Site of the week: With our Play section becoming a smaller, inside portion of a new Life/Styles section on Tuesdays starting next week, our best-of- the-Web picks will take a hiatus. One place to keep up is buzz machine.com, a sharply opinionated blog about technology and the mass media by Jeff Jarvis, a media consultant and teacher at City University of New York. Jarvis’ writing has a real bite, and he offers full disclosures of all his potential conflicts of interest for anyone who wants to challenge his views.
Watch this Web video: And for the final video recommendation in Play, we bring you the simplest of pastimes: watching a laughing baby.
The “hahaha” video clip of the Swedish baby has been viewed nearly 16 million times, at youtube.com/watch ?v=5P6UU6m3cqk.
Even on YouTube, it’s back to the basics.
-Michael Booth
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PODCAST!
Lyrics Undercover:
Coverville Media’s Brian Ibbott hosts this weekly look at
the stories behind popular songs. This week: “Space
Oddity” by David Bowie.
denverpost.com/podcasts
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THIS WEEK’S NEW VIDEO GAMES
Forza Motorsport 2 (XBox 360)
Microsoft Game Studios
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Wii) Midway Games
Mario Party 8 (Wii) Nintendo
Shadowrun (XBox 360) Microsoft
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary (PS2) Eidos Interactive
Major League Baseball 2K7 (GBA) 2K Sports
Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia (XBox 360) SouthPeak Interactive
Atelier Iris 3: Grand Fantasm (PS2) Nippon Ichi Software
Surf’s Up (PS3, Wii) Ubisoft
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