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10 games not recommended for kids

Crave Straight from the No-Brainer Department comes a list of games that parents should not buy their children this holiday season. The New York Times has republished a collection of 10 ... Read story »

Video game ratings board announces iPhone app

Crave A new iPhone app from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board allows parents to see the full ratings summaries of more than 1,500 video games. I love tools that are all ... Read story »

Youth harass and spy on partners with mobile phones

Crave Cell phones and the Internet are great ways for romantic partners to stay in touch, but based on a recent survey of 14- to 24-year-olds, they're also being used to spy ... Read story »

PSG, PNP brutality against students spreading via social networks, blogs

Blogs I just saw this off of JuanCountry.com and then the corresponding photos from the linked Facebook album. From JuanCountry.com Here's a picture of the PSG dragging the UP-CSWCD Student Council Chairperson ... Read story »

Mourning Neda Soltani: Martyrdom in the digital age

Blogs Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other online tools allowed the world to know what was happening inside Iran more quickly than mainstream media. Indeed, many Twitter users started using green avatars to ... Read story »

CNN failed, as seen on Twitter

Blogs This geek has always been quite a CNN junkie, and started to get on Twitter more seriously partly because of CNN's flagrant promotion of Twitter, which I never quite understood. But ... Read story »

Would you give your child a private personal computer?

Blogs When Geekonomics first wrote about how he had helped give a child a computer, my immediate thought was concern. What's wrong with giving the Encyclopedia Brittanica these days? I assume the ... Read story »

Watchmen gets Facebook friends via BD-Live

Features Hollywood movie studio Warner Bros is giving the overhyped Blu-ray advanced interactive feature a shot in the arm in its Watchmen: Director's Cut disc. Read story »

Google China chief quits, reasons unknown

Blogs Google Inc's China chief, Kai-Fu Lee, has resigned with--two days after his departure--no clear reason. The 49-year-old Taiwan-born, US-educated executive had been with Google ever since its official launch in China ... Read story »

Of truthful heritage... and coming of age

Blogs Play: Of opinions According to Nostradamus, or rather flagged around by doomsday carriers around the world, that the earth will come to an apocalyptic climax in, say, 2012. They even managed ... Read story »

Maids and employees--negotiating power

Blogs This video has been making its rounds on the Internet, of a maid doing Kung Fu Panda on a three- to four-year-old girl. (Warning: Not for the squeamish). Check it out ... Read story »

Enough is enough! GTA is not the devil whispering in your ear!

Blogs First of all, let me state that I am in no way affiliated with Rockstar. Nor am I on any direct or indirect payroll from the gaming industry. In fact, by ... Read story »

Katrina Halili-Hayden Kho sex video: Filipino officials, bloggers weigh in on scandal

Blogs As you might expect, the Katrina Halili-Hayden Kho sex video scandal is one of the hottest topics in the Philippine blogosphere. After all, this latest video that has been leaked online ... Read story »

An Unlikely Weapon--a photography documentary

Crave Find the above picture familiar? It was taken by photographer Eddie Adams during the Vietnam War. On the left is General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, and on the right, a Vietcong. ... Read story »

Medieval steel gauntlets: Rule your life with an iron fist

Crave I cannot come up with a practical reason why I'd need these reproduction medieval gauntlets. I just want them. Think of all the people I could be! These are the ... Read story »

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