Posts with category: Etc.
flOw is the PS3′s killer app right now
I’ve played a bit of Wii — namely Trauma Center — in the past few weeks but only the Xbox 360 has been able to keep my attention. That is, until flOw. Based on Jenova Chen’s MFA thesis called Flow in Games, the original flash (which I really enjoyed playing last year) has been adapted [...]
Valentine’s day showdown: Veronica vs Engadget
It’s Valentine’s day, which can mean only one thing — a prize fight between my two loves, Veronica and Engadget. Who will win this 15 round battle? Veronica Engadget Lots of fun Yep! Yep! Gets me new gadgets Not so much. Like, all the time. Takes care of me when I’m ill Definitely. Nope. Good [...]
Overheard in SF: the draft
For whatever reason, the topic of instituting the draft has come up a lot, lately. It’s this unspoken assumption, I suppose, since Bush’s “troop augmentation” strategy as outlined in our last State of the Union. That assumption being, of course, that as we continue wallowing in the totally amoral quagmire that is Iraq (and as [...]
Kim family charity auction
Kind ofa bummer that it wasn’t made live until after everyone gave all their holiday gifts, but that shouldn’t stop anyone from bidding for some really amazing and unique pieces of art, clothing, and knick knacks to help out the Kim family. Bidding starts tomorrow, and is over January 7th, get in the game!
10 minutes left of Jewmas
I almost forgot to mention — I’m definitely liking how Jewmas is shaping up. Not necessarily as my or anyone’s day today, but as a term. I’m hearing people use it, it’s got its own Urban Dictionary entry — just great. Did I mention that I invented “Jewmas” in 2003 (or was it 2002?) when [...]
Christmas online
What a bizarre Christmas today has been. It started last night, as the PS3 charity auction I spent three weeks setting up finally drew to a close. The winner: some guy Dinesh Dave, who at the last second drops in a $25 bid that would wind up cheating our charity out of $1,600; Dinesh refused [...]
Boobs in a box, yo-yo in my kitchen
So PodTech once again came to film at my place — this time to shoot GETV’s Boobs in a Box spoof. There were a few golden moments (see: his face when Molly opens the box), but the real treat came after they were done shooting. Doc, the dude running the shoot with Irina, is apparently [...]
Toys that didn’t work in 2006
If I ever seem grumpy or bitter about gadgets, it’s probably because a lot of what I get doesn’t work, or doesn’t work well. The stuff that doesn’t work well I write about on Engadget, but usually the stuff that just doesn’t work we don’t much mention, which is kind of just how it goes. [...]
Tag — I’m it
And by “it” I don’t mean Person of the Year — I reject that title. I’m absolutely not Person of the Year, even en masse. I probably did a bit more than the average social-web user in 2006, sure, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think the whole “you are Person of the Year” is [...]
Today
Today was James Kim’s wake, an enormously difficult moment for everyone. It was in the air, written all over everybody’s faces. But then we saw Kati, who didn’t just survive this ordeal, but appeared in an embodiment of courage and grace, traversing the room of hundreds of grievers asking them how they were, and offering [...]
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