Well...another one bites the dust... Wikispaces this past week notified users of their Free wikis that the platform is going away this summer (apparently private label wiki admins got this notification earlier). It seems that one by one pioneers of the Web 2.0/social media revolution are closing their doors and moving on. I remember the excitement that was afoot when we could create our own wikis

The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years by Edward Gross My rating: 4 of 5 stars An interesting look at the genesis of Star Trek, from before there was even Star Trek, through The Animated Series, through a few aborted concepts, to Star Trek VI. Told through the words of the people involved in the series, so there

I guess this is a take it, or leave it, type of humor.  Saw this posted on facebook by one of my acquaintances who is a (medical) doctor.  Hope I never have to go through the pain of stones :-)

Well...I guess that's the end of that!  Miitomo has announced in via their app that Miitomo will go offline and never come back in May. For the past couple of years this quirky social network has kept us company. The idea behind it was that people would customize a Mii (which Nintendo has also slowly walked away from in their newest console, the Switch) and through those Miis you could interact

This punchline never really made much sense to me.  Something about baldness? :-/ (original archive here)

Περιμένουν το λεωφορείο Σήμερα το πρωί εν πορεία για το γραφείο ένα τραίνο (που μάλλον ήταν το τραίνο μπροστά από το δικό μου) έφυγε από τις γραμμές του - ευτυχώς ήταν στο μετρό οπότε δεν υπήρχαν τραυματισμοί - αλλά έκανε

Found earlier this week.  It an interesting commentary on a common trope of video game stories - accused of a violent crime, didn't do it, be violent to clear you name.

Σήμερα έχουμε αργία Καθαρά Δευτέρα στην Ελλάδα, President’s Day στην Αμερική. Θα έπρεπε κανονικά να χρησιμοποιώ τον έξτρα ελεύθερο χρόνο για να κάνω καμία δουλειά στην διδακτορική διατριβή μου αλλά βαριέμαι. Πριν κανα δύο εβδομάδες

A little humor found earlier today on Kotaku Sunday comics - a funny mashup between Thudercats and Stranger Things

Στο λύκειο στην Αμερική υπάρχουν αρκετές εξωσχολικές δραστηριότητες, Όπως είχα γράψει και τον περασμένο μήνα. Στον τελικό χρόνο του λυκείου υπάρχουν μερικές ειδικές δραστηρίοτητες όπως το yearbook και η θεατρική παράσταση