Platinum Life: Ahead of the Class
by Sherri L. Smith
A social networking game is nothing without its avatars. The visual representative of yourself and your exploits as you go about your tasks on an seemingly never-ending quest to reach the top of the lederboard.
Some social games only feature generic avatars with no real way to differentiate between yours and another players [...]
SXSW 2010: Sound Unbound
by Sherri L. Smith
Sigh, if you’re like me, you were home gnashing your teeth that you weren’t at this year’s SXSW and promising yourself that you’ll make next year. We may not have been able to attend all the awesome panels, parties, and networking, but at least we can live vicariously through video footage. One such panel was [...]
Read MoreT-Mobile’s Rocket Blasts Off
by Sherri L. Smith
In the ongoing race for fast internet speed, the tortoise doesn’t stand a chance, unless of course, it hitches a ride on T-Mobile’s new Rocket. According to Engadget, web heads looking to improve their computer’s mobile broadband speed should run not walk over to T-Mobile. The company’s new webConnect Rocket USB modem went on sale [...]
Read MoreI Am Empowered
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TheGrio’s 100: Mary Spio, reaching beyond the stars
by Sherri L. Smith
“Deep Space Engineer” is no movie role for Mary Spio; it’s the title the Syracuse and Georgia Tech alumna held at Ultra Corp before moving on to PanAmSat Corporation as a Senior Satellite Applications Engineer. A bona fide rocket scientist, Spio began gaining notoriety in her field when she joined Boeing in 2001 as the [...]
Read MoreRussian Ice-skating Team Impersonate Aboriginals and Win
by rahsheen
Russian ice-skating team Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin took the ice in what appeared to be brown tights with white designs painted all over them. The costumes were also decorated with leaves around their wrists and knees, ropes around their waists, and red cloth. The routine and costumes were, according to them, was based on [...]
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