BTQ: Get it Right

Now available in business card size...

Just a bit late for TLPD...

“We just saw a big ship,” the pirates’ spokesman, Sugule Ali, told The New York Times. “So we stopped it.”

Parallel Nerdom

A new game for the iphone (and phones running google android) will make use of cell phone's GPS to radically change player experience. The game designers have essentially made a parallel universe that maps on to reality (apparently making use of google maps)- where you are in real life coordinates with where your character is in the game. Since the game, Parallel Kingdom, is an rpg, this means that as you walk around your community (in real life) you fight with creatures and other players (in game life), collect items that you need (magic rings in game life and groceries in real life) until you accumulate a healthy reputation as the strongest nerd in your neighborhood (mostly just in real life).

Your morning commute is transformed into a perilous voyage into enemy territory. The necessity to walk your dog becomes a trading mission with your friendly neighbors. Basically, it allows you to convert all your daily tasks into opportunities to express your utter nerdiness. If WoW took some lives (in real life), just imagine what this could do...



If you're really excited about this, then you can get started with a simple game based on similar technology- you don't even need an iphone. Your mission: try to kill all those people with iphones by setting traps in a digital universe...

In Defense of Short Urinals...

I'm a pc...

but I use a mac.

Several digital images that Microsoft Corp. has posted on its Web site to trumpet its new "I'm a PC" advertising campaign were actually created on Macs, according to the files' originating-software stamp.

The problem with the apple ads:

The world identifies far more with John Hodgman than [what is that guy's name?]. I think this new ad from Microsoft does a good job of pointing that out...I like it.

Lutz doesn't believe in human caused global warming but...

he's still the one in charge of GM's electric car...cue Colbert:



Here's what Lutz has to say about the interview:

"I was warned not to try to counter his humor with offerings of my own: “He’ll inevitably win. You should just smile, and play it straight.”

I resolved to obey, but lost it as the “interview” began: if one has any sense of humor at all, it’s just impossible not to have it triggered when engaged by Colbert’s brilliant but outrageous persona. It turns out, unfortunately, that “outrageous” is the main bandwidth of my humor, so I found my responses coming reasonably fast and automatically. Although if you see the interview, you’ll notice some pauses on my part. Those pauses were not because I didn’t know what to say; they were time needed to index through and discard the truly dangerous answers!

Once we got going, I think we “connected,” and the time just flew. But “fun challenge” aside, the key facts on Volt came out: 40-mile electric range, great overall range, advanced lithium-ion battery technology and so on. Those facts are now known to the huge Colbert Nation, which consists primarily of millions of educated, successful young people, including many who are not generally predisposed to consider GM cars."