Truman Show Delusion (2)
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Originally posted in ct2 This caught my eye: In a NYT piece on the rise of patients pleading that they are stuck inside a very sophisticated reality-TV show -- no, really -- and they want to get out, just like Jim Carrey did in the Truman Show. Another patient traveled to New York Cit and showed up at a federal building in downtown Manhattan seeking asylum so he could get off his reality show, Dr. ...
Solar Empire moves 500,000 units, shows PC gaming done right (5)
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iRinger Turns Music and Video Files into iPhone Ringtones [Featured Windows Download] (16)
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Windows only: Desktop app iRinger converts any video or music file into an iPhone ringtone, including YouTube videos. You already saw how to make a ringtone using only iTunes, but iRinger brings audio effects (like fade in and out, flanger, and delay) and video support to its single, simple interface. You can download any YouTube clip, for example, and import it into iRinger to create a tone. iRinger does nag you with a pop-up sponsor ...
Republican Doublethink (2)
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The last night of the Republican Convention was probably the most vivid exercise of George Orwell’s theory of Doublethink, in the modern political era. As Orwell wrote, If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality. For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with the power to learn from past mistakes. As the hall monitors from The War ...
This is war: insider describes how devs punish game journos (14)
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It's not rare to hear talk about the pressure developers put on game writers for favorable coverage. What is unusual is hearing someone from the other side describe how he or she can break game writers... and why they think it's perfectly ok to do so. Read More...
Hellboy asks: "Will the TV camera add ten pounds to my Right Hand of Doom?" (1)
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Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Reality-FreeGuillermo del Toro is a busy guy. Aside from helming the much anticipated The Hobbit prequel films to the blockbuster Lord of the Rings trilogy, he's got so many films on his schedule that he's practically booked through 2017. But what does that have to do with television, you say? Well, Variety wrote this big old long article about the esteemed del Toro, and one of the last topics ...
Behind the prototyping of 'Spore' (1)
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Many of the components of Will Wright's highly anticipated evolution game started out as small concept projects that are now available to the public.
Macropayments: Why I don't take tips for my books - Boing Boing (9)
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My latest Locus Magazine column is live: "Macropayments" explains why I don't have a tipjar: Two columns back, in "Think Like a Dandelion," I talked about the reproductive strategies employed in species where reproduction is cheap, like dandelions. Unlike humans, dandelions don’t worry about the disposition of each of their children — they only want to be sure that every opportunity for success is fulfilled, that every crack in every sidewalk has a dandelion growing ...
What you can--and can't--find about Palin on the Internet (1)
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John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate has inspired a wealth of creativity on the Internet.
SHIFT: And the winner of the television convention is… the Democrats (4)
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As I watched Laura Bush, the first lady of our nation, introduce President Bush's remarks to the Republican Convention via satellite on Tuesday night, all I could think was, "Man, the Republicans are really into blurry flags this year." You see, behind Mrs. Bush was a huge massive gargantuan screen, on which was an image of a distractingly flapping U.S. flag. The problem was it was so big that the only things you could see ...
Palin speech nearly equals Obama's -- in ratings (1)
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Filed under: News, Ratings, Reality-FreeThe Republicans have been crying foul about how the media has been unfairly going after vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Right or wrong, all that media attention, plus the curiosity about who this little known Alaska governor is, fueled last night's broadcast of her acceptance speech. The results were predictable. The Palin speech was a Nielsen ratings hit, drawing 37.2 million viewers. That's nearly as many viewers as Democratic presidential candidate ...
Doron shared as favorite The Sony Reader Experiment at Penn State University (2)
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Sony isn't thinking big enough on this opportunity for their Reader product at Penn State University. As this article notes, Sony has donated 100 of their Readers to the university's libraries in the hopes of learning more about how it can be used in a college setting.I'm always puzzled when I read about how e-book readers are being tested in libraries. It just seems like such a bad fit. If my local library started loaning ...
Douglas Rushkoff on the GOP's Message of Hate (11)
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I felt a bit nauseous watching the Republican convention last night. I’m very much a give-the-benefit-of-the-doubt kind of guy, so I try to listen to the arguments people make even when they’re made in over-the-top or patronizing ways. Sometimes it’s good to distinguish between the rhetorical devices and the underlying substance. Even people who use manipulative language sometimes have an important point beneath their persuasion techniques (ads against smoking, for example). I usually don’t feel ...
First look at 'Spore': Why Electronic Arts is smiling today (1)
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North American gamers won't be able to get their hands on the product until Sunday, but the early reviews suggest that hype notwithstanding, EA has a big hit on its hands.
M.O.X. and the Imp Are Here! (1)
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To celebrate the upcoming release of Guild Wars Trilogy and a new 2008 version of Guild Wars Game of the Year Edition, we're adding two new allied NPCs: M.O.X. the golem hero and the Fire Imp combat ally. To learn more about these characters and how to obtain them, check out this page.
Selfish Driving Causes Everyone to pay the Price of Anarchy (10)
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Next time you're stuck in traffic, it may be because you're paying the Price of Anarchy. Researchers discover that one way to avoid paying that price is to give drivers fewer options by closing some roads during heaviest travel conditions.Read More...
Video footage of Sarah Palin's church (27)
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Wasilla Assembly of God Clip Jason Pettus says, This is reportedly video footage from the Pentecostal church Sarah Palin belongs to, clearly showing dozens of members of the congregation speaking in tongues and wandering zombie-like through the aisles, also occasionally thrashing on the floor in front of the pulpit. I've seen barely anyone online mention this video so far, or even Palin's connection in general to this church (including a pastor who preaches that God ...
Survey: DVRs more important than dishwashers, iPods (12)
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For some of us, the DVR has become a household staple that we can't live without. New survey results seem to confirm this, with users ranking it higher than most other household appliances and gadgets. The DVR is even credited with saving people's relationships. Read More...
Ginormous robot spider invades Liverpool, England (24)
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Filed under: Robots Nope, we aren't sensationalizing anything -- that creature you see above really has made the streets of Liverpool its home. According to an in-the-know tipster, it's reportedly going to be stalking citizens and making all sorts of ruckus, possibly the kind involving pyrotechnics. So what's with England and these totally random stunts? First a full-sized UFO crashes in Potters Fields Park, now a gigantic spider shows up as part of La Machine. ...
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fiona said:
heh. this is kind of awesome.
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Mathew said:
that's one cool looking robot spider!
Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Off (5)
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knarfling writes "CNN is reporting that a chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic. Just last month 21 square miles of ice broke free from the Markham Ice Shelf. Scientists are saying that Ellesmere Island has now lost more than 10 times the ice that was predicted earlier this summer. How long before the fabled Northwest Passage is a reality?"Read more of this ...
