Looking for a cool costume this Halloween? Please, for the love of Godpod, pass this one up! What the hell’s up with that mustache on Mario? [Shudder] And check out the stripper shoes on Princess Peach. Who knew?
[Via Kotaku]
iPod Nano “Thong”
R.I.P. Robert Moog
Thanks, Bob. You did good.
Darwin Award Winner of the Week!
According to Reuters UK, a 28-year old Korean man died after a 50-hour-straight computer gaming session at a Seoul Internet cafe. Cause of death was apparently heart failure due to exhaustion. The bit-happy dimwit had reportedly just quit his job so that he could devote more of his time to gaming. Hey, now he gets an eternity to do it!
CD-Rs: More Unstable Than You Think
According to a piece published in the Dutch magazine PC Active, tests done on CD-R media show that data stored on the discs may start to degrade in as little as two years. Ouch.
The entire issue of long-term storage of digitial data is one that has received precious little attention. The future may be one in which giant swaths of the present are missing, thanks to legacy storage media or media that has succumbed to dreaded “bit-rot.”
Time to fire up the old dot-matrix printer and slot in a box o’ fan-fold paper, pappa’s got several decades worth of digital history to hammer out.
Patents in a personal fabrication world
Sorry folks, I just finished reading Fab and burst a few brain cells thinking too hard about patents versus personal fabrication.
Video Games Leaking into the Real World
If the French post-modernist Baudrillard was right, and we live inside of television (or was it inside of Disneyland, I can’t remember), we’re probably living inside of computer/video games at this point as well. As if to drive home the point, a couple of pranksters in Windsor, Ontrario have been building lifesize Question Mark Boxes from Super Mario Brothers and suspending them from trees, powerlines, etc. “A friend” of the creator offers a how-to here.
[Via Joystiq]
Sniper Chic
C’mon, let’s take bets. How long do you think it’ll be before Isaac Mizrahi, Gaultier, or some other over-the-top designer works this fetching sniper bush look into a fall clothing line?
I’ll Have a Double McDownload, Hold the Spam, Please
It’s the freakin’ 21st century and they still haven’t perfected a drive-thru intercom you can decipher, but that’s not stopping McDonald’s from gettin’ all McDigital. The Chicago Tribune ran a story yesterday about a suburban Chi-Town flagship in the chain that’s offering an ATM-style kiosk so patrons can download music, ringtones, print out pictures from their phones and digital cameras, and websurf while they bloat up like Morgan Spurlock on burgers and fries. McDonald’s claims the effort is an attempt at reaching a younger, more tech-savvy diner, and if the Chicago restaurant is a success, they plan on opening up others, next in West Virginia and Florida. Yeah, when I think of “young” and “tech-savvy,” I immediately think West Virginia and Florida.
Is this the Joe Camel of Celluar?
As every brand manager will tell you, when it comes to building a loyal customer base, you want to hook ’em early and hook ’em often. This may be some of the motivation behind Tomy’s upcoming line of remote controlled toddler toys that are controlled via cell phones. It’s never too early to get little Biff and Ashley on the FamilySharing plan so they can “ring up” their toys in the back of the family Hummer.
[Via MobileBurn]