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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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Annals of Innovation: In the Air: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
via www.newyorker.com by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Shared by Snowmit I wish I was half as smart as Malcolm Gladwell. Then I could write articles half as interesting as this.Who says big ideas are rare?
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Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
via www.wired.com by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Shared by Snowmit I love this articleKing Gillette's 1895 disposable blades made good freebies to help sell other products. Companies use his business model today to create demand for their goods: Give away the cell phone, sell the monthly plan; make the videogame console cheap and sell expensive games. Now, the underlying technologies that power the web are making
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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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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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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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The wealthy gardener
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on April 14, 2008
At a seminar at the local library, someone asked, "how do I make a lot of money blogging?" My guess is that at least week's seminar, the one on growing orchids, no one raised his hand and said, "how do I make a lot of money growing orchids?" Sure, people make money growing orchids. Some people probably get rich growing orchids. Not many though. And my guess is that the people who do make...
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Free Range Kids, blog for raising kids without being freaked out about safety all the time
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on April 12, 2008
Lenore Skenazy, the author of the kick-ass column about letting her kid ride the subway alone, has started a blog called Free Range Kids, with a stirring call to action: Do you ever... ..let your kid ride a bike to the library? Walk alone to school? Take a bus, solo? Or are you thinking about it? If so, you are raising a Free Range Kid! At Free Range, we believe in safe kids. We believe...
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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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