Ignored in high school, the geek princes of social media now thrive on attention from eager fanboys (and calculating flacks). Relentless Fast Company egoblogger Robert Scoble was their king. Until he got dethroned. Scoble — chubby, bespectacled, and awkward, the unlikeliest of all video person...

Within moments of starting Zen Bound , I was completely embarrassed we hadn't yet featured it on "iPhone It In." No discussion of the iPhone as a platform that omits this soothing, beautiful puzzle game can really call itself complete. Hell, in terms of making use of the iPhone's specific strengths,...

John Celmer, the man whose death is the subject of the Final Exit Network assisted suicide criminal charges, was not terminally ill. Indeed, he had apparently beaten his cancer. From the story: John Celmer was making what his doctor considered “remarkable progress� last spring after two surgerie...

I have been following various aspects of the FEN activists' arrests. But this aspect of the story really caught my attention. SHSers will recall that I mentioned the book A Chosen Death in a previous post, and how its author Lonny Shavelson watched a Hemlock operative kill "Gene" by preventing him f...

The follow-up to Taito's platformer-puzzler Exit is your Xbox Live Arcade game of the week, giving Mr. ESC all new burning buildings to escape from and near-death experiences to help others avoid. The sequel, Exit 2 , gives fans of escorting the helpless 240 new stages to play through. Mr. ESC will ...

Ah, le blog, soupape de sécurité des esprits en surchauffe. Pssssssshhhhh. J'écoute Jungle Drum d'Emiliana Torrini, et c'est rafraîchissant. Hier soir, je regardais avec Georges ce film d'Eastwood, Gran Torino. Oué. enfin je crois. J'ai pas fait gaffe. J'aurais eu des trucs un peu plus construc...

A weakened economy won’t put a dent on Xbox Live Marketplace releases this week as we’ll be seeing a slew of game add-ons and new Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) titles. For starters, the eagerly anticipated “Grand Theft Auto IV” expansion pack “The Lost and Damned” is no...

Mutiny Revisited February 13th, 2009 With the end of Battlestar Galactica only a few months away, it has come to the point where we are beginning to place into context just what we’re watching. When I wrote a lengthy and esoteric review of “The Oath” in the hours after its airing, ...

One of the fun part of my professional life is all the email I get from you. Yes it is an insignificant amount of work but it means I learn a lot about what’s on your mind, what you find hard, what you find easy, what challenges bedevil you. At the moment the “could you help me” / ...

Oh, man they totally give away a cliffhanger from last night!Glad I don't want to be a spoiler-virgin. I'm sure it's darn hard. Not safe to watch even watch the promos on tv.   This video is mislabeled (wishful thinking?) but it is for next week's episode. Thank you, indysid! American Promo for...