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Immersion

Immersion is a project by a New York Times photographer showing how focused kids can be while playing video games. (Watch the video here) Basically he has a video camera mounted behind/in the screen that the kids are playing the games on so you’re staring right at them staring at you playing the [...]


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Coming Up On Lost

Unfortunately not until 2009.


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Letterman vs. McCain - Game, Set, Match to Letterman

Hopefully they’ve learned their lesson - don’t ditch Dave.
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PC vs Mac: One Gets It, The Other Doesn’t

Watch this:

And then watch some/one of these:

And then read this if you’re still not convinced that Microsoft doesn’t get it. John (Chairman) Gruber, writer of Daring Fireball.net, always manages to write what I think I’m thinking but I have no idea how to actually write it… or actually think it.


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Must. Not. Buy.

These Simpsons characters are small and cute. And you shouldn’t order one either, let alone the whole case of 24 for $180.


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Meh

I don’t think the ‘Get a Mac’ ads are particularly brilliant either, but this definitely doesn’t help sell a Windows OS to me. I guess they might be building to something with this.


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30 Minutes of 80s Cartoon Openings

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I found this from a link to 30 minutes of 90s Cartoon Openings but that’s a little too young for me - this 80s version is more my speed and also more in line with the folks that read my blog I’d guess.


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Cognitive Surplus

Via Boingboing.net. I’m just going to basically repost it as my brain isn’t quite functioning yet this morning:
Clay Shirky’s posted a transcript of a recent talk he gave on “cognitive surplus” — the idea that automation gave us an enormous amount of free time to think and cogitate, and that sitcoms and other light [...]


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Lost In One Word

Personally I still love this show and don’t think it’s jumped the shark - but I know for a lot of people this is all they come away from the show with.
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Battlestar Galatica - Final Season

Here’s something to help you catch up if you haven’t been playing along with the first 3 seasons of one of the better shows, sci-fi or otherwise, on TV:

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Via binarybonsai.com


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