From the category archives:
You may recall our report from a couple of months back on “Smuggle Truck,” a video game in which the goal is to get passengers across a “fictional” border. Cute, eh? Well, in order to get approval from Apple for an app, the game developers have changed “Smuggle Truck” to “Snuggle Truck,” substituting happy zoo animals for Read More →
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Notorious blogger Perez Hilton has posted a blog entry entitled “More Outrage Over Lady GaGa’s Judas Video” and attributes the outrage to a “slew of prominent Latino groups from Phoenix.” Hilton goes on to scrawl “calm down” on a photo of Lady Gaga and pontificates that this group should stop attacking a video that no Read More →
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Finally! A post about apps that’s not harping on somebody who’s inadvertently racist! Guerra Maya is an app for Facebook that is essentially Farmville meets SimCity set in ancient Mexico. Players can cultivate aloe and buy/trade pyramids and exotic birds while building up their city. Credit goes to Miami-based social game publisher Mentez for making a delightfully Read More →
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Google has announced that, in partnership with the Cherokee Nation, they’ve added Cherokee—an endangered language—as a Google interface language. This means you can now use Cherokee as your default Google language. In a press release from the Cherokee Nation: “I believe that efforts like those of Google are essential to keeping our language alive,” said Cherokee Read More →
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Picture this: a video game set in the American West and Mexico where outlaws rule and chaos reigns. Nothing too controversial there— video games are all about pandemonium and violence (in Call of Duty: Black Ops, part of the game involves blowing the brains out of zombie Nazis). But make the place more specific, like Read More →
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Well, I guess we should first make clear: we’re not making this up. Some video game designers at Owlchemy Labs have decided to create a game in which the goal is to get passengers across a “fictional” border. The designers say the game is satire: “Inspired by the frustration our friends have experienced in trying Read More →
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Magic Johnson has partnered with gazillionaire Ron Burkle to purchase the company that owns Vibe Magazine, Vibe.com and the Soul Train TV show. According to the Wall Street Journal: The investment comes about a year after Mr. Johnson aborted efforts to acquire Jet and Ebony magazines… A spokeswoman for the investors declined to comment on what Read More →
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Yes, the weekend is over (and yes, you may have a Super Bowl hangover), but the fun doesn’t have to stop. Here are some options to help get you through the Monday (and Tuesday and Wednesday) blues: —Phil Alvin (pictured): One-half of Downey’s famed Alvin Brothers and one-time linchpin of The Blasters, Phil is still Read More →
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The Smithsonian Latino Center doesn’t have a museum you can visit. It’s a research institute that has the challenge of educating communities without a physical space. So, developing the internet platforms and web tools had to be top on its list. “The internet has been the key vehicle for us in really being able to Read More →
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