From the get-go, the makers of Twitter knew that the website’s data would be too big to process, organize, and condense into digestible comprehensive information. So early on, they decided to adopt hashtags in order to categorize tweets quickly. Now when you tweet, it is organized into topics, and any topics with tons of tweets are obvious trends. Simple. Tweetping does something else with … Continued
One of the things I have noticed is that people love lists (to death), so I have decided to toss my own list into the fray. What is my list? Well, I am going to give you my top ten list of favorite video game characters! In order to do that, however, some criteria will be needed to follow. I … Continued
Valve at the Consumer Electronics Show during the first week of January, Valve and Xi3 revealed a prototype for what they hope will be the new face of gaming: code-name “Piston.” What the Piston project seeks to do is combine a few popular platforms for gaming into one tiny and powerful console, making gaming more centralized and adaptable. Fitting into … Continued
So you’re tired of getting in trouble with your roommates and neighbors because your sub is just too powerful. Have no fear because I’m here to give you the know-how when it comes to sound proofing your personal space. We’ve all heard stories about saving egg cartons and pinning them to your walls in a meager attempt to soundproof a … Continued
Patents are something that the majority of Americans aren’t too familiar with. While they run our daily lives, and we interact with the fruits of their labor on an almost constant basis, the average person hasn’t been exposed to what it means to protect “intellectual property,” and how that affects the world’s market.
The vast majority of us in Washington State have Comcast as our internet service provider. As of 2010, Comcast was providing internet to 16.7 million households. There is also Century Link, the third largest telecom in the country, who absorbed QWEST in 2010. Comcast provides cable internet while Century Link is a DSL provider. There are a limited amount of other options, … Continued
Be warned, this review contains several spoilers. There are certain statements used to preface a negatively toned article. “Let me start off by saying…” is a pretty common one, and I feel it might be appropriate. The same way my mom will never be my best critic, merely my favorite one, I lament my own disdain for this final Batman … Continued
If somehow you’ve managed to not hear about the latest craze in the Steam Summer Sale by Valve, your resistance to mainstream media is impressive. The web is ablaze with discussion groups, wikis, reviews and even television coverage of the new mod for the 2009 first person shooter Arma II entitled simply “DayZ.” DayZ currently boasts 550,000 players, and this number is growing. … Continued
Douglas Adams summed up space travel fairly well, saying, “Space… is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind bogglingly big it is.” In the past few months, a private company was able to dock an unmanned capsule with the International Space Station. This feat of engineering and science foreshadows the next step in humanity’s relationship with … Continued
Alex Peake and his crew at Primer Labs are working on creating a game that teaches you how to make games. Code Hero is a game being developed by Primer Labs that teaches people how to write code while playing in an interactive 3D environment. It can be described as a co-op, first-person science shooter where you can manipulate the … Continued
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