Our society is becoming increasingly more mobile. Nowadays, everybody has a smartphone – you’re considered somewhat odd if you don’t. As a result, mobile gaming has become big business, and it’s not hard to see why: mobile games simple, cheap, and addictive on-the-go fun. Unfortunately, they’re also far from perfect. New technologies rarely are.
The biggest problem anyone has with them is, not surprisingly, controls – particularly when touchscreens neter into the equation.
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By Jane Heller
For caregivers, life is filled with gut-wrenching moments that are best treated with a healthy dose of humor
If Earlie Johnson was aroused to anger on Tuesday afternoon, he had a good reason: His porn collection was stolen from his home in Muskegon, Mich.
The porn robbers broke through Johnson’s back door and also stole three flat screen television sets, according to MLive.com.
Johnson, 43, estimates his collection is worth around $7,500, especially because it features hard-to-get films dating back to the 1970s featuring African American adult actresses.
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The worlds of rock music and academia are not entirely separate. Noam Chomsky has appeared on stage with Rage Against the Machine. Poet Paul Muldoon and fellow Princeton professors play gigs as the Wayside Shrines. And, of course, plenty of students opt for courses that deconstruct Madonna, probe the historical impact of the Beatles, and so on.
But in Yugoslavia, and particularly Slovenia, a particularly close relationship sprang up in the 1970s between punks and professors. “At that time, classical political and social critique was not possible, so the political and cultural discontent and critique took the form of Rock music,” explains sociologist and politician Pavel Gantar. “Punk Rock music was a form of contestation. Later on, the State started to apply political oppression, and, as I said, intellectuals came out against this oppression. In the late 1970s, Rock music substituted for the absence of political and social criticism.”
Intellectuals came to the defense of punk rockers, and musicians expressed many of the sentiments that intellectuals couldn’t safely utter in public. The music scene in Yugoslavia soon became the envy of everyone else in the Eastern bloc, and many music fans in the West also began to follow bands like Pankrti and Laibach.
When I think of the word unreasonable, two types of people come to mind: bitter ex spouses and toddlers.
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Are you an avid purchaser of vegetables/fruit? Do you stare at them in bewilderment after their 2 day stay in the fridge leaves them mould riddled? If the answer to both these questions is yes and you want to keep your food fresher for longer, then ExtraLife’s Produce Preserver Disks could be just the ticket. The idea? Pop a disk into your refrigerator bin and enjoy fresher food. The details? Come on in and see for yourself…
Before I got married and then divorced, I believed in all of the “happily-ever-after” fairy tales. I believed in the nonsense that rom-coms push down our throats about soulmates and forever and love at first sight.
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Baby Banana Bendable Training Toothbrush is ideal for infants when it comes to teething comfort and healthy gums. For parents, it gives the advantage of teaching oral hygiene early.
Someone must have declared it Google TV Update Week without telling us: just days after a Vizio Co-Star upgrade, Sony’s NSZ-GS7 Internet Player is getting its own tune-up. The Sony update parallels its Vizio counterpart in focusing mostly on the features from the fall 2012 Google TV revamp, including PrimeTime and the updated YouTube app. Viewers pining for Amazon VOD access can also grab its app through Google Play. Sony mostly claims an edge over Vizio through its support for the equally new voice search feature: owners just have to chat with Sony’s remote to get things done, instead of leaning on phone or tablet control. However GS7 owners plan to steer their TVs, they’ll just need to check for a software update in the days ahead to rejuvenate their set-top boxes.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD, Sony
Source: Sony
Wikipedia has long been pushing for access to its communal knowledge among those who can’t afford the latest technology, going so far as to strike deals with carriers to deliver free mobile web viewing. It’s set to expand that reach to those for whom any advanced cellphone is out of the question. In part through the help of a Knight News Challenge grant and South Africa’s Praekelt Foundation, the non-profit’s Wikipedia Zero effort will offer its content through SMS and USSD messages in the next few months. Curious users will just have to send a text message to get an article in response, with no web required at all. It’s a big step forward for democratizing online information for those who may not even have access to a smartphone, although we’re curious as to how it will handle large articles; we can only imagine the volume of messages when trying to look up the known universe.
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Mobile
Via: The Verge
Source: Knight Foundation, MediaWiki
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