Top WyldKard posts from Mar, 2009.

by WyldKard on April 1, 2009

Haven’t been regularly reading mendax.org? In case you missed them, here’s a quick digest of the top posts from last month:
  • Apple set to release a multi-touch accessory?
    Posted on Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 in Ideas – Comments: (0)
    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 keyboard instead of a mouse. I could just slide my hand around in any shape that was comfortable and tap fingers, use it as a drawing pad, and then pick it up and go walking around with it to display stuff.
  • Apple will sooner release a netbook than an iTablet.
    Posted on Saturday, March 21st, 2009 in Ideas – Comments: (0)
    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 small computer, but rather, a concise, embedded system.
  • Believability sorely lacking in comic/cartoon-derived movies.
    Posted on Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 in Ideas – Comments: (0)
    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 watching an action blockbuster.There is something about the quality of comics that makes things possible that you couldn’t do in any other medium.
  • Free Realms like Harry Potter – attracting adults?
    Posted on Friday, March 20th, 2009 in Ideas – Comments: (0)
    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. Laaaaaaammmmme.As we raise our eyebrow, we feel the need to rattle the commentators, and as we shake them blind, we shout, “Silly bloggers, Free Realms is for kids!
  • mendax.org -> wyldkard.com.
    Posted on Friday, March 13th, 2009 in Ideas – Comments: (2)
    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. This is especially true with today’s ease at placing online a personal vanity blog, making the undertaking of an e-zine, as in mendax.
  • Runemaster to be the next WoW hero class?
    Posted on Monday, March 2nd, 2009 in Ideas – Comments: (0)
    We pretty much agree with Wolfshead’s suggestion that the next World of Warcraft (WoW) hero class will likely be a melee-oriented healer ala a monk, or, as Wolfshead proposed, the Runemaster: I expect Blizzard to slightly morph the monk into one of their own creations and use one of the existing classes from their Warcraft RPG or RTS games. The Runemaster is the natural candidate as he incorporates magical runes which should give the archetypal placid monk a injection of pizazz.
  • Why limit emoji?
    Posted on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 in Ideas – Comments: (0)
    We’re jailbreakers, so news that Apple is pulling emoji-enabling applications from the iPhone AppStore doesn’t really affect us (emoji can be enabled by a download available on Cydia). That said, it wasn’t until very recently that we enabled emoji on our first-generation iPhone, and truth be told, we’re sort of indifferent on the matter.At the very least, emoji is a fun novelty, allowing us to add cute graphics to our SMS and Twitter messages.
  • You probably don’t need a big home.
    Posted on Monday, March 9th, 2009 in Ideas – Comments: (0)
    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 National Association of Home Builders about the increase in home sizes over the last sixty years.
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