SXSW 2009: Night One

The cool, wet <not>Vancouver</not> Austin atmosphere hit our group as we were herded from the airport to a waiting Super Shuttle. It felt as if we’d never left the Wet Coast. The driver rattled off...

Neil Gaiman wins 2009 Newbery Medal

At 5:30am, author Neil Gaiman was woken by his assistant and, after a few drowsy minutes of phone tag, greeted by a panel of 14 librarians and book critics congratulating him on winning the 2009 Newbery Medal for...

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters – Review

Back in high school I worked at a local arcade where the days were filled with kids puking on the floors, drunk teenagers crapping on the walls, and parents complaining that the arcade cabinets stole their...

Fallout 3 Review

When you escape the oppressive confines of Vault 101, you'll stumble into the irradiated landscape known as The Wastelands, a place so desolate, dangerous, and depressing that it’s enough to turn any...

TV dinners turn 55 this year!

November 26, 1953,  the Swanson TV dinner appeared in grocery stores after the company had to get rid of a deluge of leftover Thanksgiving turkey. Since then, the TV dinner has been a household staple,...

Vancouver Olympic clock goes out

Looks like Vancouver's Olympic countdown clock died on Thursday, and its human overlords, EEC Industries, don't really know why. Vandalism has been ruled out unless "somebody walked by with a really big magnet."...

JetBlue Twitterer gets customer a wheelchair

Wanda Morillo needed a wheelchair for the plane and decided to send out a Twitter plea to @JetBlue instead of contacting customer service at the airport. " ...

PC Magazine ends print magazine after 26 years

Ziff Davis' premier PC magazine, um, PC Magazine just ended its 26 year print run in the real world, and has gone digital. The latest victim of the rising distribution and raw material costs, and falling economy,...

Bloggers, Vloggers, and email forwards mark World Diabetes Day

World Diabetes Day began this morning, and the Internet showed up in complete support. Oft forgotten charities got some important notice, and it went a long way in raising awareness of this common, but life...

Gamers are richer and have better lives than you

2008 is a great time to be a member of the technology elite: they're smarter, richer, and fitter than the average citiz3n. In addition to the digg-bait studies that explain why computers, video games, and weed...