- One Button Bob is a game controlled entirely with a single mouse button — and that mouse button will get a work out.
- Speaking of single-button games, G-Switch can be played by multiple players on the same computer, all using a single button.
Month: February 2010
One-Button Time Killers For The Evening
Central Oregon Symphony Children’s Concert This Weekend
I actually sent this to Jon last week (because, really, who comes to my site to look for local events?), but wanted to wait to post something here until I knew exactly what we were doing for the concert. The Central Oregon Symphony is putting on a family-friendly children’s concert this weekend. Whether you’re a kid of even an adult, this concert (which will last about an hour or so) will be an educational and fun experience for everybody. There will be music, demos of the various instruments, some audience participation, and a whole lot of fun (and some hand-on stuff afterwards).
The concert is free at 2PM at Bend High School on Saturday, February 13 (the full-length concerts are the following weekend). Hope to see you there!
Reading Material
- Setup a whole-house speaker system using existing phone lines.
- Cheap but powerful video card for HTPC use.
- The thickness of napkins in the programming world.
- SimpleFolio, a nice wordpress theme.
- If you missed the Super Bowl commercials last night, they’ve all been posted here (and the story behind the Leno, Oprah, Letterman ad is over here). Vote for your favorite here.
- According to teenagers, sites like mine aren’t cool anymore. Not that I’m losing sleep over losing the under-18 demo.
- Another high school, another overzelous administration conficating newspapers that do some real reporting.
- Always wear your seat belt.
- The anti-vaccine autism paper had catastrophic effects.
- Symbian Operating System is Now Open Source and Free — but will it matter?
- Relatively Portal.
- Netflix 28-Day Window Would Decimate Their Top Rental List.
- Kwedit, a new completely unreliable payment network.
- Calagator, open-source project for calendar aggregation (like Portland’s tech events).
- Run your own URL Shortener, and hopefully have better luck with spammers than my failed attempt (Ken is using it here).
- If you run a MovableType blog, this site might interest you.
- Licensing Delay Complicates Decision Between Open Source and Proprietary Video Players.
Time Killer For The Evening
I don’t have a mouse wheel on my laptop, nor do I have an extra external mouse that has one (as a mouse wheel is required), but I’ve heard a lot of people say this is a very nice original game. Feel free to judge for yourself.
Speaking of Flash toys, this one puts our place in the universe in a little perspective.
Reading Material
- 30 Commercial Games That Have Been Released for Free.
- The Apple iMaxiPad.
- Speaking of iPad, here’s a GUI PSD for it so you can start making your app interfaces.
- Life below 600 pixels (or “below the fold”).
- Software on the Cheap (or: Why good software is not something your cousin’s nephew can do.).
- Uncovering the secrets of Mega Shark.
- OptiPNG, great command line tool to knock some weight off PNG files.
- HTML5 isn’t going to save the Internet.
- Southpark Mac vs. PC.
- Man films his wife crying after movies, posts it online, everybody laughs (including the wife).
- Random picture blog for the day: Hot Chicks Plunging Their Toilets.
- Javascript experiments in Chrome.
- Speaking of impressive Javascript, Windows 3.1 Program Manager in Javascript.
- Sexting is now just for teens — old folks are doing it, too (yikes).
- Speaking of disgusting, Miley’s 9-year old sister is launching a lingerie line for kids.
Time Killer For The Night
It’s Gluey, and it’s simple, but quite fun.