Boing Boing contributing editor Lisa Katayama reports on the marriage in Japan between a man known as "Sal9000" and Nene Anegasaki, a character in the Nintendo DS dating simulation game "Love Plus." More on Boing Boing blog: www.boingboing.net And an interview with the groom: www.boingboing.net Producer: Xeni Jardin Editor: Eric Mittleman Read Full Story
Assassin's Creed 2, The Beatles: Rock Band , Borderlands, Brutal Legend, Dragon Age: Origins, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Left 4 Dead 2, Modern Warfare 2, New Super Mario Bros . Wii. There, are we done? For the majority of top 10 of 2009 lists spreading fungally across every site covering games, probably, and they're not at all particularly wrong. Read Full Story
Here's Howard Gossage's February 1960 Harpers essay, "How to Look at Billboards," in which he argues for the impending demise of billboard advertising due to zoning rules. Gossage, an advertising exec has some well-thought-through tactical advice for the paleo-adbusters of the 1960s:
Do you see why it is a mistake to attack outdoor advertising on aesthetic grounds? The row then becomes a matter of comparative beauty and one can go on haggling about that forever. In a sense the garden... Read Full Story
A tiny authentication chip in the headset with on-cord control shipped with the just-released iPod shuffle is raising concerns among some that Apple will extort licensing fees from third-party headset manufacturers who wish to make headsets compatible with Apple’s new music playing devices. First reported Friday in a review of the new shuffle at iLounge , the authentication chip was then derided by the Electronic Frontier Foundation as Apple’s attempt to invoke the Digital Millennium... Read Full Story
• Sony made a pair of cute retro keychain-sized speakers .
• iFixit ripped up a Kindle 2 . Rrrraaaaagh! But it is XKCD that reveals the shocking truth .
• The Walkman X1000 is available for pre-order , at least in England. Is it better than the iPod Touch?
• Chinavision's USB Airplane thumbdrive invites raised eyebrows.
• You may now buy a computer that lives inside its own wallwart .
• Guess what operating system runs on 1 in 3 netbooks that Dell sells?
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• Apple confirms to BBG that the iPod headphones have a licensed chip—but it isn't for DRM or authentication.
• The Sound Advice Project makes waveform bracelets.
• Lenovo's Vaio P-meets-Moleskine mini laptop turns out to be a prototype from years ago . And yet it is so beautiful.
• SpeakEasy is a slightly better iPhone voice recording app .
• Rebraun is a one-off MP3 console inspired by Dieter Rams .
• BMW designed a gaming PC. No, really .
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The website apprejections.com tracks mentions of applications that have been rejected by Apple for sale in the App Store. More at readwriteweb....Source : Click World News ( subscribe )Explore : iPhone , Phone Read Full Story
In case you weren't aware, email humbly began as some sort of paranormal force whose sole objective was to materialize out of thin air and terrify middle-aged businessmen. BB Gadgets posted this Honeywell ad for email, which seems to be from 1977 or thereabouts. Seeing the type of damage email was doing back then, I can understand why it took another 25 years to attract a mainstream following. Enlisting the services of that friendly, nonthreatening AOL man was a much better marketing... Read Full Story
Mac |Life magazine recently approached me and several other people (Brian Lam, Veronica Belmont, Michael Brook, Mark McClusky) to envision a future product from Apple . Mac |Life rendered them beautifully, and the products the other people …
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How might one repair a cyborg's eye in the future? Why, with this handy eyeball removing tool. How does one forget what's seen in this image? Macallan 12 years, neat, that's how. [ Bloomers and Bows via Boing Boing Gadgets ]
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