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| 10 hot new iPhone games for everyone Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:54:17 EST Reports from this week's Game Developers Conference make one thing clear: Games on mobile phones are not just a niche category anymore. Here are 10 hot games for the iPhone and iPod Touch. |
| Opinion: Why Assassin's Creed 2 is no fun Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:37:45 EST Let's imagine this terrifying scenario for a moment. You come home from a long day of work and sit in front of your computer to try out your newly purchased copy of the video game Assassin's Creed 2, and then ... nothing happens. You face an immobile title screen. You check to make sure everything's plugged in -- yup, sure is -- and simply cannot figure out what's going on. "Why doesn't this game work? It cost me $60!" |
| Sony unveils Move, its PS3 motion controller Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:44:50 EST On Wednesday, Sony unveiled Move, its motion-sensitive controller. |
| Telecom king unseats Bill Gates atop richest list Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:43:57 EST Forbes magazine released its annual list of the world's richest people Wednesday, and for only the second time since 1995, Microsoft founder Bill Gates' name was not at the top. |
| Pentagon trains workers to hack Defense computers Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:27:39 EST The Pentagon is training people to hack into its own computer networks. |
| AT&T tries to avoid outages at SXSW conference Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:56:41 EST On Friday, the major movers in the tech industry will gather in Austin, Texas, for the annual South by Southwest Interactive Conference. |
| Google adds bike routes to online maps Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:10:14 EST Peter Smith was riding his bike down a particularly busy road in Austin, Texas, when, amid a frightening blur of big-truck traffic, a thought hit him: |
| Anti-candidate Web site asks public for dirt Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:19:54 EST Democrats opposed to Meg Whitman's gubernatorial campaign are hoping to get an assist from the public in their latest bid to push voters away from the Republican candidate. |
| iPhone games break out Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:22:40 EST This week's Game Developers Conference reinforces the iPhone's status as a top gaming platform. For the first time, the GDC advisory board is devoting an entire summit to Apple's smartphone. |
| Environmentalist: It's becoming a plastic world Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:35:26 EST Every bit of fully synthetic plastic that's ever been produced over the past 100 years is somewhere on our planet, a leading environmentalist, David de Rothschild, said Tuesday. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 11, 2010 is:
will-o'-the-wisp • \will-uh-thuh-WISP\ • noun
1 : a light that appears at night over marshy ground *2 : a misleading or elusive goal or hope
Example sentence:
Though her friends think she's chasing a will-o'-the-wisp, Alexis is determined to quit her job and follow her dream of becoming a pop music star.
Did you know?
The will-o'-the-wisp is a flame-like phosphorescence caused by gases from decaying plants in marshy areas. In olden days, it was personified as "Will with the wisp," a sprite who carried a fleeting "wisp" of light. Foolish travelers were said to try to follow the light and were then led astray into the marsh. (An 18th-century fairy tale described Will as one "who bears the wispy fire to trail the swains among the mire.") The light was first known, and still also is, as "Ignis Fatuus," which in Latin means "foolish fire." Eventually, the name "will-o'-the-wisp" was extended to any impractical or unattainable goal.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.