Archive for September 2008
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The ION drum’s weak link.
We bought Rock Band 2 a week after it was released, and after getting our groove on, we hopped online and ordered the ION Premium Drums, having sold out Rock Band drums months earlier. We held off on a pre-order because of the price, but who can resist the allure of a more customizable [...]
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Apple netbook not as ludicrous as some think.
At Apple Gazette, Michael made a post about why Apple wouldn’t release a netbook, pointing out how the only non-netbooks on Amazon’s list of top 20 selling computers are Macbooks. That’s a nice observation, but then Michael postulates that because of this, Apple would be in danger of cannibalizing its own sales should it [...]
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Unsurprising: Blogger population slows.
Jacqui Cheng posted about the overall blogosphere population slowing its growth, while profit-for-blogging has gone up. We find both those facts rather unsurprising, and pretty sensical given how young mainstream blogging is. And “mainstream” is the key word here, because while blogs like mendax.org have been around for over a decade, the barrier-of-entry for [...]
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BuzzCap: Apocalypto.
Warning: spoilers below.
Apocalypto is the touching tale of an Indian a Mexican a Native American who changes colour. He comes from a small village that calls pigs “tapirs”, and hunts them with intricate booby traps that would make Indiana Jones jealous. The chameleone-sque Native American, named Jaguar Paw, is a practical joker, much like all [...]
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Fallout bottle opener: free.
When we ranted about “special” editions of video games last month, we mentioned the Nuka Cola bottle opener that gamers can pick up by pre-ordering Fallout 3 at Best Buy. Our annoyance over this pre-order bonus is that it’s a Best Buy exclusive, which may be good for Best Buy, but positively annoying for [...]
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