cskull@bu.edu | 18 posts
Colin Scully (COM '12) is the technology/video game/design front/sophomore writer for the BU Quad and since his main writing focus is open to interpretation, he prefers to operate without a title. On his days off, he enjoys Thievery Corporation, Final Fantasy VIII, West Campus bacon, and re-enactments of the October Revolution.
He also asks to be disassociated from all news and articles pertaining to this other Colin Scully - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1148505/Man-strangled-wife-death-called-wrong-sex.html
Colin Scully's PR team would also like him to acknowledge that the Colin Scully in the news article is NOT the other Colin Scully that attends BU. In fact, Colin Scully would like to add that him and his BU counterpart actually play croquet regularly on Sundays and are great friends.

My immediate reaction following the conclusion of Steve Jobs’ iPad keynote was a lack of any kind of reaction at all. It was more indifference. I needed to absorb what I had just been shown, but I wasn’t sure why. The second reaction was confusion, because I couldn’t exactly understand why I wasn’t feeling anything [...]

Apple defied all expectations today by announcing a ten-inch iPhone rather than their expected Tablet computer, resulting in a massive embarrassment for news outlets, stock holders, and trending Twitter topics. The upgraded 3G touch screen will feature enhanced versions of all aspects of the iPhone, and include an “iBooks” app and its own version of [...]


Like G-mail, Google Maps, Google Books, Google News, Google Earth, Google Chrome, and www.google.com, Google has just come out with something incredibly useful and very innovative that’s free, sending a big message to all other corporations out there that charge for those very things (Garmin learned the hard way). Google Wave, recently released into closed [...]


Recently, Apple’s oft-rumored Tablet device has done nothing but build up in hype, despite the fact that Apple has never confirmed a word of what’s been said. A recent article in CNN recently summed up essentially every reason there is to be excited about such a prospect, without offering up any new information on the [...]


“I think that a lot of people feel like the point of life is to be happy, or comfortable, or something like that, whereas I am highly suspicious of those things. All other things being equal I like being happy, but the problem is, all other things are not equal — probably happiness comes at [...]

This post is actually just to satisfy my own personal excitement. I’ll be in my room that month.

Keeping up with the popular trend of technology moving outlandishly fast, analysts over at In-Stat have gone ahead and announced that the days of HDTV are most likely numbered, as research towards affordable UHDV televisions continues to grow. UHDV projects in resolutions of 7680 x 4320 and 3840 x 2160 (32 million pixels), effectively making [...]

Video games often come under extreme criticism for lacking the artistic and intelligent ambitions that literature or film can bring to a narrative. The reality is actually that such games do exist (in fact, if you know where to look they’re quite common), but are simply overshadowed by big-budget action titles or standard sequel fare. Such [...]

I thought we’d reached the worst when CTA Digital released a bowling ball peripheral for the Nintendo Wii but apparently, that was just to brace us for what was yet to come. On November 10, 505 Games will release Baby & Me, a mini-game collection centered around child-rearing. Not content with simply having their four-year-old [...]


Do the consequences of letting students perform private activity on their university-provided network outweigh the alternative: network monitoring? It’s an ongoing debate I had mostly shied away from, not because I don’t care (I’m a poor, media-loving, computer-hogging, liberal arts major – read between the lines) but because I had accepted Boston University’s freshman orientation [...]