Wii Fit parody
Even though I think Wii Fit is a cool idea and look forward to trying it out, I still appreciate the humor in this parody video from Sarcastic Gamer.
Wii Fit gets gamers off their butt
I’m looking forward to Wii Fit, although it’s something I’m more likely to use in the winter rather than the summer, when the weather is nice enough that I can actually get some exercise outdoors. I lost 25-30 pounds last year on another physical video game, Dance Dance Revolution, but eventually got bored with it and gained most of that weight back. Hopefully, if enough physical video games come out that make exercising fun, lazy gamers like myself will be able to lose a few pounds while still supporting our gaming addiction.
The Wii is even spawning websites like Wii Healthy, which are focused solely on the physical fitness applications of the gaming system. If you’re interested in learning more about the upcoming Wii Fit, check out Game Pro.
Affordable custom poster frames do exist
I collect movie posters, lithographs, and art prints related to comic books and popular science fiction shows. The most expensive part of this hobby isn’t the posters and prints themselves but the custom frames needed for the odd sizes of many of these posters. If you go to a framing shop and ask for a 27×40.5 aluminum frame with UV coated plexiglass and acid-free backing, you’ll probably be quoted something in the neighborhood of $200. Like many such expenses, however, there are cheaper alternatives to be found on the web.
Wordpress 2.5 image upload issue
Like tens of thousands of other blogs on the web, this site is run on the Wordpress blogging platform. Today I upgraded to Wordpress 2.5, which seemed to work great, as I use Firefox. It turns out, however, that others who I installed Wordpress for are having issues with uploading images using Internet Explorer 7. I Googled this issue and found that it’s not an isolated problem. Hopefully, it’s an issue that will be fixed in the next few days, as we seem to get Wordpress security updates on a regular basis and they can roll it into one of those. Here’s a link to a fix for this issue until then. The best fix, however, would be to simply switch to using Firefox instead of IE. At the very least, you should have both browsers installed on your machine.
Here’s a video that gives a quick overview of the new features in Wordpress 2.5 for those who are interested:
Another minor problem I’ve encountered so far is that it’s easy to accidentally post a page instead of a blog post. For some reason when I clicked on “Write” to create this post, it defaulted to creating a new page instead.
MyGame.com
Have you ever wanted to create your own time-wasting flash game like the ones you see plastered all over the web? Well, now, even if you don’t have any programming skills, you can upload a few photos and create your own mini-game in minutes. Then you can e-mail that game to friends or embed it on your Myspace page or other website. Here’s a sample game I created when I tested out the site:
I Has a Hot Dog
From the minds behind I Can Haz Cheezburger? comes I Has a Hot Dog, a site dedicated to silly picture of dogs. This is a time wasting site if ever there was one. Subscribe to their daily photo e-mail list if you need a morning pick-me-up every day like I do.
New York cab of the future?
Mar. 20 – Ford unveils a taxi cab concept that’s short but tall, offering lots of storage space.
The cab is 30 percent more fuel efficient than current cabs.
Fred Katayama reports from the New York International Auto Show.
Robo-chop
Mar. 25 – Fighting robots battle for supremacy in the latest of Japan’s Robo-One Championships.
More than 100 humanoid robots were entered for the two-day contest which, at the end, saw less than half still standing and divided between heavyweights and featherweights.
myYearbook
Social networking is all the rage these days and one of the latest and greatest sites on the national scene is myYearbook.com, which is sort of a combination of the viral widgets of Facebook and style and features of Myspace. The network already has over five million members and is growing rapidly.
On their “Our Story” page, they claim the site was created by a couple high school kids, which I find hard to believe, considering the venture capital funding and national advertising contracts the site had already attained at its inception.No, this was a website created by corporate America with the sole purpose of APPEARING to be a hip site created by and for kids. Their claims are about as believable as boy bands writing their own songs.
Despite this, they are situated nicely to become the new cool hangout now that even parents and grandparents are hanging out on Myspace by the tens of thousands. After all, once everyone knows about a site like Myspace, it’s no longer cool, so the in-crowd has to find somewhere else to hang out. Whether or not myYearbook is that new destination has yet to be determined.
Dinosaur wows the techies at CeBIT
Mar. 5 – Pleo the robotic dinosaur proves to be a star attraction at the CeBIT annual computer expo in Germany.
Pleo was designed by its creators, the Californian company Ugobe, to emulate the appearance and behaviour of a week-old infant Camerasaurus.
It’s being marketed as a household pet.
Helen Long reports.
