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Sunday, January 2, 2011

who came up with computer symbols?

"Apple's Command Symbol
While working with other team members to translate menu commands directly to the keyboard, Hertzfeld and his team decided to add a special function key. The idea was simple: When pressed in combination with other keys, this "Apple key" would select the corresponding menu command. Jobs hated it-or more precisely the symbol used to represent the button-which was yet another picture of the Apple logo. Hertzfeld recalls his reaction: "There are too many Apples on the screen! It's ridiculous! We're taking the Apple logo in vain!" A hasty redesign followed, in which bitmap artist Susan Kare poured through in international symbol dictionary and settled on one floral symbol that in Sweden, indicated a noteworthy attraction in a campground. Alternately known as the Gorgon loop, the splat, the infinite loop, and, in the Unicode standard, a "place of interest sign," the command symbol has remained a mainstay on Apple keyboards to this day."
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banksy says...

Sunday, December 19, 2010

interactive porn reaches kinect

It took them more than a month, but the adult gaming industry has managed to crack Kinect and use it for interactive porn. Sex simulation gaming company ThriXXX has released a demo showing how the motion-controlled gadget for Microsoft's XBox gaming system can be used for porn pleasure, ABC News reports. ThriXXX says its demo shows there's plenty of kinky possibilities with Kinect, although it doesn't have permission from Microsoft to create games, and its demo was created with help from hackers.

from newser.com...
"The Kinect is obviously a natural technology for this kind of usage, since the 'hands-free' approach means that the user's hands are available for other actions, be it manipulating the game, or themselves-—or, in this case, possibly both at the same tiime," a sex tech expert tells CNET. Microsoft, however, says the XBox is a family-friendly console and it plans to keep it that way. Click to watch a demo and hear one writer's take on why interactive porn can be pretty unsexy."