Archive for April, 2011
Sizzling Book Club Pick: The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
Book CoverIt’s not so much sizzling in northern coastal Scotland in the winter, but this book is amazing for it’s warmth, the strength of the writing, and the story-within-a-story. As I announced in the Book Club Chat last week, our April Book Club pick is Susanna Kearsley’s The Winter Sea. Previously published in Canada as [...]
Moving Beyond Teachers and Bosses
We train kids to deal with teachers in a certain way: Find out what they want, and do that, just barely, because there are other things to work on. Figure out how to say back exactly what they want to hear, with the least amount of effort, and you are a ‘good student.’ We train [...]
Re-Post From April Fools
How to buy and sell fans and followers It’s a lot of work to build a fan base for any person, company or brand. There’s listening, ongoing conversation, support, empathy… so much work. We’ve been thinking there must be a simpler way. Today, my colleagues at Ant’s Eye View are proud to announce FanAuction, a marketplace [...]
Big-Headed Caveboys And Infinite Adventures In This Week’s Nintendo Download
While we patiently wait for the 3DS Virtual Console to arrive, Nintendo continues to deliver fresh new and old content to the Wii and DSi, with the ginormous cranium of Hudson’s Super Bonk headlining this week’s offerings. Yes, North America finally gets a Virtual Console release of Super Bonk, the side-scrolling caveman platformer that hit [...]
Splitter Pals
Splitter Pals! Flying here and there and everywhere! Slicing through stages ’til they’re beyond repair, they are the Splitter Paaaaaaals! … whoa, sorry. I kind of went to a place there. Eugene Karataev’s cheery physics puzzle Splitter series makes a comeback and includes more cameos than you can shake a newly severed wooden stick at. [...]
Peak at Firefox 5′s Social Sharing, Identity Management, and File Previews
The Conceivably Tech blog pulls the highlights out of Mozilla’s UX Design team notes to provide a glimpse at what’s planned for Firefox 5 (or, potentially, 6 or 7). We’ve previously seen some big ideas from Mozilla; this preview looks at a few key features, including an identity manager that could allow for multiple, simultaneous [...]
Speedtest.net Overhauled With New Look, Features
Speedtest.net is pretty much the go-to site for quickly figuring out how fast (or slow) your connection really is and comparing the numbers your ISP boasts with what it actually delivers. And now it’s got a new coat of paint and a couple of neat features. In brief: New UI: The map widget is much [...]
