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Posted on 20110812

HTML5 or Flash? With Yokto’s New Video Player, You Don’t Have To Choose

via TechCrunch

Yokto is a newly launched video platform which offers an embeddable player that intelligently switches between a Flash-based … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110812

Friday Time-Waster: Play DOS Games In Your Chrome Browser

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NaClBox (get it?) is a port of DOSBox that allows DOS games to be played right in your browser. Right now you can play titles … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110812

Cowboy on a string: a look at Twisted Pixel’s The Gunstringer for Kinect

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In the next game from Twisted Pixel—the developer behind Xbox Live Arcade … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110810

Common sense on the way for TSA?

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Noah Shachtman at Wired News: “Bruce Schneier is a telepath of unimaginable power. That’s the only possible explanation for the … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110810

Portal 2 Achieves What Games Aspire To Be — A Funny, Enthralling, Thought-Provoking Story That Makes Money

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Portal 2, Valve’s follow-up to the groundbreaking, first-person puzzle game Portal, has been out since April 19 and has … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110810

Whole Foods’ Ramadan Marketing Headaches

via Fast Company

Whole Foods is encountering a not entirely unforeseen headache during their first Ramadan marketing campaign: Pressure from … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110810

A Portable Urban Farm, Made Entirely Of Milk Crates

via Fast Company

Using one of the city’s many stalled construction sites as a home, the farm of New York’s Riverpark restaurant supplies the … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110810

Can Analytics Help Fix Your Love Life?

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TheIcebreak is a newly launched online service that is supposed to help couples improve their relationships the … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110810

Bored by math class, student turns to squiggling

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[Video Link] To alleviate the boredom of math class, Vi Hart has taken to experimenting with squiggling. Be sure to check out … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110810

XKCD on the password paradox: human factors versus computers’ brute force

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Today’s XKCD, “Password Strength,” neatly illustrates the research from this paper (PDF) by Philip Inglesant and M. Angela … Read More >>

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