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09 May 2007

Official Google Reader Blog: Feed Your Television

Official post about the Wii version of Google Reader.

08 May 2007

There's Still Time for a Delay

Arriving in stores next week are All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder #5 and Ultimates 2 #13. The last issue of the latter series shipped September 27, and the former hasn’t had a new issue since May 17 of 2006, meaning it’ll come one day short of having been a full year. That both books are coming out on the same day could be a portent of something terrible.

Google Launches Google Reader for the Wii

Google launches Google Reader for the Wii

Has specific commands for the Wii Remote.

New Spinal Tap Short Film

New Spinal Tap short film

They Might Be Giants Goes Exclusive with Launch on iTunes

They Might be Giants goes exclusive with launch on iTunes

“Exclusive” is misleading — it’ll be out on CD a month later, but you can get it from iTunes first.

06 May 2007

The Perils of Coincidence

The perils of coincidence

Critique of Spider-Man 3’s story. For the record I enjoyed the movie, but agree that the story was too weighed down and depended on coincidence too heavily.

05 May 2007

I find myself wanting StarCraft 2 to not be an MMO

Rumors are flying that the next StarCraft will be an MMO. Blizzard’s a talented enough company that I don’t think they’re just make it “WoW in Space,” but I do have my fears. Blizzard tried to do a few online real-time strategy things with the battlegrounds in WoW, but they didn’t fit into the framework of the rest of the game and had to be significantly nerfed/retooled. Perhaps let me in StarCraft play and level up a squad of Protoss instead of just one character, or even raise an entire army that I play online. Maybe have ongoing campaigns that players join into, like what Alterac Valley was going to be originally. It didn’t work in WoW because people don’t want to join into a battle that started days ago and their side is losing, but if you desired the game with this stuff in mind, it could work.

All this makes me want to find a PC to play the Warhammer 40,000 RTS game.

Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops

I’m not surprised. There’s no way the expense of a computer for every student adds its dollar value in education, especially if you consider how many teachers that could have paid instead.