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Activating Jeopardy! Beast Mode: Two True Daily Doubles in a Row

Roger Craig holds the record for single match: $77,000. The ‘skunking’ of Jeopardy! is to at least double the score of 2nd place before entering Final Jeopardy, so you can bet the...

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Q&A with BostonGlobe.com’s Design and Dev Firms

These days, I’m all about the responsive web design. Check out my latest two responsive sites, sparksheet.com and apex.sparksheet.com. Just this week, the Boston Globe‘s fresh redesign was...

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Giving Up the Ghost: Adobe and Big Spaceship present The Expressive Web

Looks like Adobe has opted for web standards, moving away from the applications of Flash. Amazing tech demo happening at The Expressive Web; love the game elements thrown in. Here’s a video...

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Patent Wars Explained on This American Life: When Patents Attack

Just listened to the latest This American Life episode, titled When Patents Attack. The patent wars were funny to me, and I pictured big companies messing with each other on ridiculous claims, like...

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How Leica Lenses are Made

Leica Lenses are so fun to smash....

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Do I Play Video Games Too Much? A Cautionary Tale

Check out Brian Schmoyer’s thoughtful video essay about a man’s life stolen by video games. I am touched by his sentiments about the perils of the life well-wasted, but as a life-long...

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Cute Gamer Girl Does Study: Just How Tough Are NES Games?

Watch as Canadian gamer Riri tries to destroy Super Mario Bros./Duckhunt in a variety of ways. I’d say she got some good data out of it. I remember the NES days and how ridiculously durable...

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Choosing the Stairs over the Escalator

The idea here is to get people to do something by making it fun. You know you have a good idea when you can change people’s normal behaviour and make them feel better at the the same time....

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Did You Know that Technology is Awesome?

This is the fourth iteration of this thing (check out the past versions). It’s still got the impactful balance of music and delivery of statistics, but there’s tons more polish. New media...

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Refreshing Take on the Desktop GUI

I think I’ve just witnessed the death of the mouse. This video points out some of the problems with the current ways we use technology (think Airplane Seatback Screens), and pushes the...

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Paying Tribute to 8-Bit Using Legos

Oh my, an entire video made out of lego bricks *yawn*. Oh wait, this one is actually really, really good. Apparently, it took 1500 hours to make this thing. By mixing in the use of perspective, and...

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The Robots Are Coming: Lightning-Fast Robohands

Robots aren’t always the slow lumbering type. Soon, they’ll be crossing us over and dunking on us. Be sure to see the ridiculous cellphone re-grasping at 2:38. When the robot apocalypse is...

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