1:28 PM (1 comments)
I'm a big fan of the Slate Explainer, and this one was particularly good: Why Do We Think Aliens Are Made of Water?

1:21 PM (1 comments)
Check out what a Florida Power & Light crew found in a culvert by the side of the road. (via Making Light.)

1:39 AM (0 comments)
GameSpy is rounding up--and more importantly, providing download links for--the finalists for the 2006 Independent Games Festival.

11:14 AM (0 comments)
Over on Gamasutra, the Accordian Hero post-mortem (via Kotaku.)

1:41 AM (0 comments)
Sherlock Holmes and The Secret, according to Harlan Ellison.

1:40 AM (2 comments)
Which-Way Adventure (via Metafilter.) Around the time I was adventuring in an alternate history created by accidentally shotgunning Shakespeare, I knew I had to share this game.

(Hint: Don't let the manticore get you down. Sometimes he's the only way to escape the hobos*.)

* Yes, that will make sense if you play long enough. Be sure to play long enough.

9:59 PM (0 comments)
So The Apprentice is looking for a new bunch of overaggressive megalomaniacs, and they're starting the search a block from my house.

I have no intention of applying, but I might go over to check out the scene. And if a little bit of raw meat gets tossed into the crowd from above, just to see what happens, so be it...

7:52 PM (1 comments)
Perhaps you saw the video floating around the web in the last couple weeks, where juggler Chris Bliss did a pretty amazing three-ball juggling routine to "Golden Slumbers".

Inevitably in the entertainment business, showmanship gives way to one-ups-manship...and so I give you (via Penn Jillette's podcast) the Golden Slumbers juggling routine redone by juggler Jason Garfield with five balls. (Don't miss the even more incredible bit of ten-ball juggling at the end.)