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You Can Buy A Galaxy Nexus In The US Again… For A Little Bit
Beautiful phone, hindered by Apple
You didn’t think the iPhone was the only smartphone hindered by Apple, did you? (Insert laughter here.) The international patent war amongst mobile companies like Apple, Google, Motorola, and Samsung has gotten many products banned in various countries. Last week, Apple convinced US federal courts that Google’s flagship device should be banned. And so they did. But now it’s available, if only for a brief moment.
Miss Master Of Orion? Endless Space Might Cure What Ails Ya
Does this shot get you as excited as I am right now? Yeeeeeessssssss…
Everyone knows I’m the biggest fan of Master of Orion in the entire galaxy (Hell, my official title here at FEZ is “Galactic Emperor”. Yes, it’s on my business cards!) so it pains me that no titles in the past twenty years have really come close to replicating the elegance of its ‘conquer the galaxy’ design.
UPDATE: Read the review here!
Why Do Web Journalists Fail At Facebook?
I don’t mean to pick on Josh specifically, but he’s hardly a role model.
Up until about a year ago, my Twitter feed was married to my Facebook feed. Whenever I tweeted, It would show up on my Facebook wall. On the former, I’d get quick replies from randoms, on the latter, I’d actually have fruitful conversations with friends. It makes sense: if you’re gonna post something, why do it twice? Eventually I fell out of favor with Twitter’s lowering signal-to-noise ratio and uncoupled the two, leaving me to direct specific topics in either direction. So far, the experiment has been fantastic. I post a lot more content exclusively to Facebook and I feel I’m really taking advantage of both feeds for their respective purposes. But as I start to use Facebook more fruitfully, I look at my counterparts across the web and wonder, not really at why they don’t post more exclusively to Facebook, but why they fail to use Facebook to any of its potential.
#WaldoCanyonFire: A Burning City Through The Eyes Of The Internet
The view from inside the dome: the trauma of Waldo Canyon stretches over Colorado Springs.
Wildfires are a common sight in the news during the hot, dry summer, a season that was particularly hot and dry this year in southern Colorado. Our state’s had its fair share of blazes, acreage totals, and containment percentages, but rarely are they as intimate or as destructive as the Waldo Canyon fire. As it began to rocket down the slopes that border FleshEatingZipper’s home town, the social media we use so often morphed into a bizarre experience as local friends maintained a minute to minute watch on the flames while the outside world sailed on without a care.
Microsoft Finally Gets It Right With (Temporarily) Cheap Windows 8 Upgrades
This kid is running to upgrade his Vista desktop right now!
I’m not sure when things went wrong (Windows Vista), but at some point, Microsoft felt like introducing “premium” versions of their flagship operating system that were over-valued and featured negligible exclusive features. Like BitLocker; who used that? Windows XP, their dominant version of the past decade, shipped in two flavors in green and blue boxes and you did well with both. Windows 7 continued this trend under Sinofsky’s reign, but it seems that Microsoft wants to apologize for all that madness with Windows 8.
Linkin Park’s Living Things Review: One Small Step From Meteora, One Giant Stumble From ‘Suns’
Linkin Park may look older, but their music seems to have barely aged.
And it seems ugly, but it can get worse,
‘Cause even the blueprint is a gift and a curse
‘Cause once you have the theory of how the thing works
Everybody wants the next thing to be just like the first– Mike Shinoda on “When They Come For Me”
Facebook Ticker Disappears, People… Miss It?
Maybe it’s just my observation of the techblogosphere, but it seems that people have become very upset that the Facebook Ticker has vanished. Have you noticed? Because it’s one of the biggest additions that people seemed to despise last year.
Gas Guzzlers Review: A Competent Combat Racer, Little More
And Boom goes the Dynamite
I don’t know about you guys, but when I hear ‘car combat’, I think of Mad Max films. As far as gaming goes, any title marketed in the genre is really just Mario Kart with realistic cars and chain guns. I’ve played Interstate ’76 and Full Auto and Twisted Metal, and I know how big the audience is for Mario Kart (huge), and I know how big the audience is for mature car combat titles (small). Gamepires wanted us to know that there’s still room for one more game in which we shoot up our foes with rockets and shells and collect power-ups. Thus, Gas Guzzlers was born.
I Want The Nexus 7 To Destroy The iPad. Will Google Let It?
What a beautiful piece of hardware, will anyone buy it? Photo credit: Anandtech
The iPad owns the tablet space, there’s no contest. It hasn’t quite become the generic term for one, but if you mention the Apple device, people know exactly what kind of computer you’re talking about. The Kindle Fire had a huge promotional wave behind it and a much cheaper price point, but interest fell off just as the holidays did. Now that Google is introducing some genuinely fantastic hardware (by Asus) with their latest and greatest version of Android onboard, we may finally see some diversity in the market before Microsoft lands with their tablets later this year. But will Google’s proprietary approach to distribution hinder the tablet in the long run? Will anyone care about Google’s attempt to fit Android to a tablet effectively with Jelly Bean?
With Sadness, I Ended My Whiskey Media/Giant Bomb Subscription Today
Oh, that Brad Shoemaker. What a character.
It was nearly two years ago that Whiskey Media, hoping to finally become a business, opened up memberships by hosting the Big Live Live Show Live (later, its sequel) and proving to the internet that they could pull off some incredible stuff if people simply voted with their dollars. The idea of paying monthly for a set of web sites seemed pretty gnarly and old school many years after IGN and Gamespot had scaled back their subscriptions, but Whiskey’s fanbase, largely wrapped around flagship site Giant Bomb, was more than happy to give enough of their dollars to justify the experiment. Giant Bomb became my home after most of 1UP.com’s staff was dissolved and the Bombcast is still a regular 3-hour listen every Tuesday evening, so it’s a bitter moment to cancel my Whiskey Media subscription after all that time. But why?
