Cool gadget with an awful name: the Entertaible by Philips a horizontal touch-screen that combines electronic gaming and traditional board games.
Hey, Iff, I wonder if it’s possible to program your own games into it. That would make the logistics for your game* a lot easier.
(*Is it called Operation Teardrop? I can’t remember. LJ needs a search function.)
From the Star Trek inspirational posters:
It actually doesn’t seem that complicated if you’ve ever played Arkham Horror.
I’ve seen the Trek episode and played the game referenced. Oy.
How nerdy am I?
Well, my wife and I went to a Shakespeare-by-the-Sea production of The Wizard of Oz in Halifax, which contained lots of fourth-wall-breaking modern references.
At one point, the Wicked Witch threatens to send a pack of wolves against Dorothy and the crew.
The Tin Woodsman answers back, “My axe is +3 against wolves!”
I was the only one who laughed. And I laughed my ass off.
An article I wrote yesterday for the new CBC Tech section on the new SanDisk music player has been Slashdotted.
I might not have posted this if it hadn’t been for a new definition of cool in the /. post’s comments:
How about Bruce Willis on a hoverboard listening to bootleg OGGs of George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic on a homemade altoids-tin music player, kissing Salma Hayek, and fighting Christopher Walken, Jet Li, the Rock, and an army of robot sharks with rocket-packs?
Gotta admit. That’s pretty darn cool. Except the sharks need frickin’ lasers on their foreheads.
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