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The Nintendo store in Rockefeller Center has some Wiis set up for people to try out. They’re all running the sports disk, which has several different games on it - I saw golf, and I think baseball, and tennis, which is what I played a game of.

Oh, this is so cool! The Wii controller, as some of you may not have yet heard, is cordless, and shaped ( Read more... )

Seen on Broadway and 20-something Street, a few weeks ago:


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Y’know how the writers at The Onion sometimes seem to be just going through the motions? And sometimes the headline is funny, but the article itself isn’t worth reading? Well, the latest issue has one of those pieces that’s great all the way through: “Five Years Later: NYC Unveils 9/11 Memorial Hole”:
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My name is sticky. It sticks in people’s heads, and they come up to me at conventions and stuff and say “Oh, yeah, you’re Avram Grumer” when I have no idea of who they are, so I’m at a permanent social disadvantage.

How sticky is my name? Yesterday I went to Midtown Comics for Scott McCloud’s signing of his new book, Making Comics. Now, I’d never ( Read more... )

I know some of you know this, but it may be news to most: Scott McCloud has a new books out, Making Comics, and he and his family are promoting it with a 50-state tour, starting in NYC. He gave a Q&A session at SVA today, which I opted not to go to. (See mccloudtour for updates about the tour.)

Tomorrow (Friday) he’ll be signing at Midtown Comics just south ( Read more... )

It’s happening faster than I’d thought:


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So, if I went and saw An Inconvenient Truth, but I left my air conditioner running while I was out, is that a net gain or loss for the environment ( Read more... )

I’ve got links about all of them in my Del.icio.us account:

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  Stephen Kilnisan, jeweler and techie, is also the unofficial historian of New York’s diamond district, the stretch of 47th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues through which most of the diamonds sold in the US first pass:
  
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