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Scribblenauts Unlimited for Wii U is listed for $19.99 at Amazon. Originally priced at $59.99, the puzzle game is the first title in the Scribblenauts series to hit Wii U, and it launched alongside the console in November 2012. The fifth game in the franchise, Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure, arrived on Wii U in September 2013. Both titles are also available for Nintendo 3DS and PC. However, the Wii U edition is the only version in which Nintendo characters and objects can appear.

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You know the Internet is loaded with great videos. But holding students accountable for watching, or making the viewing experience more active, is a challenge. Without standing right over students, how do you know if they’re really watching?

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As New York City’s new mayor prepared to take office late last year, a local tabloid decided to show him who really ran the town. In a series of outrageous covers, the New York Post humiliated one of the mayor’s longtime aides with racy photos, and headlines like “Give her the heave-ho, de Blasio!”

In the end, the Post prevailed (after a nasty “Ho! Ho! Ho!” cover and stories early this month about toe-sucking) and the embattled aide quietly left the mayor’s team. The ousting was a clear victory for the Post, yet it also felt like a swan song. It was a reminder of how the Post and other tabloids have for years browbeat local politicians to shape the agenda of a city, but are now struggling for relevance amid a cacophony of online media noise.

The decline of papers like the Post represents the end…

Last Sunday’s segment on CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes, “The Cleantech Crash,” asked the question, “Is cleantech dead?” It seems to have been convenient for 60 Minutes to reinforce their chosen narrative by suggesting that cleantech is, if not yet quite dead, then on its deathbed. Moreover, according to 60 Minutes, the Obama Administration’s efforts to tip the scales away from fossil fuels in favor of clean energy technologies have been ham-handed, ineffective and pursued at a brutal cost to American taxpayers.

The actual truth is quite a bit different, indeed almost diametrically opposite.

A real industry has developed

Since President Obama took office in 2008, the cost of solar panels in the United States has dropped by 75 percent and big wind turbines have increased their net capacity factor from 20-30 percent to 50 percent for new turbines with the effect being that, in more than 20 states…

To coincide with the launch of the incredibly cute Kirby Triple Deluxe, Nintendo has released the Kirby Triple Deluxe soundtrack which is available on Club Nintendo Japan. The soundtrack is available for 250 points for those who bought the game and have registered it on the site. For those that don’t own the game, but want the soundtrack, then it will set you back 400 points. The Kirby Triple Deluxe Sound Selection CD features 46 tracks and 3 bonus ones.

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When a software company asks me if I think its new product will succeed globally, I typically respond by asking: Is your product translation worthy? In other words, are people eager to voluntary translate your app or website into their language?

This phenomenon is commonly known as “translation crowdsourcing,” and a number of familiar names have relied on the kindness of strangers to take their products and websites global—companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter. When a website or software application is so appealing to users around the world that they will help translate it—for free—the odds are quite good that the product will succeed globally.

Google, in its early years, relied largely on volunteer translators to help take its search engine interface from one to more than 100 languages. Today, Google relies on the crowd to comment on the quality of its machine translation engine, creating a virtuous cycle…