Jessica Alba, riding a police hover drone.
Among tech journalists, BlackBerry is considered to be “old-fashioned, lame, commoditized technology,” as Mike Butcher, the blogger and digital adviser in London puts it. But BBM is private, decentralized, blindingly fast, and—most important—ubiquitous. My colleague Robert Capps has called this phenomenon the Good Enough Revolution (issue 17.09), though I doubt he [continued...]
Bill Wasik, Wired magazine, December 2011, #Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You
Linklog“The soldier to come is both natural and unnatural. I waited to be called up. You stay fit; stay focused, and stay ready. I wore the blacks and grays. I blended in. But the call never came. It never came.” — Fringe, Bad Dreams We see patterns, connections. That’s what human brains are good for. [...]
It doesn’t go unremarked that, 10-years after the introduction of the floppy-less iMac, there are still a few applications using the apparently anachronistic icon of the 3½-inch diskette to represent the concept of saving a file. I have no objections to it, myself. It’s a lovely little hieroglyph that reminds me how awesome computers seemed [...]
According to the Sunday Mirror: Evil mum Karen Matthews has been given a £300 PlayStation in her jail cell as a reward for being a model prisoner. Crikey. I can’t justify getting a PS3 for myself right now, and the state is just handing them out to people the tabloids are calling, without apparent fear [...]
“Did you finish Fahrenheit yet?” “Not yet. Played it last night. Got to the bit where one of the cops has sex in a train carriage with the reanimated corpse of the fugitive they were pursuing.” “Oh, that’s really close to the end.” “Ok, right. I wasn’t sure if it was one of those inevitable [...]
Edge magazine has a big article about the XBOX 360 this month (the one in the gold Zelda box). I felt I had to share this part with you: Allard takes Tony Hawk as a starting point and suggests different ways for non-gamers to get involved. A girl watching her brother play might be affronted by his [...]
Apparently parents and shopkeepers are confused about the fact that games that have been rated “18″ by the BBFC are not to be sold to persons below that age. Clearly it’s the clarity of the labelling (which in the case of BBFC rated games, is the same as that for films) that’s the problem here. The [...]
“Hey Lee, what have you been up to.” “Playing the new Grand Theft Auto, not much else.” “So is San Andreas any good?” “I just beat a guy to death with a 20 inch purple dildo and escaped in a helicopter.” “So… good then?” “Probably in my ‘Top Ten’.” “Oh, what are your others then?” [...]
I just noticed that Datel will soon be launching a new version of the Action Replay MAX cartridge for the PlayStation2. As well as the other game hacking, DVD multi-region naughtiness of the previous version, this one has CD-R support for MP3 and DivX as well as a emulator for Sega Megadrive/Genesis ROMs and an online IM/chatroom/forum feature. The EVO [...]
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