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More Scrabble thoughts

Having completed a couple games of Scrabulous in Facebook, I have some more thoughts about what I do and don't... (More...)

Philosophy of Scrabble

At some point I'll post more about Facebook. But for now, having fallen into two Scrabulous games almost immediately upon... (More...)

Items: Chain games

Three Flash games with only the vaguest of thematic connections to each other. Chain Factor. You drop numbered circles into... (More...)

Arcade games (and pinball) in San Jose this weekend

This weekend in San José is California Extreme 2007, "an annual celebration of coin operated pinball machines [and] video games,"... (More...)

Flash, Java, and JavaScript games/toys/puzzles roundup

Assorted interesting and/or cool online games, toys, and puzzles: Gimme Friction Baby, which Charles D described as "sort of a... (More...)

Second Life, terraforming, Oversight, ARG?

It seems that Jason Stoddard's company, Centric, has offices in Second Life (as well as in the real world). Recently,... (More...)

Computer game day

Today's been a day full of computer games. I took a vacation day, 'cause Mary Anne was here. We were... (More...)

Cool online games/toys

Be prepared to spend quite a lot of time on these. (The first two require Flash; the third is a... (More...)

Spelunker Today and Easy Sally

One of the many ways I misspent my youth was by playing the original Colossal Cave text adventure. A bunch... (More...)

Items: Video

Links to a bunch of cool online video items, for your delectation and enjoyment. Some of these require Flash; some... (More...)

Bouncy ball-droppy soundy pingy thing

Scott introduced me to a nifty software toy: BallDroppings, available for Mac, Windows, and mobile phones, plus a Java version.... (More...)

Items: Keep the objects moving

Three more or less unrelated items of varying levels of interactivity: Thomas Dietz juggling video #10. Even the people who... (More...)

Online tile game

Michael showed me a cool tile puzzle/game today called Tantrix. Despite the name, it has nothing to do with sex;... (More...)