World of Warcraft turns 5-years-old today. Back on November 23, 2004, a year before the current generation of video game systems even began (with the launch of the Xbox 360), Blizzard released the massively multi-player online game at a time when massively multi-player online games were still largely the haunt of hardcore gamers, people...
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Seems that, according to a picture posted on MADATOMS, internet cults are US-centric by nature. Mac Zealots, Whedonites, Wikipedia Editors, and Second Life Residents all patronize services and products invented in the US. Another sign that America is still king of geekiness—or at least enjoy the most attention from geeky media.
My personal favorite? The...
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A slide from a Bryant &...
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Now, I can't say I feel one way or the other about Ford and Sync in particular, but this is a worthwhile milestone. Cars are changing fast, and although I doubt they'll look like these F-Zero-wannabes any time soon, the coalescing of all those dash controls into a single unit is a serious advance....
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Thats equal to 28,539 years. If we put those minutes end-on-end and launched them back into the mists of time, they'd reach the Pleistocene era - then they'd probably get eaten by a giant sloth, or Madonna - zing! The success of VOIP in Second Life is marked by the fact 50% of Second...
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