Photo: ZooBorns
It’s a holiday Friday, we’ve spent the day covering spam and legal fights, and now we need a dose of happy. Hence: It’s ZooBorns Click Time at the CNNMoney Tech cubicle pod.
TGIF, and may your weekend be filled with fluffy baby penguins and grinning river otters. -Stacy
As a peace offering for RIM, we found and are featuring a big fan of the Blackberry PlayBook: Meet Mojo, who seems quite entranced by a fishcam app. I showed my cats a fishcam app on the iPad; they were utterly unimpressed. PlayBook wins this battle. -Stacy
This week definitely needs a kitten chaser, so we offer up hacker cat. We’re pretty sure she’s not hacking Sony’s site, which makes her the only sentient being on Earth who isn’t.
For this week’s Friday kitties we have the BEST WEBSITE EVER, brought to our attention by Belinda: KittehRoulette. Through it we discovered YouTube star Maru, who has taken on an envelope, an enemy wine box, and a crinkly bit of paper, among other foes. Instead of finishing story edits, I’m gonna sit here mindlessly clicking “Next Kitteh!”
UPDATE: Our far more serious-minded colleague Charles (but we will vouch for his amusingly sardonic streak — check out “Big Bird on the chopping block”) pointed out New York Times Roulette. It just gave us The Ethicist. Bzzt! Back to the kittehs! -Stacy
It’s rainy and icky outside in NYC, so everyone on Team Tech is planning to hide indoors tonight and recover from a marathon week. I’m off to hunt down some pho soup, curl up with Season 2 of “The Wire,” and, for entertainment, mess with my kitties’ minds. This video Julianne spotted gives me some excellent ideas. -Stacy
Well, it’s been a week packed with piles and piles of tech news: Apple declared war on the media industry, Twitter declared war on a rival, everyone hugged and made nice for dinner with Mr. Head Poobah of the U.S., and Dave filed a dozen stories from Mobile World Congress (plus a slideshow!) despite craptastic Wi-Fi.
So we’re ready to stop filing and start surfing YouTube. Here we present our finest find of the week: Snooky vs the metronome. -Stacy
This week totally needs a kitten chaser. So we’re gonna follow Iggy’s lead, go home and play with our tech toys. TGIF, yay weekend and Go Packers! -Stacy
You gave us the iPad, flashy Droids, a brand-new Tech Tumblr, Groupon mania, and a bubble that may end in tears but gives us lots of fun new startups to play with while it lasts.
We’re off to drink Champagne and try to avoid the swarm around Times Square. We’re leaving you with cats singing Auld Lang Syne.
Kitten Friday comes a day early this week, featuring an iPad app made just for cats! Not sure why this is necessary for animals that are entertained by twist-ties and cardboard boxes, but it sure is entertaining!
Happy holidays from all of us at CNNMoney Tech! -David
