Steven Berlin Johnson, the clever fellow who suggested that TV and video games often make kids smarter and we should stop fretting so much over screen time, is now defending the indefensible – mainstream journalism. Here Steven suggests that all … Continue reading
Part of the deal when we bought my son an XBox 360 was that he get the Rockstar Games Table Tennis Video Game, widely reviewed as a masterpiece of realism. I’m a regular competitive Table Tennis player and fan … Continue reading
I finally got to see “An Inconvenient Truth” On the upside I think Al Gore comes off like the fine, sincere, bright fellow he is. A movie like this around election 2000 would have given Florida, and the Presidency, … Continue reading
Michael: Chunklove registry finder Nassar? Cell phone to shopping assistant for pricing ? Ultra mobile PC, pictures of barcodes, etc. ? Podcasts and newsfeeds Jeff Marshall – new system for Bart – Traincheck.com train times to cell phone Dave – … Continue reading
Ken Levy from Windows Live [ I’m really impressed with the MS Live team. They have the kind of enthusiasm and drive normally associated with …. Googlers and some of the good startup and Yahoo folks.] Build interactive multi users … Continue reading
Today CNN’s online video headlines: Pig head thrown into mosque during prayers Teen joyrides on train, slips away on his bike Kitten survives churn through wood chipper True, they did include some info about the Korean Missile launches and Israel’s … Continue reading
Playstation 5 , said leading UK futurist Pearson, will be as powerful as a human brain. He notes the dramatic increase in power as video games evolve, and predicts that by 2050 we'll be able to download our brains into … Continue reading
There was me, priding myself on applying the elusive Monty Hall conditional probability math to "Deal or No Deal" TV show and thinking how clever I was to integrate DVD, touchscreen, and LCD Television for a snazzy new tourism presentation. … Continue reading
Off to see Mission Impossible III this afternoon, but first let's check the economics of the franchise at http://www.boxofficemojo.com The first two have made very close to a billion so far on production and marketing costs of only about 240 … Continue reading
MIX06 Virtual Web has videos of the keynotes and (some/all?) of the presentations here. MS is spending a fortune to have high quality displays. The session rooms each have 2 large presentation screens. There seems to be dozens of MS … Continue reading
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