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Girl Scout Cookies: The Skyrim/iPad/Justin Bieber Of Food
How do I put this? Hmmm. The Girl Scouts’ annual cookie drive is like the arrival of a brand new phone, or game console, or highly-anticipated game. But it’s for normal people, like grandmad. Your heart would have to be as cold as stone to deny the meek Girl Scout’s request to buy some boxes of America’s favorite sugary treats when you exit the grocery store (y’know, after buying everything you already want? Location, location, location). As a former Boy Scout, I’m still not entirely sure what Girl Scouts do other than selling cookies.
Smartphones Bigger Than Personal Computers For The First Time Ever
I’m sure if you told anyone a decade ago that smartphone shipments would eventually exceed those of personal computers, they would’ve give you a ‘yeah, in twenty years’. Well, twenty years from ten years ago is now! Further to the point, I doubt anyone would’ve guessed that these new personal computers would be dominated by Apple and Google, rather than the zeitgeist of that era, Microsoft. Whether you’re an iOS guy or Android gal, we’re all leagues away from Microsoft’s early domination of the smartphone realm with Windows Mobile, which fell off in the late 00s, necessitating the under-performing Windows Phone.
The N5 Show! – Week 5, 2012 – Syndicate Demo, Tax Software, and Ron Paul!
Yeah, I missed last week. There was just too much we’d already covered by that point last week that I didn’t have anything further to contribute. NEVER AGAIN. I seriously had to dance the entire length of the N5 Show to make up for it. Today I cover some cool new stuff (well, when don’t I?) and I won’t spoil it for you, but you’re gonna want to see it because you’ll totally be able to relate. Congrats again to brazenisgod on YouTube for correctly picking last week’s (sigh, again, the week before’s) game, which was Marble Blast Ultra. If you can spot what game is going on in the blurry mess behind me, you need to pick up your feet, run to the nearest e-mail booth (those still exist, right?) and drop me a line as soon as possible. Or you can hit us up on the usual venues, or even the Facebook comments below. If you’re afraid of showing your face in public, you can hit up the YouTube link, too. I don’t care, I want you to win. So I can call you out. And that’s awesome.
Anyway, come watch the show after the break and the rest, as they say, is history.
‘Chronicle’ Review – The Best Found-Footage Movie Since… Ever?
Imagine you had near-limitless mental powers. C’mon now, you’ve dreamt of being able to crush your foes, assemble things, or even fly… all with a mere thought. But what if someone you knew and respected began to use them for nefarious purposes? Such is the dilemma that Steve and Matt face when the latter’s depressed cousin, Andrew, begins to use his new-found powers of telekinesis in terrible ways.
‘Triple Town’ Review For iOS + Android – Why Aren’t You Playing This Right Now?
Yes, I’m a little late to the party. Lots of trendy kids that I follow on Twitter have been talking about this game and how addictive it is, so being naturally starved for even a quasi-strategy game for my phone, I grabbed it as soon as I heard it was available for Android. The game walks a thin line between puzzle and strategy as it’s a Bejeweled derivative at its core, but the stuff Spry Fox built around it? That’s the time-sponging twist.
Electronic Arts’ Syndicate Is Shaping Up Pretty Nicely (Co-op Demo Impressions)
After an incredibly impressive debut, I was pretty psyched for Electronic Arts’ and Starbreeze’s new Syndicate game, a revival of the old cyberpunk-themed Bullfrog franchise that Peter Molyneux once lorded over. But upon downloading the demo, first impressions were not great. The intro movie is choppy and compressed to all hell (probably to keep the demo size within reasonable limits) and upon finding a match to fight in, the demo hard-locked the console. And yes, you had to sign a EA-provided EULA before playing the demo. Thankfully, things got better from there.
Daria Is The Best Show MTV Ever Made
I spent a lot of time watching MTV during the summers of high school. Most of it was garbage (and yeah, they rarely played music videos even in the late 90s), but one show has endeared when the former music network’s other content has dried up and died. I don’t know how I got started, but once I caught Daria playing on some hot, boring summer day, I didn’t stop. When they would play it in day-long marathons, I was in for the ride.
Google Wave Is Dying In My Arms
There was a time before Larry Page took over the reins at Google where everything and anything flew. It just went. If it could be engineered, Google sought it out. One of the most highly visible products was Wave, which was supposed to change the entire world forever. It was like e-mail, but it wasn’t. It was super e-mail. But as I read about it in Google’s extensive ad campaign, including a spread in Time magazine, I realized that I didn’t get the appeal at all. And apparently, neither did anyone else, because Google has been slowly killing it for the past year and a half and soon it will be dead.
EverQuest Going Free To Play; I’m Pretty Excited.
If the above image invokes some distant nostalgia, then we’re on the exact same wavelength. I remember wandering through those large, empty spaces, clubbing bats for hours. Chessboard (above) was the centerpiece of some high-end action in the starter Butcherblock Mountains zone before you wandered off to parts unknown. EverQuest, thirteen years after its original release, at a time that I was still going on monthly Boy Scout campouts, is going free to play. While much of the high-end content, higher rungs on the tech tree, and many zones will be locked away for subscribers, but I don’t think Sony Online Entertainment can deny me another trip through Butcherblock and Freeport. The game had an incredible eighteen expansions over that time, but only Ruins of Kunark was out when I played back in 2000.
Engadget Introduces “StoryStreams” To Tech News, Fails To Capitalize On The Verge’s Shortcomings
Today, Engadget unveiled ‘Follow the Saga’, a metastream of related articles bound for easy reference. If you need to catch up on the current story, you can simply display a Follow the Saga, saving the writer a ton of time and energy establishing back story in every new article. If you want to read up on SOPA from the very first mention to the latest protests and blackouts, you can peruse those works chronologically with a Follow the Saga or StoryStream. But the problem isn’t attribution – who really made the tech first, Engadget or The Verge? – because everyone’s dipping their toe into this pool. At the end of the day, Engadget’s crime is in the implementation. Also, the name is awful.
