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There's a scene in the video game 24, based on the popular television show, in which the player takes on the role of government agent Jack Bauer and tortures a terrorist. To extract a set of codes, Bauer shoots the man in the gut, slams his head on the table, refuses to call a doctor, and places his pistol against his victim's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Video Games Save the World? | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...though Skype is the only one of all the cool gadgets that cartoons promised me would exist by 2010, people don't seem nearly as excited as they should be. Only 34% of Skype calls even use video. And when Skype announced on Jan. 5 at the Consumer Electronics Show that we'll soon have videophones on our televisions, everyone went right back to talking about which booths gave out the best key-chain lights. (Get the latest tech news at Techland.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call Me! But Not on Skype or Any Other Videophone | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...Skype requires me to look at you while you're talking, which is totally ridiculous. The only sci-fi show that understood this was Star Trek. Bones and Jim would use their flip phones to talk quickly about beaming or health issues. The only time they'd fire up the videophone was when a Klingon was sitting in a spaceship 20 yards away with guns pointed at them. Even then I think Sulu was checking out Go Fug Yourself. (See the top 10 gadgets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call Me! But Not on Skype or Any Other Videophone | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Revealing the hidden feminism of MTV's widely criticized reality show Jersey Shore on the Daily Beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...show is actually undoing age-old stereotypes and replacing them, for better or worse, with a progressive, and even revolutionary, model of prima donna that is more Lady Gaga than Victoria Gotti ... The trash-talking, overly tanned ladies of Jersey Shore pick fistfights, refuse to cook or clean up and shuffle around in slippers and sweats while the guys in the house preen and put on lip gloss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

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