The 25 best smartphone games of 2011 (so far)
Vacancy
Image by Roscoe Van Damme (In Memory of Maureen)
Wow this movie was suspenseful as all hell. I liked it a lot, I had
doubts about seeing Luke Wilson in a horror/suspense type movie but
he did good I think. Seeing this movie now and having seen The
Strangers a few months back, they’re pretty much the same movie
thought. Several the themes in the movies are the same as are
character relationships. It’s as if seeing The Strangers again, just
set in an alternate location. But since Vacancy came out first I
suppose that would make The Strangers the copycat.
The 25 best smartphone games of 2011 (so far)
Almost half way through the year, here are the best iOS, Android and WP7 titles so far, handpicked with help from the team at PocketGamer Last year was all about Angry Birds. The unlikely catapult-based physics puzzler saw 100 million downloads (now 200 million!) as well as translations to all the smartphone formats – and a movie tie-in deal. Yes, the mind really does boggle. So what have been …
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“Like A Toothbrush”: Larry Page Live-Google+’s His Own Earnings Call
Today, during the earnings call about Google’s great Q2 2011 results , CEO Larry Page kicked things off. While this was technically his first full quarter as CEO, he got some flak during the last earnings call for only saying a few sentences. This time, he went much further, even sticking around for the Q&A session. He also did something really cool: as he was on the call, he posted all of his …
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Summertime In The Sunny South
It’s summertime here in the sunny South, and Dog Days are upon us. How do we know? We get hot water from both sides of the tap instead of hot’s on the left and cold’s on the right like the plumbers tell us. Dogs hang around trying to find a cool place under the porch or the house, except mine.
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“Lumiere,” Redon, and the Lumieres
The image at left is a lithograph by Odilon Redon entitled “Light” (in French, “Lumiere”). It’s one of 40 artworks…
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