Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Holy Moly—Scrabble is Getting Scrabbled

Holy Moly—Scrabble is Getting Scrabbled
Listen Up! Before You Buy The iPad- 20 Biggest Complaints
iPad Jailbroken Within 24 Hours of Release
Um, Wow. Best Wedding Cake Ever

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 02:30 PM PDT

If you've checked out my SCRABBLE World, you may have read "How Controversy Changed SCRABBLE". In that case, you know that the word JEW is not allowed in regular play, because it was deemed an offensive and obscene word.

JEW v JEWED, JEWING, JEWS to bargain with—an offensive term

But this coming July, it will no longer be banned from SCRABBLE play, because Mattel is changing the way we play SCR ...more

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Listen Up! Before You Buy The iPad- 20 Biggest Complaints

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 10:30 AM PDT

Before you go running off to the Apple store, you may want to educate yourself. DVICE is kind enough to compile the 20 biggest complaints about the iPad from a whole slew of reviewers.

1. Upscaling makes old iPhone/iPod Touch apps ugly.

"Here's the problem: It looks terrible… What we're left with is a feature [to use old apps] that I — and I suspect most people — will use one or twice, and never ...more

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iPad Jailbroken Within 24 Hours of Release

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 08:30 AM PDT

Congrats to MuscleNerd, the first to jailbreak the almighty iPad.

Via DVICE:

"The iPad has only been out since Saturday and already a member of the cheekily-named iPhone Dev Team (who have nothing to do with the iPhone's development, par se, and everything to do with making jailbreaking as easy as pie) is claiming to have jailbroken the iPad.

Said member goes by the name of 'MuscleNerd', and ap ...more

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Um, Wow. Best Wedding Cake Ever

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 07:45 AM PDT

Here's somethin' too-good-for-words, via CAKES! CAKES! CAKES!, my WonderHowTo World (P.S. you can start your own world or join others - learn more here).