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Fonz Jumps the Shark on HAPPY DAYS vs Drinking Your Milkshake
via (title unknown) by admin on March 09, 2008
The reason I’m posting this infamous 1977 clip from Happy Days which gives us the expression to ‘jump the shark’, (meaning to pass ones prime and descended into gimmick) is that I realized that I had never actually watched it.But that’s not the only reason. The recent ‘I’ll end up drinking your milkshake’ line from There Will be Blood (which originally came from the 1920s) looks...
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Game Developers Should Ignore Software Pirates
via Slashdot: Games by Soulskill on March 21, 2008
wraith808 points out a story about remarks made by the CEO of software and game development company Stardock about sales in the PC game industry. His suggestion to other developers is simple: ignore the software pirates. From Ars Technica: "'So here is the deal: When you develop for a market, you don't go by the user base. You go by the potential customer base. That's what most...
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Saving the Earth? Good for You — Just Be Sure to Watch the Bottom Line.
via Wired: Top Stories by Gabriel Sherman on March 27, 2008
Toyota relies on sales of gas-guzzling pickups to be the cash cow offseting development costs of the hybrid Prius. Oother companies hoping to reap the benefits of going green face the same Catch-22: Rolling out earth-friendly products attracts environmentally conscious customers, but corporate profits still come largely from doing business the old, dirty way.
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Popular Comics #65
via Daily Comic Cover by (author unknown) on April 07, 2008
Popular Comics #65
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Video Store Clerk Game: A Crowd Wisdom Experiment
via Ironic Sans by David on April 14, 2008
On-line movie recommendation systems (such as those at Amazon, Netflix, etc) are pretty good at guessing what movies you might like based on your movie history. Improvements to these systems are constantly being made, using ever more sophisticated algorithms. But how good are they compared to the wisdom of actual people? That's what my friends Jay and Andy are trying to figure out. And they...
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Pac-Man, Explained [Say No To Drugs]
via Kotaku by Owen Good on May 04, 2008
Let's close things out today with this, an attempt to rationalize Pac-Man into an actual narrative: Bottom line, drugs and outer space are a bad combination.This picture comes from an animation that gets annoying after about like 2 seconds. Turn down your speakers if you have easily startled house pets or children around. Fair warning.Don't Do Drugs in Space! PLEASE! [ytmnd.com]
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Super stylin'
via www.nationalpost.com by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
The baddies are the peacocks of the comic book world
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Archiving TV… the old fashion way
via Long Views by Alexander Rose on May 07, 2008
This is a wonderful find by the “America Found: A Snapshot History” blog. It is someone’s snap shots they took of their TV as one of the Apollo missions took place. I am not sure what it is, but there is something lovely about taking pictures of your television to document an important moment. Pre VCR, pre DVD, pre TiVo but still captures the essence of the broadcast.
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Canadian sex educator Johanson ending TV call-in show
via CBC | Top Stories News by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Canadian sex educator Sue Johanson is ending her six-season run on Sunday night's Talk Sex.
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A 70-year-old's Take on GTA IV [Old Man And The GTA]
via Kotaku by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Shared by Snowmit Oddly touchingMy Dad has been visiting since late last month and his arrival happened to have coincided with the arrival of another important thing in my life (these days): Grand Theft Auto IV. Dad was, at one time in his life, quite a gamer. He introduced me to the glory of Donkey Kong on the TRS-80 (or was it the CoCo), looking as delighted as I was when he first loaded the...
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