Posted by: Karl Bunyan on: May 11, 2011
What if McDonald’s ran Settlers of Catan promotions instead of Monopoly?… College Humor attempts to find out in this video: Settlers of Catan: McDonald’s Edition.
Posted by: Karl Bunyan on: October 17, 2010
Sky News decided to opt for the “high score” metaphor when showing how well the rescue of the Chilean miners was going. They could possibly have gone for the progress bar, since there were only a finite number of miners to rescue, but the counter works well enough. However, it really should have been a [...]
Posted by: Karl Bunyan on: September 29, 2010
“Imagine software that mixes work and play… where every message is a jumbo jet.” That’s the promise of 3D Mailbox. It’s been around for a while but somehow bridges the divide between ridiculous and genius, or at least it does for me. (And no, I don’t use it: Gmail’s does me just fine.)
Posted by: Karl Bunyan on: September 17, 2010
It used to be solitaire or minesweeper, nowadays it’s Facebook games, but mahjong would do just as well.
Posted by: Peter on: August 16, 2010
Going to have to try this one out: You’re likely aware of Foursquare, the location-based service that turns checking-in to venues into a game of sorts. You may also be aware ofStickyBits, an app that turns barcodes intomessage boards. What do you get when you combine them? Barcode Hero, a new product byKima Labs, [...]
Posted by: Karl Bunyan on: August 13, 2010
This is a fun idea: turn your drive into a Star Wars death star attack. The X-wing targeting computer lets you know when you’re ready to destroy your target (or rather, when you’ve reached your destination): Unfortunately the Android app doesn’t seem to be out yet, but I’m going to keep looking. <ob ject width=”400″ [...]
Posted by: Peter on: July 20, 2010
From Techcrunch… Looks pretty interesting, but not real shopping play.
Posted by: Karl Bunyan on: July 9, 2010
Commuters stuck in traffic when a motorway was closed near Manchester decided to use the empty carriageway as a makeshift football pitch: More details here.
Posted by: Karl Bunyan on: July 7, 2010
I was looking for an image of Settlers of Catan, and found this image of the board made out of cakes:
Posted by: Karl Bunyan on: July 1, 2010
The blog post by Woot about their acquisition by Amazon, which contains a letter from the CEO to all employees, is pretty good. But the monkey rapping video about the acquisition it is even better:
