mjn writes “Game designer and academic Ian Bogost announces Cow Clicker, a Facebook game implementing the mechanics of the Facebook-games genre stripped to their core. You get a cow, which you can click on every six hours. You earn additional clicks if your friends in your pasture also click. You can buy premium cows with ‘mooney,’ and also use your mooney to buy more clicks. You can buy mooney with real dollars, or earn some free bonus mooney if (more…)

Just a short while ago, we all assumed the Kindle was to be for books what the iPod was to music: the thing that ‘changed everything’ about how the medium was used in modern times. Oh, how times have changed.

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This has got to be one of the best fatalities I have ever seen aside from Liu Kang turning into a dragon and eating the upper half of your body.For some reason I don’t think this is what they had in mind when they asked for a chair.

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Carl Froch reveals he is carrying an injury ahead of his WBC super middleweight fight against Dane Mikkel Kessler on Saturday.

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Several months ago, as a way to prevent the use of cellular phones in criminal activities, the government of Mexico started a program to require all phone owners to register cell phones in their own names. The registry associates each phone with the listed owner’s Clave Unica de Registro de Poblacion (CURP) [CURP, in English], which is supposed to be a unique ID for every Mexican citizen. Now, as nanahuatzin writes,

Yesterday the timeline to register (more…)

Olympic silver medallist Heather Fell says she is “not feeling on top of things” after a virus and is simply hoping to make the final of the latest World Cup leg, in Kent.

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itwbennett writes “After a networking error first reported on Wednesday last week caused computers in Chile and the US to come under the control of a system that censors the Internet in China, the ‘root DNS server associated with the networking problems has been disconnected from the Internet,’ writes Robert McMillan. The server’s operator, Netnod, has ‘withdrawn route announcements’ made by the server, according to company CEO Kurt Lindqvist.”

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1sockchuck writes “Happy Feet animator Dr. D Studios has packed a large amount of supercomputing power into a smaller package in its new render farm in Sydney, Australia. The digital production shop has consolidated the 150 blade chassis used in the 2007 dancing penguin feature into just 24 chassis, entirely housed in a hot-aisle containment pod. The Dr. D render farm has moved from its previous home at Equinix to the E3 Pegasus data center in Sydney. (more…)

It seems things are looking up for EA. During yesterday’s investor call, EA touted combine worldwide sales of Left 4 Dead 2 and Dragon Age Origins to have reached 5.6 million units. That, combined with sales of other established EA franchises, like Madden, resulted in EA losing only $86 million last quarter.

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An anonymous reader writes “I purchased Rebel EFI in support of Psystar’s crusade back in October. Just 3 short months later, I have no support. I found this out when I upgraded my hard drive and installed Snow Leopard using Rebel EFI. The program can no longer ‘phone home’ to activate or download/install drivers. This is a direct contradiction to Psystar’s promise posted on their website: ‘Psystar will continue to support all of its existing customers (more…)