Even in Wimpy Kid format I’m towering over everyone. Go make your own portrait here.

Yes

• Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword – Wii MotionPlus and a guaranteed stylish storyline
• GoldenEye remake – When I was a Resident Assistant at NAU, the guys in my hallway played GoldenEye multiplayer until way past quiet hours. A remake with Daniel Craig as the voice and confirmed online matches makes this a ‘Yes’.
• The 3DS – it has two cameras in the front to take 3D photos as well as the ability to play 3D movies and games. I saw an ad for a 3D TV last night and they were so proud of their glasses. Dorky 3D shades – No. 3DS letting you play without the need of glasses – a benefit for those of us who wear glasses already – Yes

No

• Edward Barbie
  
  Just no. No. Jacob? No.

I’m a fan of the Metroid Prime video game series and appreciate the style Retro Studios added to the long-standing franchise. We’ll see during E3 tomorrow if Nintendo announces the Donkey Kong re-boot. I’ll be watching the streaming event at e3.nintendo.com at 9am tomorrow. (I’m also hoping for more info on the MotionPlus Zelda title that has been rumored.)

The library has 30 computers that are always full during lunch. I’d be interested to see students’ reactions to DimensionM, a first-person shooter (Halo and Call of Duty are examples of the genre) that pauses the action to ask Math questions. The game uses lasers and slime-ish stuff, so it doesn’t seem that violent. It’s designed with the purpose of being an educational game. I’d like to test how much Math they remember and if they’d be annoyed by the questions popping out of nowhere.

Of course the iPhone 4 would be fun, but here are some other gadgets that would be fun for this summer.

The video swim mask is as simple as it sounds: a mask that takes videos. But how cool would it be to film whatever you were swimming near? Scuba diving in shipwrecks would be awesome, since you would have both hands free to punch undead pirates and/or sharks. I had the opportunity to snorkel off the coast of Roatan years ago and have only memories to share of the underwater experience. Those are good, but I’d like to show people the barracuda that did a Maverick-to-tower fly-by past me.

Now if you plan on sleeping in this summer, then the Sleep Blaster app is not for you. But if you do have to wake up this summer and are disgruntled by the notion, you can set up your phone to respond to you yelling at it.

It also has “dynamite mode” for those people who always wanted to wake up to the sound of an explosion.

I’m not an extremist, nor do I think I am asking for too much. I know that a flying car would require quite a bit of zoning work for the Department of Transportation and, frankly, I think people are crazy enough driving on just the X and Y axis.

But where’s my hoverboard? Are we any closer?

While I wait I’ll have to be content with a robot moon station and the crazy balancing scooter chair.

(Check out the multidirectional moving. One large tire consisting of smaller tires. Simple, yet jaw-dropping.)

Check out the itinerary for the Google I/O developer’s conference. On Thursday, from 1pm to 3:15pm, there’s a section labeled “to be announced” in the Android section.

Currently we have Google Books where you can browse sections of books, as well as full texts of public domain works. Would Google TV be using that sort of indexing mixed with YouTube technology to display TV? Imagine that on a portable phone running Android.

We’ll see tomorrow. Man, that developer’s conference would be awesome to attend.

Once Netflix set it up to stream videos to the Wii, I was sold. Even the DVD queue shows up very quickly. I don’t watch TV that much and I have to schedule which shows I watch. Even the ones I schedule now from broadcast TV are not as interesting as shows that I had wanted to watch years ago but didn’t have time. (A teacher asked me if I watched a show that’s currently on right now. I told her there was this great show called X-Files that I found. She looked at me like I’m crazy.)

As a librarian it’s funny that I’m looking for something like Netflix but for books. We loan out books all the time – for free! I wonder if public libraries could start mailing books to people’s homes. At the junior high where I work, everything’s within walking distance, so I have an advantage over the public library.

The big difference between DVDs and books is weight. Books cost a lot more to ship. Prepaid return envelopes would be more expensive.

Some college bookstores are attempting textbook rentals. A friend of mine at ASU says that he tried renting a book and came out even. He saved as much money as he would have made re-selling the textbook to the college bookstore. That’s not always the case, like if I tried to re-sell my complete works of Shakespeare textbook. (Although it’s pretty awesome, so why would I do that?)

One site that’s catching a lot of attention is chegg.com for textbook rentals. They’ve got a great search interface and what seems like a decent selection of textbooks. That still doesn’t save you from the professor who published a book and requires you to buy that specific book. (Or worse, won’t accept the first edition because you have to buy the second edition where they added a paragraph.)

A site that looks like it is ripping off Netflix (check out their “No Late Fees” graphic…look familiar?) is booksfree.com. I don’t know if I would try it because it does look like a scam site. If anyone has had a good experience with the site, let me know.

Bookswim has different pricing plans, but all would add up very quickly to being very expensive each year.

Bookmooch is like a mix between craigslist and Weight Watchers, if that isn’t an interesting enough mental picture. You turn in books and get points to spend (like your WW calorie points) to “mooch” other books. As with craigslist, the selection is only as good as what people contribute.

For textbooks, I could see myself renting one for class. For all other books, though, I think the library still beats all other options. Now if I could get a cheap eReader with a monthly subscription with unlimited selection…that would catch my attention.

7,000 copies of a cookbook in Australia are scheduled to be destroyed and re-printed because of one word that made it into the final copy that shouldn’t have. It will cost Penguin around $20,000. What’s really funny is that the typo came from a word suggestion by the spell checking software. Click here to find out more about the error.

There are a lot of Twitter users, upwards of 105 million registered users. Even if they update just once a day, that’s a lot of messages.

Google has been tagging tweets to include into live searches. That’s how I found the most current information about the iPad when Steve Jobs announced it.

Now the Library of Congress is going to archive all public messages. Readers will be able to cross-reference tons of information. I love following NASA Twitter accounts to get updated news way before regular media has anything to say. It will take on a very organized format and be preserved for a while. Read more about it at USA Today.