Shearing Electric Sheep

June 16th, 2009Blog0 comments

My technology News Roundup:

- A lady is simulating homelessness in The Sims 3. The result: Cranky, starving people who still surprise you in amusing and heartbreaking ways.

Seriously, this is a very readable blog about fictional electronic people.

- Twitter was asked by the US State Department to postpone its scheduled maintenance shutdown to aid the Iranian resistance movement. Twitter complied. The revolution will be Twittervised???

I use Twitter on and off and thought it was kind of interesting. I am seriously impressed by this news. I would definitely use Twitter more if I had more important things to transmit — things such as “DOODZ R STEALING MY ELECTION!!1!”

- Video game site Kotaku reports that GameLoft CEO Yves Guillemot thinks that Apple should make a gaming console. The thing is, they already have. It’s called the iPhone/iPod Touch.

I’ve been playing Star Defense on mine. It’s a very clever Tower Defense style game that plays on rotating 3D spheres. You craft assembly lines of destruction using your tower-placing geometric skills. Three thumbs up.

- iPhone 3.0 comes out tomorrow: Your Mike Golamco has been using 3.0 for the last week (installed the GM from the developers’ kit). My favorite additions are the Spotlight searches and the horizontal keyboard. The h. keyboard itself has made it so easy to type that I am now texting as much as a teenage girl. It’s so much easier now to type “JoBros 4 eva!”