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After the landgrab of registering a name with about.me, I figured I might as well do that also with the .me-domain du jour: threewords.me. While about.me is basically a catch-all profile-linking page dressed up in a domain name that makes sense, threewords.me is different in that you don’t give anything away about yourself. Instead you [...]
Interesting report at Bloomberg Businessweek. Toddlers who play with different-shaped objects pick up new words faster than those playing with similar shaped objects. In a way this sounds like another ‘duh’ study, as being able to add meaningful differentiators to stuff you learn about helps you remember better; they’re like handles. But then I remembered [...]
There’s always a certain excitement around these new-fangled weapons/toys that irks me a bit. Yes, without a shadow of a doubt the technology behind it is awesome. That we can actually use it, is even more awesome. That an electromagnetic railgun is now becoming a practical weapon… Not so much awesome. So let’s enjoy it [...]
It’s odd. I expected to at least be playing something. Casual games and such. The type of games everybody is talking about. But instead I found myself deleting the last games from my HTC Desire last week after noticing I hadn’t touched them for weeks. Suddenly, I had an Android device without games. Of course [...]
Thanks to my sister a part of my not-so-repressed memory has been unearthed again. This commercial from the early ’90s was part of a series promoting ‘awkward’ candy in the Netherlands: gummi boobs, licorice gull faeces and foam dirty diapers among others. Oddly enough, viewing this now in the ’00s makes me expect an immediate [...]
Everybody’s favourite overpriced notebook has a special edition ready for gamers. Or retro-gamers at the very least. The Pac-Man Collection is made to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Namco’s popular pill-popper. Lots of icons, sprites and even some “traditional video game lines” like “Game Over” and “Insert Coin” garnish the notebook exteriors. While that’s great [...]