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Major League Baseball just doesn’t get it.  Archaic blackout rules, postseason game times that alienate potential future fans, and an economic system that allows some teams to serve as farm teams for a few big market teams, leave many outsiders scratching their heads.  Add baseball’s latest internet offering, Postseason.TV, to the list of baseball’s facepalm [...]

When you were younger, did you envision a future where we communicated with video consoles, instead of telephones?  I sure did.  Of course, I also thought we’d all be driving flying cars by now, too.  While we’ll all be driving flying cars any day now, video conferencing still has a ways to go before everyone [...]

Remember the good old days, when games were hard? I mean really frustrating, “throw the controller at the television because there are no save points and I just died — again!!” hard? Most people I know have fond memories of Donkey Kong, Zaxxon, Pac-Man, Centipede, Pitfall, and many, many more. As they should, too, given [...]

It is time for another digest of recent content on 40Tech’s Posterous site, where we post content that is too brief for this site, but too long for Twitter.  Since the last digest, our Posterous site has taken a look at the following item:   Reduce Your Blog’s Bounce Rate with YARPP – Yet Another [...]

As tech geeks, we don’t like second best.  When the time comes for a tech purchase, we do our research, so that we can be sure we’re getting the best bang for our buck.  But sometimes it can be hard to determine what product is the best, as reviews don’t always anoint a clear winner. [...]