Best Video Ever

Feeling a bit depressed this holiday season? Then cruise over to Jonathan Coulton’s web site and click the link to view his incredible original song ‘Flickr’. The video is nothing but a bunch of photos from Flickr, and the song is just a little ditty describing them all. But nothing I’ve seen has made me [...]

Cheap Game Parts

The folks over at Hasbro are nice. They really want you to be able to enjoy the games you buy from them. As a customer service gesture, they’ve put up a web page where you can order replacement parts. For cheap. Real cheap. Shipping included. They sell their parts so cheap that I am sorely [...]

Free Space on the Web

I wonder just how much free space somebody could glom onto if they really tried? I get a few megs with my Mediacom broadband account, and while that’s not exactly ‘free’, it is ‘included’ so I don’t pay extra for it. Better yet, I signed up for all of my extra email accounts there, and [...]

Rummy Murders v1.1

I’ve updated the rules to The Rummy Murders, ironing out some of the rough edges of the scorekeeping and gameplay. I think this is one of my best games for family play, and all it takes is a deck of cards. Check it out and see what you think.

Japanese Battle Pencils

I love games, especially simple ones, so I think this game is really cool. Via bOING bOING comes word of a game played by Japanese school children with specially marked pencils called ‘enpitsu’, or Battle Pencils. These are normal six-sided pencils with special instructions printed on each side. Each also defines a character with its [...]

Shelter in a Cart

I found out via bOING bOING (one of my favorite sites) about Shelter in a Cart, an interesting new project to design a shelter for the homeless which can double as a shopping cart. Their aim is to get corporate sponsors to pay to build and distribute these to the homeless. Great idea. Rather than [...]

Altoids USB Charger Kit

I just heard from Aaron Dunlap that he has shipped me my USB Charger Kit. This $7.50 kit will let me build a charger that works with my USB-powered Sony Clie, so I can play even more Solitaire and read even more eBooks while waiting in the doctor’s office. Anyway, the whole works will fit [...]

Family Guy to do Web-Only Shows

Fox has announced that they will produce some episodes of Family Guy for exclusive web distribution next year. Fox and some of the other networks just recently made many of their shows available for purchase on the web, most for just $1.99. I think this is the beginning of the long-heralded integration of the Internets [...]

Dream Girl

Be still my beating heart! I’ve finally found my dream girl – Anina, a blue-eyed, leggy redhead who is also a UNIX programmer. Who knew such a perfect creature existed in this world? Wired magazine has a feature on her here. Her personal blog is here.