July 2009
13 posts
Games
Sabine and I need a new PS3 game. We’re long done with Little Big Planet and Sabine has resorted to donwloading Jet Moto. Can anyone recommend a good PS3 game for us?
World Wants to Know →
What is the use of melanine in humans? What food values are got from eating jackfruits? What is the least sparse district in Uganda?
A few of the questions asked through the QuestionBox and displayed on World Wants to Know. The QuestionBox is a device placed in rural, off-the-grid villages allowing villagers to essentially Google questions relavent to them. It offers great insight into the...
Review: Nokia N97 - So close, yet so very, very... →
mrmu:
“…feels exactly like what it is: a touchscreen user interface spun off of a non-touchscreen interface. It’s definitely usable, but by no means our favorite. If we had to rank it, it would be somewhere below iPhone OS, Android, and WebOS, but somewhere above Windows Mobile.”
Someone at Nokia made wrong decisions at some point and it may be a good decision that they are working on an...
Brownie points →
While trying to explain what “brownie points” are to a German colleague, I decided to Google the term to be sure I was correct. I was, in fact, incorrect. I was also surprised to find a Wikipedia entry on the subject. Fascinating (said in a Spock-like voice).
Brownie points in modern (21st century) usage are a hypothetical social currency, which can be accrued by doing good deeds or...