Monday Links/Amazon Deals
Dec. 24th, 2007 09:03 am1. Contour is a damned nifty flash-based game. Imagine Marble Madness as a strategy game.
2. World's smallest Pac-Man, Asteroids, and more (ganked from
boutell)
3. Scientific American names its Top 25 Science Stories of 2007.
4. Hamlet, the text adventure.
5. Using the Wiimote for head tracking, whiteboards, and other fun stuff.
6. Malcolm Gladwell on some of the flaws in the MLB attempts to curb the use of HGH.
7. Yet another dumb idea from Yahoo: A special site to send "awards" to people. I just love it when the Internet successfully emulates 1987-era software like The Print Shop.
8. A better idea The Fifth Element for $4.99 (75% off).
9. Amazon's Video Game Deal of the Day is Crackdown for the X-Box 360 for $14.99 (50% off).
9.5 Also in videogames, you can get a 2000-point ($20) Wii Points Card for $17.99. Obviously, that's only worth it if you have Prime or bump your order over $25 for the free shipping, but it's a great deal.
10. Amazon pre-order deals: 101 Dalmatians (the two-disc edition of the animated one that didn't destroy my respect for Glenn Close) is $15.99 (47% off). Across the Universe (the special two-disc "try to forget that Evan Rachel Wood schtups Marilyn Manson" edition) is $19.99 (31% off). Hogfather is $13.99 (30% off). And Becoming Jane is $19.99 (33% off).
2. World's smallest Pac-Man, Asteroids, and more (ganked from
3. Scientific American names its Top 25 Science Stories of 2007.
4. Hamlet, the text adventure.
5. Using the Wiimote for head tracking, whiteboards, and other fun stuff.
6. Malcolm Gladwell on some of the flaws in the MLB attempts to curb the use of HGH.
7. Yet another dumb idea from Yahoo: A special site to send "awards" to people. I just love it when the Internet successfully emulates 1987-era software like The Print Shop.
8. A better idea The Fifth Element for $4.99 (75% off).
9. Amazon's Video Game Deal of the Day is Crackdown for the X-Box 360 for $14.99 (50% off).
9.5 Also in videogames, you can get a 2000-point ($20) Wii Points Card for $17.99. Obviously, that's only worth it if you have Prime or bump your order over $25 for the free shipping, but it's a great deal.
10. Amazon pre-order deals: 101 Dalmatians (the two-disc edition of the animated one that didn't destroy my respect for Glenn Close) is $15.99 (47% off). Across the Universe (the special two-disc "try to forget that Evan Rachel Wood schtups Marilyn Manson" edition) is $19.99 (31% off). Hogfather is $13.99 (30% off). And Becoming Jane is $19.99 (33% off).