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From Joystiq. Patrick Curry is a video game designer, and for every week of this year he’s posting an idea for a game—and they’re excellent, inventive, and well-thought-out (considering they’re weekly). Rather than summarising them here, I’ll just suggest you take a look at them yourself.
One of my favourites is the Blackout concept:
Blackout is a survival game with a realistic premise: you’re trapped in a large urban city that’s completely devoid of electricity. There aren’t monsters, zombies, or aliens taking over the city… just other people. How will you escape? How will you survive?
From Boing Boing, a $200 mosquito catcher that, in a trial, caught 1200 mosquitoes in one night. Every street should have one at that price.
The Spike is a useful little Microsoft Word feature. The Microsoft Word Help says:
To use the Spike, you remove two or more items from nonadjacent locations, append each item to the Spike’s contents [using CTRL+F3], and then insert the items as a group in a new location or document. The items remain in the Spike, so you can insert them repeatedly. If you want to add a different set of items to the Spike, you must first empty the Spike’s contents [with CTRL+SHIFT+F3].
Basically, you can go around selecting text and images and pressing CTRL+F3 to grab them from the page and stick them in the Spike. When you’re done, you press CTRL+SHIFT+F3 and it spits out everything you’ve put into it. It is also cleared when you do this.
I love everything the Chaser team does, and that includes the War. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a comedy show, recorded in front of a live studio audience, where the team discuss various happenings and generally generate comdy. This week, among other things:
- they played clips of, and talked about, Chas Licciardello’s boneheading at the Logies (as I called it last week)—he scored a grand total of around 34 appearances.
- Craig Reucassel went door-to-door with email spam
- Charles Firth vox pop’d Americans, trying to see if he could get one to break George Bush’s record of saying ‘freedom’ 17 times in one speech/conversation (he succeeded)
This is one show I’ve got to get on DVD, but in the meantime I’m downloading the episodes.
There’s a (fairly) new version of foobar2000 (the minimalist, powerful, extensible, brilliant audio player) now available: 0.9.1. Some new features (playing WMAs, for one) and a fair bit more polish than 0.8.3.
Also, make sure you get the Columns UI component for maximum graphical niceness.
The World’s Smallest Political Quiz is a short quiz that is fairly accurate at mapping your views on the political landscape. As I already knew, I’m a centrist (60% on personal, 30% on economic).
The Torrent Jabberwalker, found at jabberwalker.com.ar is an excellent BitTorrent meta search engine that I have been using for sometime. It searches all the popular torrent sites, including TorrentSpy and Seedler, and displays all the results on one page. It’s easily the best BitTorrent search engine around.
Note: the Jabberwalker sometimes goes offline with server issues, but so far it has always come back after a short while.
µTorrent is an excellent BitTorrent application I have recently begun using. Even though it’s only a single 154 kilobyte .exe, it has all the features I could ever need. It also has an appealing interface, it’s easy to use, and it’s completely stable.
Look at the download size! There’s no excuse not to try it out.
flOw is a Flash game created by Jenova Chen and Nicholas Clark. You start off as a tiny creature swimming in a deep pool, and as the game progresses you get bigger and go deeper.
The game has nice sound and graphics, but the most notable aspect is the gameplay, which naturally unfolds and becomes more complex as new features and gameplay elements are introduced. There are no instructions that you need to read before you can play—you just get thrown in. New features and gameplay elements are introduced in a very natural way.
flOW is a short but rewarding game, and I recommend playing it.