March 2009

Apple will sooner release a netbook than an iTablet.

March 21, 2009

Why the Apple-faithful pray for an iTablet is anyone’s guess. Perhaps it’s their love for the long-dead Newton, or their strange fetish for a bigger iPhone. But that’s just it: the iPhone is already an iTablet, albeit with an OS X distribution with limitations imposed on it such that it doesn’t appear to be a [...]

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Free Realms like Harry Potter – attracting adults?

March 20, 2009

We raise an eyebrow as commentary on Free Realms continues. Not because Free Realms is a poor idea, or even because there’s no room for this commentary. We raise an eyebrow, rather, because of who the commentary is coming from. Free Realms is WoW for millenials: Free, social, and everyone wins and gets a pet. [...]

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Believability sorely lacking in comic/cartoon-derived movies.

March 18, 2009
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Alan Moore of Watchmen fame made a comment recently that we spotted over at io9. The comment hearkens back to the point we tried to make about the upcoming G.I. Joe movie. Namely, that big-screen translations can’t always be authentic, because what works in a cartoon aimed at children doesn’t seem remotely realistic to adults [...]

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Apple set to release a multi-touch accessory?

March 17, 2009

Rumours abound regarding Apple’s acquisition of 10″ touch-screens, from the popular netbook theory (and our own) to Craig Hockenberry’s supplementary screen theory. Dieter Bohn at the iPhone blog commented on this latter concept, suggesting that a touch-screen-as-trackpad would be a great mouse replacement. I wanted a capactive [sic] screen sitting to the right of my [...]

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mendax.org -> wyldkard.com.

March 13, 2009
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When we began mendax.org in 1996, we had reasonably concrete aims for the site, but as with all things, situations change and end-goals shift accordingly. Where mendax.org was launched as the public face of a multi-person operation, we’ve been in a very different place for years, with content now produced almost exclusively by one author. [...]

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You probably don’t need a big home.

March 9, 2009

Granted, America is a place where people tend to buy things they want rather than need, or often, can even afford, but let’s not go down that road. Instead, let’s look at a point Trent recently made over at The Simple Dollar: A few years ago, there was a very widely circulated statistic from the [...]

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