Pandemic, the game
I've now played the cooperative boardgame Pandemic five times (all at the beginner level) and won twice. When I first... (More...)
I've now played the cooperative boardgame Pandemic five times (all at the beginner level) and won twice. When I first... (More...)
I played the Portal closing-credits song, "Still Alive," for Kam the other day, as a sort of coda to our... (More...)
I've downloaded 100 iPhone apps in the five months or so since I got my iPhone 3G. Been meaning for... (More...)
Had dinner with Pam & Arthur & Ray & Robbie (who's about to turn 2); got home, decided to give... (More...)
I sat down this afternoon to finish playing Portal--I had made it halfway through level 18 previously (with the knowledge,... (More...)
A couple games that've been sitting around in my browser windows: The so-called "French Military Game" is a Java version... (More...)
I think I'm not really entirely awake today. I was just looking at the electoral map at the top right... (More...)
I still haven't figured out the right way to balance my language blog with my main blog. Whenever I post... (More...)
Spore is finally being released! Apparently it's already available in much of the rest of the world, but the North... (More...)
Friday evening, Kam and I watched National Treasure 2. It was fun and silly; perhaps not quite as much fun... (More...)
For years, a store called Gamescape (in Palo Alto) was where I always went to buy games. I didn't buy... (More...)
I'm playing Scrabulous again with Mary Anne. Good words so far: she led with TILDE, I countered with PORCINI, she... (More...)
Been a busy week for software releases of interest to me; even more pleasing, all three of the items here... (More...)
Having completed a couple games of Scrabulous in Facebook, I have some more thoughts about what I do and don't... (More...)
At some point I'll post more about Facebook. But for now, having fallen into two Scrabulous games almost immediately upon... (More...)
Three Flash games with only the vaguest of thematic connections to each other. Chain Factor. You drop numbered circles into... (More...)
This weekend in San José is California Extreme 2007, "an annual celebration of coin operated pinball machines [and] video games,"... (More...)
Assorted interesting and/or cool online games, toys, and puzzles: Gimme Friction Baby, which Charles D described as "sort of a... (More...)
It seems that Jason Stoddard's company, Centric, has offices in Second Life (as well as in the real world). Recently,... (More...)
Today's been a day full of computer games. I took a vacation day, 'cause Mary Anne was here. We were... (More...)
Be prepared to spend quite a lot of time on these. (The first two require Flash; the third is a... (More...)
One of the many ways I misspent my youth was by playing the original Colossal Cave text adventure. A bunch... (More...)
Links to a bunch of cool online video items, for your delectation and enjoyment. Some of these require Flash; some... (More...)
Scott introduced me to a nifty software toy: BallDroppings, available for Mac, Windows, and mobile phones, plus a Java version.... (More...)
Three more or less unrelated items of varying levels of interactivity: Thomas Dietz juggling video #10. Even the people who... (More...)
Michael showed me a cool tile puzzle/game today called Tantrix. Despite the name, it has nothing to do with sex;... (More...)