The 20 most entertaining Super Bowl tweets
(CNN) — In the social media age, you don’t need to be at a party to enjoy clever or catty comments about the Super Bowl.
Twitter was ablaze Sunday evening with running commentary about every conceivable aspect of Super Bowl XLVI, from Patriots’ tight end Rob Gronkowski’s balky ankle to Madonna’s acrobatic halftime show to all those commercials. (Yes, Clint Eastwood’s gravelly voice is bringing Detroit back. And was that really Motley Crue shilling for Kia?)
Users were sending an average of 8,000 tweets per second during Madonna’s “world peace”-themed performance and an average of 10,000 tweets per second during the game’s dramatic final three minutes, according to Twitter.
These weren’t the most informative tweets about Sunday’s big game, but they
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Q&A with game creator Curt Schilling
They built the ‘Kingdoms’: Author R.A. Salvatore, left, artist Todd McFarlane and Curt Schilling.
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A new ballgame for Curt Schilling: ‘Kingdoms of Amalur’
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the first game from 38 Studios, the development company he founded six years ago, arrives in stores Tuesday ($60, for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PCs, ages 17-up).
Schilling’s pitch for Reckoning: It has more action than the standard fantasy role-playing game.
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In typical RPGs — you take the role of a warrior, magician or other class — the combat between your hero and adversaries has a detached feel, Schilling says. He charged the designers of Reckoning with making its fighting scenes as personal and smooth as those in adventure games such as God of War and even fighting games such as Mortal Kombat.
“I really believe we’ve
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Louisiana city blazes high-speed Web trail
More than 800 miles of fiber-optic cable hum invisibly underground in Lafayette, a city of 120,000, delivering Internet speeds of up to 100 megabits per second — rare for even major cities. The cutting-edge connectivity in the heart of Cajun country is due not to a private telecom giant but to a public municipal service that offers higher speeds and often lower rates than the private sector.
It hasn’t come without a fight. From the time the cyber network was just a far-fetched concept, the city’s two main private providers, Cox Communications and BellSouth (now ATT), have fought the initiative every step of the way — from an information campaign against the project to civil lawsuits.
LUS Fiber, a subsidiary of Lafayette Utilities System, the city-owned power company, offers the speedy Internet service along with cable television and phone service.
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Bigger U.S. role against companies’ cyberthreats?
Legislation set to come out in the days ahead is intended to ensure that computer systems running power plants and other essential parts of the country’s infrastructure are protected from hackers, terrorists or other criminals. The Department of Homeland Security, with input from businesses, would select which companies to regulate; the agency would have the power to require better computer security, according to officials who described the bill. They spoke on condition of anonymity because lawmakers have not finalized all the details.
Those are the most contentious parts of legislation designed to boost cybersecurity against the constant attacks that target U.S. government, corporate and personal computer networks and accounts. Authorities are increasingly worried that cybercriminals are trying to take over systems that control the inner workings of water, electrical, nuclear or other power plants.
