Trends in popular literature come and go all the time, but ever since George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, people have had a fascination with the walking dead that has only grown as time has gone on. The funny thing is now that so much zombie media has been produced over the years many fans become defensive about what view of zombies are the “best.” Is it the slow, shambling, glassy-eyed zombies of early Romero fame, or the new generation of vicious, sprinting, diseased sort-of-undead horrors common to the …

Google recently announced they are dropping support for Google Wave, the much-hyped, email-killing, instant-messaging-replacing, super awesome communication technology that was going to cure cancer and make us communicate better to boot. It’s not surprising that it’s over. It’s a little sad, because there was potential in Wave, but it’s not surprising.
Everyone on the net is trying to explain why Wave didn’t take off. I can’t speak for everyone (just the trees – you can call me the Lorax), but I can tell you why I tried Wave and didn’t like …

Today I stumbled on a post on Yahoo (via Slashdot) called How Playing Video Games can Boost Your Career. The article is pretty general – it talks about a couple of different video game genres – but it also mentions World of Warcraft.
Now, WoW gets a lot of bad press for being an addictive tinksink, and while that may be true, there are some worthwhile skills there to be learned as long as the game is played with moderation. I don’t play WoW anymore, but I did play the game …