Electric Box 2 is a fun little puzzler where you try to get power running from the source to the target. As with all these games, what sounds simple gets complicated pretty quick.
Month: September 2010
Why I Will Never Live In The Midwest, Reason #418
This is size of the hail and some of the damage it did in parts of Kansas last night, sent to me by a former Bend-ite that had to move there when Columbia was bought up by Cessna:
Update: A couple more from the storm, this time from a local golf course, sent by our Kansas corespondent:
Close Calls
Seriously, these people are lucky to be alive (though some of them are just plain stupid and put themselves into that situation):
(Update: New embed code.)
Reading (and Watching) Material
- Top Gear’s “Stig” Revealed and subsequently canned, called a “Greedy Twat” by one of the hosts. Apparently the upcoming U.S. version of Top Gear will have a stig as well.
- 25 Mario Facts for the 25th Anniversary.
- Speaking of Mario, here’s an adaptive Mario game that gets easier or harder depending on how and where you die (or how quickly you finish the level).
- You may have read Stuff White People Like, but here is the real stuff that white people like.
- From Canada to Mexico on a single tank of gas.
- Three Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website.
- More Facebook news: Facebook lets publishers contact “Likers.”.
- AMD to take stand against laptop stickers. Too bad the problem stickers on most laptops are put on by the manufacturers and are usually a pain to get off cleanly.
- Turn your blog into an iPad Web app with Padpressed.
- 10 Free WordPress Themes for Small Businesses.
- According to one politician, Girl Scouts breed “pro-abortion” lesbians.
- A good post 9/11 column by the late Hunter S. Thompson that everybody should read.
- Young gamer goes back and tries playing games older than him, and gets his rump kicked by a couple classics (I finished Contra with a friend of mine, but only because of the Konami code).
- I’m amazed that space shuttles can ever take off, consider the amount of satellites orbiting our planet. You can see the entire mess in Google Earth.
- Why our government never gets anything, reason #4817: obscene flowcharts.
- Install the new versions of iTunes without the bloatware.
- A local blogger (and friend of mine) is working on an Oregon XC Documentary and I’m sure I’ll know quite a few people in the final product.
- Every app has a scary basement.
- A good list of netbook operating systems to Windows.
- A stamp I need for the oddball crap that ends up on my desk.
- Ozone allows you to get instant suggestions from 15 sources to find what you’re looking for fast.
Check out some videos after the jump.
Luke Skywalker Is Hopeless
After boasting to the more experienced pilots of Red Squadron, he arrives late for the attack, disobeys orders and ignores Obi-Wan’s repeated pleas to use the force. The dude is nothing but trouble.
“I have read your website and it is obviously that your a foggot.”
I’ve gotten some really stupid e-mail from folks in the past, but I could never say that I’d reply so eloquently.
GoDaddy.com Up For Sale
I have a bunch of domains through GoDaddy, and I wonder what’s going to happen to them if they sell? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that GoDaddy.com is putting themselves up for auction. Which I find odd, as they had revenue between $750-800 million last year, which seems like they’re a stable company — why sell? I manage probably several dozen domains between a few accounts over there, and might consider moving them now.
In Case You Missed It…
Unless you’ve been in a hole the last 48 hours (I haven’t been feeling well, so I didn’t post this yesterday), you already know that Google debuted Instant Search (here’s Google’s announcement). However, what you may not have known is that there are some keyboard shortcuts that will make it even more useful.
50cent, Translated Into English
If you look at 50Cent’s twitter feed, you might be hard pressed to actually understand a word of it (I know I am). This translation service might help
In related news, it amazing 50cent’s only been shot nine times.
Time Killer For The Evening
Sieger is similar to a lot of other “Destroy The Castle” type of games, but instead of chucking stuff at a castle, you’re just blowing it to bits. Play it after the jump, and see if you can get a gold medal on all the levels (took me a while to get the last couple, but I did — purely by luck, me thinks).