Microsoft has accompanied the third of its anti-Apple commercials with a creative document detailing what it calls the ‘Apple Tax’. The latest ad follows the same theme: ‘ordinary’ shoppers (this time a mother and son) head out with a $1,500 budget and wind up choosing a PC over a Mac. This time the requirements are [...]
Dave Arneson, one of the men who created Dungeons & Dragons, has died from cancer aged 61. While it was colleague Gary Gygax who specifically wrote what became Dungeons & Dragons, Arneson played a vital role in both the creation of the game and the development of the role-playing game concept. He had taken a [...]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] My apologies for the unimaginative headline, but after reading several news stories yesterday with titles that involved Leonard Nimoy “beaming up” or “trekking over” to FOX’s show Fringe, I simply couldn’t perpetuate the lameness. (And I should note that what follows should not be considered any kind of spoiler [...]
In the following video presentation, microbiologist Bonnie Bassler explains how she discovered that bacteria “talk” to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry — and our understanding of ourselves.
Microsoft has revealed that almost all e-mails sent today are spam – though the figure fell slightly with the disconnection of a hosting provider which numbered a major spam network among its customers. The figures only relate to e-mails sent to customers of the Microsoft Forefront Online Security for Exchange service (FOSE) rather than the [...]
This guy has to be the biggest douchebag of all time. Check him out selling the merits of his business card.
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Microsoft is 0 for 2 today with legal skirmishes in other countries. The good news is, they only have to pay $11.9 million to Germany, for an illegal competition fine that stemmed from the company pressing a German retailer to sell Office 2007 software at a certain price. They [...]
Who will win the office race -the digital camera, the mouse, the PDA, the remote control, the cell phone, or another handheld gadget? I believe this is another of those creative Samsung ads that goes viral about once a week. [via Bits and Pieces]
The Associated Press is seriously trying to corner the market in news, and making sure that no one sees it. AP is going after anyone and everyone that uses content they’ve sucked up from their affiliates -and that includes their affiliates! WTNQ-FM received a cease-and-desist notice from AP for embedding a video from the AP’s [...]
This thing is called the “Scarpar Powerboard” and has apparently been under development since the 90s. From the look of it, it seems that this off-road powerboard can truly go everywhere. I mean, have you seen it glide over that log? Pretty darn impressive. [Via Gizmodo]
A sweet summer blockbuster guaranteed to get your blood sugar level rising.
By Sterling “Chip” Camden Contributing Writer, [GAS] Today Mark Zuckerberg, the lucky stiff visionary entrepreneur who started Facebook, announced that his social media brainchild will log its 200 millionth user today. That’s a lot of people. As stated in the accompanying video, a country of 200 million would be the fifth most populous in the [...]
