It may only be January, but it’s never too early to get reminded about Pizza Month. I stumbled upon this hilarious snapshot of life from the other Sean Taylor, and it was just too classic not to share.
Skeeball Bonus Round: If you love skeeball and you’re in the New York area, check out Brewskee-Ball, the first ever competitive skee-ball league, held at Brooklyn’s Full Circle Bar!
Billed as “the greatest Hanukkah gift of all time” — and I’m not necessarily disagreeing — the Spinagogue reinvents the Jewish game of dreidel in a modern way, that people of all faiths can appreciate. In fact, who doesn’t like spinning a dreidel, particularly when you get to spin it on the moon or on a skeeball lane?
Schmaltz & Latke Bonus Round: Buy your tickets for Major League Dreidel 2009, to be held on December 12 at New York’s Knitting Factory, and check out scenes from MLD 2008:
To pre-order your Spinagogue for Hannukah 2009, visit ModernTribe.com, and for more information about Major League Dreidel, hit up League Knishioner, Eric Harris Pavony.
Happy Monday!
Enjoy “Don’t Sh*t Your Pants,” an amusing flash game that just might be NSFW. It’s not too gross or anything, but your boss might wonder what you are doing if he/she walks by. So click the below image to play at your own risk.
(via Kongregate.com)
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.
Flagella Bonus Round:
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.
The alternate title for this post:
“What I Have Been Doing for the Last Three Days Instead of Cleaning My Apartment, Socializing, Sleeping, Posting on Blogadilla, or Bathing.”
Before I continue, I am obligated to say the following because I am using EA Game’s graphics kit:
“This site is not endorsed by or affiliated with Electronic Arts, or its licensors. Trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Game content and materials copyright Electronic Arts Inc. and its licensors. All Rights Reserved.”
Released September 7th, Spore is an elegant combination of different types of gameplay with one grand theme: start as a single-celled organism, evolve, become intelligent, and eventually conquer fight your way to the center of the galaxy. It is available for a number of different platforms and Spore Origins (just the single-celled organism game) is available for mobile phones.
Based upon the number of hours of my life it has consumed to date, I give Spore a 5 out of 5.
Some highlights:
• You decide on the direction of your species’ evolution – become a carnivore, grow horns, evolve 6 arms, etc. I recommend you check out EA Games’ free downloadable Creature Creator.
• You go through the varying phases of social complexity – a social animal, a tribe society, a complex society, and eventually a galactic empire.
• The colonization of space appears to constitute over 95% of the entire game, and if you haven’t gotten that far yet, you still have so much more to look forward to!
Update 9/28/08:
I just finished the game.
I think.
It’s hard to tell if there’s more or not.
Update 9/29/08:
Now there is even a Spore Wiki.
If a portmanteau is a combination of two words, then chess-boxing is a sportmanteau.
You heard me right: this sport is a combination of chess and boxing. Started by the Hip-Hop Chess Federation (RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan is apparently a huge chess buff), competitors alternate in the ring between three-minute boxing rounds and four-minute rounds of speed chess. Between rounds, competitors only get a one-minute break to take off and put on gloves, and to ponder strategies with coaches. Ultimately, a winner is determined by knockout, checkmate, or referee decision. It’s hard to believe, but elite chessboxers claim the hardest part of the sport is not taking a beating in the boxing component, but rather, coming down from the adrenaline of boxing to be able to thoughtfully play chess. Check out the Time Magazine article on the sport.
Find out with decent accuracy (it worked for me, at least) the “age” of your brain with this cool applet from FlashFabrica. Just memorize the position of each number and then after they dissappear, click the circles in order from lowest number to highest. Fortunately, there is no need to brush up on your Chinese language skillz to play.
