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POPSI Need a Kiss! So does Pink Panther! Yay! <insert thumbs-up smiley here> *LOL* Please, Clipguys? Could you please consider this tiny 'emotional' upgrade request? <insert hands-clapping smiley here>
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POPSThumb novels: Mobile phone fiction more (at source): Astronomically popular, "thumb novels" are much decried as trash for yahori ("slow learners"). But over the past few years this trashy subculture has stormed Japanese commercial book publishing. In 2007 – keitai shosetsu's annus mirabilis – half of the top 10 fiction bestsellers in the shrinking Japanese book market originated on cellphones. Last autumn, a literary grandee joined in. Jakucho Setouchi, the Marguerite Duras of Japan, revealed herself as "Purple", the author of a keitai shosetsu about a teen's search for love entitled Tomorrow's Rainbow. Setouchi is also a celebrated 86-year-old Buddhist nun who wrote a contemporary update of The Tales of Genji, Japan's racy classic.
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POPSAmaze your friends with these tricks!
Rockstar Games suffered from arguably the most controversial Easter egg in history, even though it was an accident. Instead of removing the Hot Coffee mini-game from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas entirely, Rockstar merely cut it off from the rest of the game – leaving the assets on the disc. It proved a simple matter for hackers to get their hands on the mini-game, and the more explicit sexual content caused Rockstar a lot of problems. Despite showing nothing more than fully clothed bumping and grinding between consenting adults, the whole game had to be withdrawn and reclassified. The end result was millions of dollars of revenue lost and several class action lawsuits. Rockstar cheekily renamed the more moderate romance achievement in GTA IV after the incident; a polite cut-away to a building roof now throws up the message 'Achievement Unlocked: Warm Coffee'. Another classic example is the game SimCopter, which was released in 1996. One of the programmers, Jacques Servin, added an
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POPSAre you a digital native or digital immigrant? Does spending too much time using technology alter the way the brain works? Some scientists believe it does while others don't. I don't know about altering the way the brain processes data, but I believe new data, whether learned via technology or not, causes you to alter your outlook somewhat. Learning through the spoken word, a book or a webpage doesn't matter as long as you use the info in a positive way.
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POPSDA's emoticons Hell, there's a lot of emoticons on Deviant Art, really. I think there's like 200 and I found ninja turtles' heads !! XD Anyway, I copied some that I like. XP
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POPSThe Development That Made the Whole Web :) ... "The Digital Smiley Face Turns 25 Dan's The Wrong Advices Blog (www.thewrongadvices.com) posted this story. Constantly bombarded with flashing smiley face banner ads, I shutter at the mention of emoticons. However, this is a charming story about the first digital smiley face and I enjoyed Dan's statement, "Love them or hate them, emoticons do proved a quick and easy way to show emotion in an otherwise detached medium." You can find another interesting story on emoticons at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/fashion/29emoticon.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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