Links for May 16th 2008
May 16th, 2008 | by Tama |Interesting links for May 15th 2008 through May 16th 2008:
- From Atari Joyboard to Wii Fit: 25 years of “exergaming” [Boing Boing Gadgets] - A fascinating look at the ancestors of the Nintendo WIi Fit system, from excercise bike/game hybrids to Dance, Dance Revolution.
- US ‘cyber-bully’ mother indicted [BBC NEWS] - “A Missouri woman who allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to bully a girl who later committed suicide has been indicted by a federal Grand Jury. Lori Drew, 49, allegedly posed as a boy on the website to befriend Megan Meier, 13…”
- Google fuzzes out faces in privacy push [SMH] - “Google has rolled out a new technology which automatically blurs any human face appearing in street-level photographs taken for use in its mapping services by its fleet of camera-mounted vehicles.”
- Dr Who fan in knitted puppet row [BBC NEWS | Entertainment] - “A Doctor Who fan is embroiled in a row with the BBC after she published knitting patterns for the sci-fi drama’s monsters on the internet.” (Sicking the lawyers on fans? Never a popular plan. Dare I make the pun: it’s Ooderous!)
Tags:BBC, cyberbullying, digitalculture, doctorwho, embodiment, ethics, games, googlemaps, ip, myspace, privacy, socialnetworking, wii, wiifit
