Culture Buzz A 3-year-old girl plays “Elder Scrolls: Skyrim,” a video game that is made for people who are considerably older than 3-years-old. But she really wants to sword the bejeesus out of that guy.
Apparently everything will be a screen. Roads, cars, glasses, etc. All will be screens. For some reason this terrifies me. (via gizmodo.com)
Tech Buzz Bill Gates on the passing of his peer and respected competitor, Steve Jobs.
Nailed it. These charts illustrate how six of the biggest tech companies are organized. (via bonkersworld.net)
Ever feel like Don Quixote, fighting unmovable windmills? So did Rosa Llap, who designed this awesome poster for AdBusters.
Science! A new study from a “psychometric consulting company” took the results from online IQ tests and correlated them with the browsers of those who took the online IQ tests. IE users, of any version, scored lower than all other users. Smartest? Opera users. This wasn't designed to troll Microsoft at all. (via technolog.msnbc.msn.com)
This is a surprisingly decent parody video that Microsoft put together for its annual sales conference. That said, everyone I know seems to like Gmail despite its Orwellian underpinnings, so the premise may be flawed. (via gizmodo.com)
I was wondering why IE5 was leaving me burned. I'm kidding. I cover myself in Chrome and reflect the UV rays back at the sun. (via fuckyeahdementia.com)
E3 is behind us, but the road that every gamer must travel starts with the pixel. That's the premise behind this video from CBS News, which gives a brief history of video gaming.
Culture Buzz You may have seen some of these before, but never like this. And never in such [delicious] quantity!
Webtrends analyzed tweets, blogs, and various other social media statistics to determine which company, publisher, and celebrity generated the most buzz at this year's E3. Who do you think was the winner? (via mashable.com)
Looks like there's some branching out in the computer industry? Bill Gates is expanding into new territory, and Linux is making open-source home goods.
Tech Buzz Now if we can just merge Skype with the Kinect, everyone can hedge bets on if the future is Skynet or 1984. Microsoft continues its unrelenting march towards the homogenization of technology whether we like it or not.
Microsoft is super hot on the BuzzFeed Network right now. Here's all the best viral buzz on Microsoft.
Tech Buzz Microsoft has been forced to make an apology following a marketing tweet aiming to raise money for victims of the tsunami and earthquake in Japan provoked a mixed response. Yikes.
The worst digital dos in gaming history. Mario wisely opted for a hat.
http://www.switched.com/2010/12/07/5-best-laptops-guide-b...
Despite the fact that most Americans have been doing it for at least a decade, buying a laptop is getting increasingly difficult.
A mod of the XBox Kinect that follows your boobs when…hey! Eyes up here, buster! You're a disgusting pig, Kinect. Now they need a Pecker Predictor for Brett Favre and Charlie Sheen.
Culture Buzz Video game hardware modded into pipes for smoking your Wiid and Nintendope. There's Rule 34 for everything becoming porn. Is there a rule for everything becoming bongs? (And I know most of these aren't bongs, but “Video Game Pipes” doesn't have the same ring to it.)
http://www.switched.com/2010/11/08/windows-phone-7-micros...
Shit just got super real, AppleBerryDroid!