http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/518282
I've come around to the idea of this genre of game ever since the brilliant Learn to Fly. This is a fun one in the same vein, except with a squirrel instead of a penguin! (Protip: your A and S keys are pretty important here. Took me a while to figure that out.)
Tech Buzz Try and make it through a series of brain-teasing puzzles using as few clicks as possible. If you like this one, go back and play the first ClickPlay.
Tech Buzz If you make it into DonQ's Secret Room, you can boost BuzzFeed's top posts with a comment on the homepage. Find out what posts were boosted most from the Secret Room and answer the age old question: what wins at the internet: kittens or drunk chicks?
http://www.patrickmoberg.com/internet-vices/
In which Twitter is crack, YouTube is tequila, and MySpace is huffing paint.
Occasionally, two people having bad days can kind of cancel each other out.
Make your name way, way better. Even if you think your name's pretty cool now, you can use this technology to significantly improve it.
Tech Buzz Finally, a Catholic video game. Transubstantiation brought to the laypeople!!! (BuzzFeed Dan Brown Book Club taught me that there is room in the world for technology and religion, so I do not think this is fake.)
It all just makes so much sense. Why the hell didn't they make this movie in the '90s? (Don't answer that.)
Left 4 Dead 2 comes out today, so in celebration of shooting zombies in the face, Eric Ruth released this preview of his 8-bit remake of the original Left 4 Dead.
Microsoft's deeply awkward attempt at a “spontaneous” viral dance video turns out just kind of weird and depressing. Given the proliferation of too cool for school, Mac-fanboy tech blogs, this was probably never going to go well. But yikes.
Out of all the strange things that ever arose from Google, I think this is the best. (Via Geekologie.)
Tech Buzz Although Apple bans porn from the iPhone, there are quite a few alluring apps that sneak by the censors. Everything from 'The Asian Boobs App' to yes the 'Latina Bikini Fart App'. Current TV's Ben Hoffman tests them out just for you.
http://www.urlesque.com/2009/11/12/five-facebook-fails/
Did you know that there are five distinct types of Facebook FAILs? From the 'Mom Invasion FAIL' to the 'Darwin FAIL', this is basically a quickie manual how to NOT use the dreaded social networking behemoth.
Have you tried Google Wave yet? I hear it's really great. Could you send me an invite? [Amanda's Note: I had a total meltdown courtesy of Google Wave at around 5:50 pm. Caveat invitees.]
A blog of Facebook photos that were taken seconds apart animated into hypnotic two–frame gifs. Thanks to their lovely javascript arrow–key commands I can spend literally minutes just flicking back and forth between pictures and giggling like a Japanese schoolgirl.
Tech Buzz Lots of good games today. Here's a puzzler where you get to add elements to each level to get to the goal.
Tech Buzz Propaganda goes down way easier when it comes in the form of a side-scrolling platformer with cute animals in it. Plus, Mario Bros. references! Try and beat the game before you realize that you are having anti-McDonald's information beamed directly into your brain.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/experience-the-darkside...
Zombies + Blood + Getting to Shoot Zombies = Good Advertising. [Editor's Note: Worth a watch even if you're not the biggest fan of zombies. Though if that's true, we should probably have a talk about this issue.]
Tech Buzz I feel kind of bad that the point of this game is to wake up a sleeping box who's done me no wrong, but that's just how Flash games work sometimes. That's right, we're moving Game Battle up an ENTIRE DAY because we have something so awesome coming at you tomorrow. Prepare your soul!!
This amazing work of geek art is displayed proudly in the lobby of the headquarters of ASUS in Peitou, Taiwan.