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!

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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.

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(via Kongregate.com)

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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.

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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.

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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.

(via Phil, via Blattman)

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My sister buys a home and has a party.
I buy her a glow-in-the-dark Ouija Board as a housewarming present (useful around the home, no?).
It went something like this:

(Scene: Seven drunk people in the darkened empty livingroom of an old farmhouse, around 12:00AM.)

Us: “Oh great Ouija, can you hear us?”

Ouija: “YES”

Us: “Oh great Ouija, who are we speaking to?

Ouija: “YES”

Us: “Ouija, what is Jacob’s mother’s middle name?”

Ouija: “M-J-A-Z-A-Z-8″

Us: “Ouija, is there anything you want to tell us?”

Ouija: “YES”

Us: “What do you want to tell us?”

Ouija: “J-R-I-3-I-4-C”

(End scene)

Some observations:
• Ouija Boards often communicate with the living through license plate numbers.
• Some Ouija Boards might need “calibration” – though I’m not sure how to do it.
• Perhaps Ouija Boards can be drunk. Or deaf. Or illiterate.
• When returning a Ouija Board to Toys-R-Us, don’t tell them that you think it’s defective and you’d like to exchange it for one with “stronger spiritual powers.”

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• A gallery of Ouija boards
• Handmade Ouija boards
• Antique Ouija boards
• Turning your iPod into a Ouija board
• And this awesome graphic by Jeffrey Rowland
(at Overcompensating.com)

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