The big headlines on the top of Yahoo!’s news page today: Hello Kitty marketing being retargeted at young males! Japanese people are crazy for pen spinning! Hilary or Oprah: which woman do Americans respect most?
Glad to see that the internet is on top of the hard-hitting news, when there’s a country with nuclear weapons that’s [...]

Happy Holidays, everyone! I can tell it’s Christmas Eve, because I sincerely hope that everybody’s having a happy holiday, even the people that annoy me.
(Speaking of people that annoy me: I think I finally made one of my shallow epiphanies towards understanding the ongoing War on Tolerance that takes place around this time of year. [...]

There’s a guy at Carnegie Mellon named Johnny Chung Lee, who’s been doing experiments with the Wii remote, then putting his results up on YouTube.
The ones I’ve seen take advantage of the fact that the Wii remote is an IR camera, not just a standard IR-output remote, which flips the whole method of interactivity with [...]

Last year when I was stationed at Epcot, I wrote about the promotional video that runs in a constant loop on the TVs in all the Disney hotels. It’s hosted by the annoying and yet inexplicably alluring Stacey, who guides you, talking incessantly, through all the theme parks, water parks, golf courses, and stores of [...]

Considering how memorable the stories are, it’s obvious Stephen King and the fearmeisters responsible for The Car were tapping into something primal and universal with the idea of an evil car.
I just think that by having the car totally flip out and kill people, they missed out on a prime opportunity for dread and true [...]

Last week, Nintendo released Pokemon Snap for the virtual console. (Still no word if they’ll be releasing its obscure sequel, Pikachu, Oh No You Di’nt!)
The original game was a brilliant concept — a Pokemon photo safari — and it was presented really well. I’ll never understand why it didn’t go on to become a huge [...]

There’s a new update for GarageBand that adds a “Send to Ringtones” item to the “Share” menu.
That’s kind of cool, just because it means I can finally start using “Apache” by the Sugarhill Gang as my ringtone again.
But what’s more cool is that it’s a sign there’s still remnants of a soul left somewhere in [...]

The biggest problem with the internet is that you’ve got to wade through so much crap to get to the good stuff. With this whole “web-logging” fad, that means to see funny pictures of talking cats, or copyright-violating YouTube videos, you’ve first got to make it through reams of text with the blogger’s “personality.”
And of [...]