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A brief history of Bejeweled and similar “casual” games.

Tracking irc-style karma across Twitter. plusplusbot++

I completely forgot this was on tonight. Lovely little bit of Who geekery. Number 5 was “my” doctor too — the first one I remember watching.

Excellent infographic which certainly suggests that Barry Bonds’s alleged steroid use may have improved his batting skills.

Excellent (and lo-fi) video by some Daily Show writers on the current writers’ strike.

A consistent tactic for answering those stupid “What color was your first favourite pet?” type questions.

Nice infographics explaining the difference between a slider and a cutter.

Cunning — Amazon.com has been told it must start collecting sales tax from New York residents, because it has “salespeople” in NY. Those salespeople? New Yorkers with Amazon affiliate links on their website. Wonder if this will hold…

Exactly what you expect it to be.

Sadly, this is the most interesting and innovative thing I’ve read about “Android” so far — that they’re getting around Sun’s “J2ME” trademark/patent/licensing beartrap by implementing their own VM.

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Toys Backwards-R Us are giving away $25 gift cards when you buy Super Mario Galaxy from them. Since I was already planning on getting it, that makes me happy. (I’ll probably use the gift card to buy some Wii Points, so I can download Super Mario Bros 3 off of the Virtual Console. Woo!)

Great Rands article. It’s a bit hit-or-miss describing me, but the section “Nerds are fucking funny” sums me up perfectly. “Humor is an intellectual puzzle, “How can this particular set of esoteric trivia be constructed to maximize hilarity as quickly as possible?”“