Microsoft’s ‘I’m a PC’ campaign created with Macs

AppleInsider | Microsoft’s ‘I’m a PC’ campaign created with Macs

Metadata found on Microsoft’s creative copy used in its ‘I’m a PC’ ad reveals that the graphics were actually produced using Macs running Adobe Creative Suite 3. After the details were published on the Flickr photo sharing site, Microsoft scrambled to polish off the embarrassing details last night

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I’m not shocked. I assume they use macs for all their creative work.

gov.sarah@brutishlout.com

Palin e-mail hack details emerge talks about how Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account was hacked. This is interesting… can you trust someone to run a country who uses Yahoo (gov.palin@yahoo.com and gov.sarah@yahoo.com)? I feel bad for her as a person, that her email was hacked. I don’t wish that sort of thing on anyone (for the record and I mean it). What I’m talking about is professionalism. Yahoo? Remember that this means a brutish lout, a philistine, yokel. Why would anyone in their right mind want an email address gov.sarah@brutishlout.com? It flies in the face of reason. Of course this is happening around discussions as to whether she used personal email accounts for state business, and these accounts are ex officio official cause they claim that they are gov.palin and gov.sarah, right? So someone’s really perplexing me here. Is it possible in this day and age for someone in a position of power to not at least have some hangers-on with the wherewithal to say “Yo. You really think we should be using a commercial email site, and then to have hackable password recovery?” even before they muse as to whether they should be doing government business on a commercial web site (which may or may not have happened). See the time magazine article on wikileaks, if you want to get some more intel and info.

It is unfortunate when someone’s privacy is compromised. It is scary that politicians can be not just irresponsible, but so creatively foolish on so many levels.

New Study Shatters Stereotypes About Teens and Video Games | HASTAC

New Study Shatters Stereotypes About Teens and Video Games | HASTAC

(Washington, DC) — The first national survey of its kind finds that virtually all American teens play computer, console, or cell phone games and that the gaming experience is rich and varied, with a significant amount of social interaction and potential for civic engagement. The survey was conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a project of the Pew Research Center, and was supported by the MacArthur Foundation.

The primary findings in the survey of 1,102 youth ages 12-17 include:
Game playing is universal, with almost all teens playing games and at least half playing games on a given day.

97% of American teens ages 12-17 play some kind of video game.
99% of boys say they are gamers and 94% of girls report that they play games.

Game playing experiences are diverse, with the most popular games falling into the racing, puzzle, sports, action and adventure categories.

A typical teen plays at least five different categories of games and 40% of them play eight or more different game types. While some teens play violent video games, those who play violent games generally also play non-violent games. Game playing is social, with most teens playing games with others at least some of the time.

76% of gaming teens play games with others at least some of the time.
82% play games alone at least occasionally, though 71% of this group also plays games with others.
65% of gaming teens play with others in the same room.

This is more of what I blogged last week. It is muchly interesting…

How professors use their time.

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A bio pict and new article

I just finished “Hacking Say and Reviving ELIZA: Lessons from Virtual Environments” that I’ve been mucking about with all summer. It was accepted for Innovate pending revisions. Rochelle and I worked on it last fall and winter, and I took over the edits more recently (and I was pretty recalcitrant for a number of unfolding reasons). But it is done, and I’m happy with it, and I’ll post a link to it when it comes out.

I needed, however, a bio and picture. And not having anything as nice as Rochelle’s I had to make something up… so I found this one from AoIR last year. Aleja thinks it looks angelic.

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just made up 5 jars of pesto from basil I got from masako's garden last night when we were over for BBQ. rawk.