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I agree with the core point. I can’t help but think back on the article written about the woman who got two guys kicked out of the developer conference for “making a dick joke”. A Verge “rise up” article popped up, taking a very hasty, one-sided point of view on the event and tried to use it to prop up a grandiose “let’s fix society” agenda. Only it was a very complicated story with many sides that were not touched on at all.

This seems similar. The point isn’t whether Snowden is definitely altruistic or definitely attention-seeking. The point is that either is possible — we’re so early in the story and there are so many shades of gray that it’s impossible to portray him as anything close to a hero or traitor yet. And yet for those who are irrevocably convinced the U.S. Government is a useless entity just this side of pure evil, you are already seeing him portrayed as the poster boy for fighting “the man”.

4 days ago on Standing with Snowden: the nerdy past and uncertain future of a whistleblowing icon

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Ugh, no Mario Kart until next year? This long-time Nintendo fan is ready to check out. I’m fine with the specs and trying the tablet as a gaming innovation. But they just failed to plan what the game lineup would look like in the first year. It’s a wasteland.

4 days ago on Can Mario save the Wii U?

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Just saw it and I’m befuddled at the positivity surrounding it. It’s an utter failure of story-telling. All the fun scenes we should have of Superman doing Superman things and other marveling at it are ditched in favor of hasty flashbacks and hitting us over the head with inner conflict. And it goes straight from that to extended action scenes that are well-produced but unbelievably boring. Punch each other all over the place and smash a whole lot of stuff.

Of course it’s just my opinion, but man, not my kind of Superhero movie. I’ll take Donner’s in landslide, corny as it is.

4 days ago on 'Man of Steel' review: finally, the Superman we deserve

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Wow, I either missed that one or gave up before I got to it. This is the sentence I fell asleep during and hit my face on the keyboard. Why are movie reviewers always so in love with their own sentences?

Though the director’s slow-motion deconstructionism and his fetishization of ideal physical forms are gone Snyder’s staging remains impeccable, enabling Superman’s coming-of-age to unfold on the largest possible canvas while also retaining substantial emotional weight.

4 days ago on 'Man of Steel' review: finally, the Superman we deserve

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Most obscure test yet of the Betteridge Law of Headlines.

5 days ago on Semen solution: can a sperm bank save bees from oncoming extinction? 1 reply

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Been loving this guy’s work since Black Rain and Rain Man.

7 days ago on Composer Hans Zimmer: 'music is not the ugly stepsister of cinematography anymore'

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The idiocratization of human contact continues.

7 days ago on Facebook rolling out hashtag support starting today

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They seem stuck. (3)DS still does well — it seems there’s still a market for Nintendo hardware and software in a mobile gaming device. But as for home console, it seems the end is nearing. Maybe its not mobile apps they should consider if that overlaps with hardware they still sell. But could they consider exiting home console and releasing Mario and Link for XBox and Playstation? It’s a bitter pill to swallow and I never see it happening. But it seems to fit better in the market for them.

7 days ago on A link to the past: why Nintendo won't make games for smartphones

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He’s saying the opposite of that, isn’t he??

7 days ago on A link to the past: why Nintendo won't make games for smartphones

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That’s near the top of the list of most offensive things about this. The answer is probably that they can’t vote for him. But as an American, it’s supremely insulting to expect me to be happy the U.S. is violating the privacy of fellow human beings, only if they don’t live here.

12 days ago on President Obama on NSA spying: Congress has known about it and approved for years 1 recommend

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They should also mine user interface information from these companies while they’re at it — those slides are god-awful.

12 days ago on Secret program gives NSA, FBI backdoor access to Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft data

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That doesn’t work. We don’t know it’s an unfair headline until we click it and read it. And the inventor of the bait headline rests happily in his grave.

18 days ago on Microsoft defends the look of the Xbox One

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sigh

I’ll have to throw my name on the pile here too, it’s disappointing. Just need to change the word “defend” to “explain”. One small difference reveals the very real possibility of journalistic bias. Where in any bit of this source story is the idea MS is being defensive??

20 days ago on Microsoft defends the look of the Xbox One 21 recommends

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Seems like Aereo is the Napster of broadcast TV. Wonder who will be the iTunes. Probably iTunes.

21 days ago on ABC Television president Anne Sweeney calls Aereo 'opportunistic piracy' 1 reply 1 recommend

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“Because we cant’ do it, research says customers don’t want it.” He’s gone Reggie on us.

28 days ago on Microsoft's Xbox head: 'If you’re backwards compatible, you’re really backwards'