Come Superman in 1/6 Scale
In July, DC Direct will be releasing this nice looking 1/6th scale Kingdom Come version of Superman. I’m not a big Superman fan, but that looks hella nice. Moar Alex Ross plz.
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Tagged Action Figures, Alex Ross, DC Direct, Kingdom Come, Superman, Toys
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The Lo-Fi Manifesto
Karl Stolley’s The Lo-Fi Manifesto is an excellent statement of principles for keeping the web accessible, especially in education: “Lo-fi” describes a preferred set of production technologies that digital producers should strive to command, but as an acronym, LOFI outlines … Continue reading
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