Amazon Deals: Kindle 2 and Prototype!

The Amazon Deal of the Day is Prototype for $39.98 for the PS3 or Xbox 360 and $29.98 for Windows. It's cut from the same cloth as Hulk: Ultimate Destruction and Crackdown.

And, for those looking for an ebook reader, Amazon has dropped the price of the Kindle 2 to $299! That's a $50 drop, and it's ongoing (not a sale).

Also, for those who already have a Kindle, Joseph Finder's thriller Paranoia is available for free.

Thursday linkdump

1. Olivia Munn interviews Seth Green. Yes, the combined credits take longer than the actual interview.

2. Popular Science on bad web and social media practices. Most of this is stuff we all already know, but they find some surprising ones (including a really dumb one on Google's part).

3. Rick Bowes talks about the Stonewall riots forty years later.

4. The Lie that is Bookscan (shocking, seeing as Bookscan is owned by Nielsen, a company whose television measuring methods are decades out of date and insanely irrelevant).

5. Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans years after Katrina.

6. Chris Anderson's book Free is, appropriately-enough, available for free on Google Book Search.

7. I know the runner was technically safe, but Daniel Murphy's play here is still one of those plays that you see once a year, at best.

8. Justine Larbalestier on why agent websites are irrelevant.

9. Playboy will be publishing a long-lost Nabokov novella (against the author's wishes, mind you).

10. So, that Heather Graham role in The Hangover (one of the summer's huge hits)? Could have gone to Lindsay Lohan, but she turned it down because the screenplay had "no potential." Good call, there. Oh, wait.

Woohoo!

My first bylined piece for Publishers Weekly!

(Reviews, of course, are published without bylines, so it's nice to have a piece appear that I can actually point out to folks other than my wife.)

Weird flash game of the night

Here. Have a game in which you need to poke a woman in the forehead as many times as you can in a minute. Complications include rising platforms, power-ups, and random masks.

The internet remains full of weirdness.