This September, Hero Interactive released their free and awesome flash game Microbe Kombat. You’re a microbe and the rules are simple: eat, get big, or get eaten. And don’t catch any viruses.

Playable at Hero Interactive and Random Good Stuff.

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If you dig Microbe Kombat, you’re going to love Jenova Chen’s award-winning flash game flOw - as a plankton, you eat, grow, and make your way to the bottom of the ocean. And the music is amazing.

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The Videlectrix free flash game “Where’s an Egg“:
Awesome 8-bit soundtrack and graphics, and an entertaining game once you get the hang of it.
There are no instructions.

In simple terms:
• Someone has the egg and you must shoot them.
• Others may know who has the egg.
• Everyone has a place and an object.
• Some suspects lie and some tell the truth and there are ways of finding out who.

My best score to date: 992

(via Didn’tYouHear, via Notcot)

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If you happen to have the last name Jones, and if you happen to have a PhD, you get a free XL Explorer Pizza at Papa John’s Pizza (until October 26th) - a tie-in to Papa John’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” DVD sales.

(via Media Post’s Marketing Daily)

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Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to Fantastic Contraption where you are challenged to build a vehicle out of a few parts to move an object from one point to another. Created by Colin Northway with music and art by James Mark and Sarah Collins, respectively, the challenges start our easy but get difficult and interesting pretty fast. One avid workplace engineer reports that this is the most addictive online game he’s ever played.

This is flash freeware, but users have the opportunity to support the game’s designers and try user-created levels. Give it a shot and let us know what vehicles you create!

(Thanks VJ!)

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Tootsie Roll Industries (the makers of Tootsie Rolls, duh) have some pretty swell wallpapers. And even free nostalgic ringtones.

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MarvelKids.com - Create Your Own Superhero

(via Pop Candy)

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When I lived in Europe, television was filled with ads for ringtones and phone wallpapers. The majority of the ringtones were all lame/vulgar noises and the wallpapers were as campy as it gets.

Thus, I was inspired to create the World’s Most Awesome-est Ringtones and the World’s Most Awesome-est Phone Wallpapers.

Download and enjoy.

click on image for phone-sized downloadable version

 

 World's Awesome-est Ringtone: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 World's Awesome-est [Pulse] Ringtone: Play Now | Play in Popup

World’s Most Awesome-est Ringtone (mp3 download)
World’s Most Awesome-est [Pulse] Ringtone (mp3 download)

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Some tasty new wallpapers of interesting ice creams I’ve recently eaten.

Click on the thumbnail for the full-sized downloadable wallpaper.

Helados México “Pastel de Fresa” (Strawberry Shortcake) flavored popsicle.

Helados México “Chicle” (Bubblegum) flavored popsicle.

Lucerne “Birthday Cake” ice cream in a pink Rainbow Cone.

Philly Swirl “Cotton Candy” flavored Swirl Stix Popsicle.

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Heya folks - a new batch of Blogadilla ice cream wallpapers for you.

Click on the thumbnail for the full-sized downloadable wallpaper.

Lucerne “Birthday Cake” ice cream in a pink Rainbow Cone.

“Cotton Candy” flavored Swirl Stix popsicle (by Philly Swirl ).

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(cool image by Josh Bancroft)

Sweltering heat.
The smell of BBQ and citronella candles.
The sound of the ice cream truck coasting down your street.

WFMU’s collection of ice cream truck (downloadable) audio clips.
And part II of the collection.

They make the perfect Summer ringtones.

 

 Hello: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Mr. Softee: Play Now | Play in Popup

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Cool free Indiana Jones Icons, from IconFactory.

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Summer and the sweltering heat are here. Below are some updated fancy new ice cream wallpapers I’ve made, to get all of you in the Summer mood.

Click on the images for downloadable wallpapers of each.

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Santa Cruz, CA.
Vanilla soft-serve with blue cotton candy swirl.

Dreyer*s “Take the Cake” ice cream (yellow cake flavored ice cream with blue frosting swirl and colored sprinkles). Safeway “Rainbow Cone” green ice cream cone.

Foster’s Freeze, Menlo Park, CA.
Grape (wax?) dipped soft-serve vanilla.

Baskin & Robbins, Menlo Park, CA.
“Rock’n Pop Swirl” (grape and green apple sherbet with Pop Rocks mixed in) on top of Cotton Candy ice cream.

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This month’s issue of Wired magazine ran an article about MegaPhone - turning big-screen billboards into giant game screens, your cellphone becomes a game controller, and all you have to do is call the phone number posted on the screen and you’re playing video games on the side of a building.

Recently, Palo Alto based product engineering firm MindTribe has placed a 65″ plasma screen in a front window with the same idea in mind. You dial the phone number on the screen and you are now playing a version of Tetris while standing in the middle of the sidewalk (and it’s free). Bonus: if you get a high score, your snapshot goes up on their website.

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Doughnuts.
Friday June 6th, 2008.
Free!

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Technically we still have several weeks to go . . . but if the temperatures are already at 90º, then Summer is here.

Time for a wallpaper change. Going with a Summer theme.

Here’s a nice “Fresh Grass” front lawn wallpaper (by SoftBend) and “June” field of grass wallpaper (by Frank De Graeve) from Pixelgirl Presents.

Now I need to find dog poop icons.

(thanks to Gorilla Sushi for the tip)

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The Typorganism ASCII-o-matic:

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What to watch instead of watching people embarrass themselves on national TV:

• The Michael Showalter Show(alter)

• Wainy Days

• The Cute Show

• Channel Frederator

• The Onion

• The Defenders of Stan

• Suck My News

• Cool Hunting

• Derek and Simon: The Show

• New Scientist

• The Mortified Shoebox Show

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For nearly a year now, Doritos has been subjecting us to flavor experiments.

The last Doritos “flavor experiment” I tried tasted like David Hasselhoff’s mouth.

But now they’re getting cool about it. To promote their newest experimental flavor, they have unleashed “Doritos the Quest” - an online game that has I.Q. test/problem-solving puzzles akin to Myst or Riven.

The game will be released in four parts (part 2 will come out in a week) - the grand prize winner will receive “$100,000 in treasure.” It appears that the finalists will actually have to physically compete for the grand prize - a la obstacle course, etc. - as stated in the game rules.

I really hope the grand prize isn’t a $100,000 golden corn chip.

(via notcot)

Bonus Round: Triangle Mystery

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Instead of just 1 mashup this month, you instead get 7. That’s right, seven. I present to you The Shoot Back Mixtape - a collaboration with troublmedia.com.

Three police officers shot Sean Bell 50 times, killing him on the eve of his wedding night, and wounding his two passengers, later determining that all 3 men were unarmed. From the night of this social atrocity to the not guilty verdict 10 days ago, emotions have been fierce. Sadness. Anger. Frustration. Disgust. Fear.

Download The Shoot Back Mixtape, a collection of voices and speeches that convey the public discontent following the not guilty verdict awarded to the police officers who killed Bell.

Here’s the first track to whet your appetite. In the words of a protester speaking for Sean Bell: “It’s not about what you do today, but what you do tomorrow.”

 

 Not Guilty - Johnny Haze: Play Now | Play in Popup

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