Archive for May, 2010

Thanks to Netflix Watch Instantly, my holiday weekend was a blur of 1980′s nostalgia (with a brief side-trip to 1992). I’d recommend all of these, with the possible exception of Chevy Chase’s ‘Modern Problems’ – go watch Vacation or Fletch instead. WarGames 1983 – After cracking the security of an Air Force supercomputer, young hacker David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) moves his piece in a seemingly innocent video game and accidentally tells the computer to start preparing a preemptive nuclear strike. Housesitter 1992 – After building his dream [...]

According to a study by RescueTime, the playable Pac-Man logo on Google Friday cost the economy a total of 4,819,352 man-hours and a staggering $120,483,800 in lost productivity. Those numbers sound as meaningless as most such statistics, but the logo was definitely a great marketing idea on Google’s part. Here’s a non-googlized version of the classic game for even more wasted time: Free Online Flash Games

Shiny… Details at Wired.

The Pandigital Novel ebook reader is set to debut soon for $200. The device will support a number of formats, and will integrate the Barnes & Noble eBookstore (with over a million titles available to buy). The Novel will run the Android os. It will include a 7 inch 600×800 touchscreen, built in wi-fi, web browser, video and music players, and an SD card expansion slot. The screen resolution is lower than the Apple iPad, and there’s no word yet on performance. However, for $200 it would have to have some pretty major flaws to keep me from buying one. No word yet on when [...]