Amazon has begun slowly rolling out Kindle applications. The tested the waters by releasing two free apps a few weeks ago, Every Word and Shuffled Row, and today Scrabble has gone on sale for $4.99. As a life-long cheap-ass, I have to say that $4.99 is highway robbery, particularly when the game lacks any online…
Excellent news
Bill and Ted 3 is in the works.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
This trailer is seven minutes long. It’s in Japanese with english subtitles. It doesn’t show any actual gameplay. …but you should watch it anyway. This is the breathtaking rebirth of Castlevania that gamers have been waiting for; more than twenty years since the original debuted on the NES. It’s looking spectacular and hits Xbox 360…
Meet the Double Rainbow man
Microsoft found him and paid him to do a commercial: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jXz7NrfzsI Meet the man: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEjX0qUj6VQ
FreeeBooks
Project Gutenberg is an ancient project that didn’t really get popular until eReaders took off. PG has compiled and hosts over 33,000 free eBooks…some were released free by their authors, but most have simply entered the public domain once their copyright has expired. Frugal Kindle users looking for content providers that didn’t start in A…
Working from Home
Working from home is both awesome and horrible. I try not to do it ever. Here’s why. This comic has helped me to discover the magic that is TheOatmeal.com.
He was with Coco
For a long time now I’ve thought it might be fun to write for TV and that I might even be good at it. Todd Levin wrote for Conan O’Brien’s short tenure at The Tonight Show. This is his story.
Antoine Dodson
If you’ve been living under a rock, you may have let the Antoine Dodson phenomenon pass you by. Here’s the original video that made him a star: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzNhaLUT520 The auto-tuned remix (which is #31 and climbing fast on the iTunes charts) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw Antoine now has a blog, a Twitter account, and a YouTube channel. Antoine…
DCA newsreel
The DCA of 2001 is still mostly intact, even nine years later. Things are changing though. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY_maiLj07k
On cutting the cord…
As I mentioned earlier, we had another baby last month. Clare was born on June 23rd and my month-long paternity leave began that day. During that month I decided to stop using the Internet. The extent of my Internet use was basically Facebook on my iPhone to keep people in the loop with photos of…