Israeli startup Zlango is taking a different approach to mobile messaging and emoticons. Rather than using words that often are absolutely meaningless and incomprehensible to people unfamiliar with the orthographic conventions of texting (e.g. “idk”, “myob”), they have created an icon-based language that would theoretically be comprehensible to anyone. So here’s an experiment. Without looking [...]
Archive for 27 September 2007
Halo 3 prank
Posted: 27 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: games, gaming, halo, harvard, humor, mit, pranks, statues
(Credit: Tungsten Chew/The Tech) Some MIT students have tricked out the statue of John Harvard (aka the Statue of Three Lies) to look like Master Chief from Halo 3. Apparently, this statue is the target of many pranks. Go geeks! Read more about it here. Here’s the before shot:
Shoot first, ask questions later
Posted: 27 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: blackwater usa, endless war, iraq, iraq war, kucinich, politics, psychological damage, security, war
This appears to be the policy of Blackwater USA, a security contracting firm providing services in Iraq to the State Department. The New York Times reported yesterday that the firm is under investigation in both Iraq and in Washington for a shooting on September 16th in which at least 11 Iraqis were killed. State department [...]
