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| AXbo Sleep Phase Alarm Clock – the fancy Swedish answer to a noisy cockerel
October 9, 2009 at 8:35 am
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The AXbo Sleep Phase Alarm Clock is Sweden’s answer to a grenade launcher being fired outside your bedroom door in the [...]
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| TXTBlocker – stop your kids texting while driving
October 9, 2009 at 7:58 am
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TXTBlocker is a software and online service combo which locks off a registered mobile phone from making or receiving text messages [...]
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| iMemories – Preserve the family history
October 9, 2009 at 7:53 am
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iMemories is another media preservation and archiving service. You send them your old negatives, photos, video tapes or movie film [...]
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| IMM Barber USB 2GB Flash Drive – Danny Zuko's USB Stick
October 9, 2009 at 7:19 am
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The IMM Barber USB 2GB Flash Drive. It’s a comb and it’s a 2GB USB Flash Drive. Nothing to see [...]
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| Kaleido R7 Digital Frame – Good looks, terrific brains
October 9, 2009 at 6:57 am
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There are a million-and-one digital photo frames out there, heck some of them have built into DVB tuners. The IPEVO [...]
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| NASA Blasts Moon With LCROSS in Search of Water
October 9, 2009 at 10:07 am
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| | By Michael Santo Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews NASA’s latest lunar mission has just given the man in the moon a wake-up call this morning. Two spacecraft in the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite or LCROSS mission impacted the surface of the moon in hopes of finding water. NASA has confirmed it is certain the two portions of the LCROSS [...] | | |  |
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| Expressive Processing Arrives
October 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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| | I'm happy to announce the publication of my first monograph, Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies. As the subtitle suggests, this book is a software studies take on the past and future of digital fictions and games. As of today it's available in bookstores as well ... |
| Moving to UC Santa Cruz
October 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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| | I'm pleased to announce that I'm joining my fellow Grand Text Auto blogger Michael Mateas in the Computer Science department at UC Santa Cruz! Like Michael, I was recruited by a search committee headed by Jim Whitehead -- the mastermind behind the UC system's first computer game degree. They have also ... |
| Expressive Processing on Grand Text Auto
October 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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| | One of the pleasures of Grand Text Auto is the experimentation we undertake with the blog form. Last fall we spawned a gallery exhibition from the blog, at UC Irvine's Beall Center for Art and Technology. Today, I'm happy to announce, we've begun an experiment in blog-based peer review -- ... |
| Media Workshop & Communicating
October 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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| | The initial versions of the syllabi for Advanced Workshop in Communication Media (my graduate course, COGR 280) and Communicating and Computers (my undergraduate course, COMT 111a) are now online. In both course we're taking a look at Mary Flanagan and Helen Nissenbaum's Values at Play research project and curriculum -- ... |
| Intro to Computer Game Studies, Spring 07
October 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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| | Back in September I posted the syllabus for my Fall 2006 graduate seminar in game studies. Now that this site is back online, here's a link to my Spring 2007 undergrad computer game studies lecture course. |
| Second Person arrives
October 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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| | Pat Harrigan and I enjoyed editing First Person -- and readers seemed to enjoy its broad view of our field. Now Pat and I are happy to announce the publication of a follow-up volume, Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media. The contributors to this book ... |
| receiver, Tate, Encyclopedia, Speakeasy and a minima
October 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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| | This year brought a number of interesting opportunities to share thoughts with new communities. Most recently, the 17th issue of Vodaphone's receiver just launched, including my article "Three play effects: Eliza, Tale-Spin, and SimCity." Before that, I contributed to the Tate's e and eye project with a piece titled "e ... |
| Computer Game Studies, Fall 06
October 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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| | I've just posted the current draft of my syllabus for the graduate seminar I'll be leading at UCSD this fall: Computer Game Studies. |
| Dissertation posted
October 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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| | After being given the nod by Brown University's Graduate Council, I was recently supported to do a non-departmental "Special Graduate Studies" PhD. I couldn't have been happier with my committee -- chaired by Andy van Dam, and including Wendy Chun, Robert Coover, David Durand, and George Landow. I'm particularly indebted ... |
| In with the new
October 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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| | I started a site called hyperfiction.org in 2002, with the goal of creating something like what our collaborative blog -- Grand Text Auto -- has become. So now, after long neglect, I'm returning to revamp my personal website, re-christened noahwf.com. There won't be much active blogging here, but occasional news ... | | | 
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| do they know it's babylon at all?
October 8, 2009 at 1:50 pm
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This week on the podcast we deck the halls, light the menorah and learn:
â our love/hate relationship with Santa
â how Judy Bloom ruined Christmas
Ãï all about the holiday songs that matter
â what inappropriate animal-cruelty-in-the-name-of-fashion will come up
â just how "Chinese" is the Coffee ice-cream?
As always, this, and EVERY, BEWARE OF THE BABYLON podcast can be automatically downloaded to your computer and transferred to your IPod through ITunes.
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This week on the podcast we deck the halls, light the menorah and learn:
â our love/hate relationship with Santa
â how Judy Bloom ruined Christmas
â all about the holiday songs that matter
â what inappropriate animal-cruelty-in-the-name-of-fashion will come up
â just how "Chinese" is the Coffee ice-cream?
As always, this, and EVERY, BEWARE OF THE BABYLON podcast can be automatically downloaded to your computer and transferred to your IPod through ITunes.
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| Adobe Reader Security Vulnerabilities
October 8, 2009 at 4:06 pm
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| Adobe has posted information about a known critical security vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat on Windows, Mac and Unix operating systems. According to Adobe there are reports about a limited attack on the Windows versions of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 9.1.3 (and most likely earlier). A patch that is fixing the issue will be released by Adobe on October 13 for all operating systems as part of the Adobe Reader and Acrobat quarterly security update. Windows Vista and Windows 7 who have DEP enabled (that’s Data Execution Prevention) are protected from the exploit. Users who work with different operating systems are encouraged to disable JavaScript to protect against the specific known exploit. Adobe mentions that it is on the other hand possible to create an exploit that does not rely on JavaScript.
Adobe plans to resolve this issue as part of the upcoming Adobe Reader and Acrobat quarterly security update, scheduled for release on October 13. Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3 customers with DEP enabled on Windows Vista will be protected from this exploit. Disabling JavaScript also mitigates against this specific exploit, although a variant that does not rely on JavaScript could be possible. In the meantime, Adobe is also in contact with Antivirus and Security vendors regarding the issue and recommends users keep their anti-virus definitions up to date. Probably the best protection at this point is to uninstall Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat and install a third party pdf viewer like Foxit Reader, muPDF or STDU Viewer. Additional information are available at the Adobe website. Tags: adobe, adobe acrobat, adobe reader, adobe reader exploit, adobe reader vulnerability, pdf
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| Yahoo Meme Opens Registrations For Anyone
October 8, 2009 at 2:41 pm
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|  We reviewed Yahoo Meme a while ago here at Ghacks and gave out several invites to Yahoo’s Twitter-like service. The service was in private beta back then which meant that only users with invites were allowed to use it. Yahoo Meme expands on the basic options that Twitter is offering to its users. It gets rid of the character limit and accepts direct picture, video and audio posts. Something that Twitter users can only post as links.
Yahoo Meme is still in beta but a recent silent change makes it possible to anyone to register an account without invites. That’s a big change to before and it remains to be seen if the developers have opened registrations just for a short time or permanently. 
Users who want to try out Yahoo Meme can visit the main page of the service to sign in with a Yahoo account or create a new Yahoo account for that purpose. The process does not take longer than a few minutes the most. Yahoo Meme offers many advantages over Twitter like the aforementioned ones. The only thing that it currently lacks is popularity. This could change if the service is promoted in the right way by Yahoo. You can follow Ghacks at Yahoo Meme by visiting the official Ghacks page at Yahoo Meme. Tags: twitter, twitter clone, yahoo, yahoo meme
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