Monthly Archives: January 2008
new library of congress section has recently released public domain photos available
Amazon.com: Train Simulator: Video Games
Misio is a little amigurumi creature that makes your life more active and fun! Explore the photos submitted by Misios’ parents. You may want to adopt one for yourself!
What I bookmarked today
SEED Conference: Sketchnotes 15-16 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
really cool way of taking notes. i wish i thought in this style. I am more of an outliner and lister.
Black Mirror / rorriM kcalB
Arcade Fire presents Black Mirror – I LOVE THEIR MUSIC AND THEIR WEBS STUFF. THEY ALSO DID A GREAT VIDEO OF A PERFORMANCE IN AN ELEVATOR
Wii Flash Games – WiiPlayable
Play Wii flash games online at WiiPlayable. Play hundreds of games compatible with your Nintendo Wii controllers.
Meteor The Monstertruck
Roary the Racing Car – Official Site
Roary the Racing Car (produced by Chapman Entertainment) follows the adventures of a young racing car named Roary. The website is based on the pre-school TV series aired on Five�s Milkshake! and Nick Jr. Set in and around Silver Hatch racetrack, the stories explore Roary�s relationships with his amazing group of racing car friends including Big Chris, the karaoke loving mechanic, Cici the French stunt car & Maxi, the Italian F1 racing car. Roary the Racing Car – He�s the No.1 Star!
Collecting Unemployment | dooce ®
The Amateur Gourmet
The Amateur Gourmet is a humorous, energetic food blog filled with recipes, restaurant reviews, food videos and original songs all from the mind of Adam D. Roberts.
Orangette
she’s amazing. she’ll change your life
Skull-A-Day: 146. Baby Belly Skull(y)
sara has a skull on her belly!!!!
What I bookmarked today
Why Predictive Text Won’t Let You Swear • VideoSift: Online Video *Quality Control
Kerpoof™ Home
Kerpoof Home Page – Look Farmers, an animation maker…
Students Click, and a Quiz Becomes a Game – New York Times
A technology known as an audience response system is spreading to public and private schools across the country.
COMPARISON OF POSITIONS 2008 AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SelectSmart.com| President Candidates: Joe Biden, Elaine Brown, Michael Bloomberg Sam Brownback, Wesley Clark, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Jim Gilmore, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giulia
not the spreadsheet i was looking for, but it’s something
What I bookmarked today
Virtual Worlds News: Playhut’s GoLive2 Debuts Virtual World-Connected Toys
Playhut, maker of the Playland EZTwist tents and tunnels and Mystikat toys, launched an interactive toys division, GoLive2, with two virtual worlds back in October. The worlds targeted at kids from 6-13, Wowbotz for boys and Mystikats Kutties for girls, now have toys to go with them. The company will release four Kuttiez and four Wowbotz with matching accessory packs in the spring of 2008. Unlike most other meta-toys that just give kids access to the world, GoLive2 is making users work for them. Each toy comes with its own mini-games that in turn unlock passcodes that give users access to new areas in the virtual worlds. “I founded Playhut with the goal to bring a new way of play to the marketplace,” said Brian Zheng, CEO of Playhut. “With GoLive2 we are offering kids and their parents a very different and unique way of playing, based off the question, ‘How do you play?’ GoLive2 innovates play in a way that has not yet been introduced to the Toy Industry.”
Cisco TelePresence Holographic Video Conferencing
Musion Eyeliner creates amazing High-Definition 3D holograms that appear to float within a live stage setting.
PBS KIDS PLAY!
great tutorial of the new PBS play interface
Virtual Worlds Forum Blog » Blog Archive » PBS launches beta of Kids Play virtual world
It’ll cost $9.95 a month when it launches officially, or $79.95 for a yearly subscription. PBS is working with libraries and its local TV stations to offer free access to non-broadband users too. It sounds like a big project with plenty of thought behind it, although you could question whether it’s a virtual world in the generally accepted sense of the term – since there’s no interaction between users (something PBS is presenting as a safety feature). That isn’t a criticism of PBS: more food for thought about whether the term ‘virtual world’ includes this kind of application. Thoughts?
MMOGCHART.COM
While not being updated much anymore, this is an interesting site of historic data on mmogs
Virtual Worlds Forum Blog » Blog Archive » What separates a virtual world from an MMO?
Interesting discussion on a topic we ponder all the time in the industry. Virtual Worlds are part of MMOs, but virtual world is used to mean MMO in the mainstream now.
1154 LILL Studio: Custom Handbags
1154 LILL STUDIO is the original custom handbag boutique allowing you to custom design your own handbag, purse or tote online, in our stores or during a home handbag party. Create your own one-of-a-kind LILL Bag today
What I bookmarked today
Video: PBS KIDS Sprout(SM) Launches ‘Sprout Smart’ Prosocial Initiative with Mott’s for Tots(TM) and KidsHealth.org
Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media: Home
Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media: Home
the most in-depth content analysis of popular G-rated movies and gender in kids’ TV ever conducted.
Joan Ganz Cooney Center – Advancing Children’s Learning in a Digital Age
Cells, texting give predators secret path to kids – CNN.com
It’s happened again. A teacher is accused of having sex with a student and, like many times before, cell phone calls and texting reportedly had a role in sexually abusing a minor.
In The Hammer Lane To Happiness – Visit Cascadia
Welcome to the town that plays hard because we run smart.
What I bookmarked today
Ten Ton Hamster | Your Games. Your Friends. Your Worlds.
New aggregator site of all the kids gaming shows
A Complete List of the Many Forms of Web Marketing for 2008
Great list of web marketing avenues to kick off the new year from Jeremiah Oywang
January survival guide – Metromix Chicago Events
Get through the coldest, darkest month of the year, one day at a time
Grrr… Posting is hard
Happy new year everyone!
I am having a heck of a time getting time to post this month, with holidays, deadlines and a international vacation looming. I tried to set up my Ma.gnolia links to auto-fill in my blog, but it’s not working very well. I will keep trying, so that at least I can share my links with everyone.
Big plans for 2008. But they are keeping me very busy. More news later, just wanted to touch base.