Other Watchmen Games Even Less Appropriate Than Heroclix – ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

This is rad. While we admit that the logo they came up with is actually pretty brilliant, we here at ComicsAlliance were pretty shocked by last week’s announcement that “Watchmen,” Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’; deeply cerebral work about the nature of super-heroics in “real-world” situations, would now be represented as tiny plastic HeroClix figures.Continue reading “Other Watchmen Games Even Less Appropriate Than Heroclix – ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews”

Sagem Orga outs SIMFi, a SIM card/WiFi router hybrid

Sagem’s SIMFi is one of those ideas that you wish you had come up with yourself. The concept is pretty straightforward: they’ve created a SIM card with an embedded WiFi radio, so provided you have a suitable data plan, the card itself puts out a WiFi signal instead of relying on the phone. For anyoneContinue reading “Sagem Orga outs SIMFi, a SIM card/WiFi router hybrid”

Wall St. Helped Greece to Mask Debt Fueling Europe’s Crisis – NYTimes.com

This morning I awoke to see this story on the front page of the New York Times. Basically, this is all due to Greece’s desire to gain inclusion into the EU. Membership requires achieving certain macroeconomic targets like budget deficits, rate of inflation, social welfare spending. They are basically the same kinds of economic targetsContinue reading “Wall St. Helped Greece to Mask Debt Fueling Europe’s Crisis – NYTimes.com”