SeaScape – Flash Game
SeaScape - Flash Game
Seascape is an underwater point and click adventure game, search for pearls, treasure and take photo’s of the marine life. Use the objects in your inventory to manipulate objects, pry things open, use the plasma cutter to cut through metal, etc…
Fish Truck – Flash Game
Fish Truck - Flash Game
Safely transport your fish while protecting them from the hungry birds. I would’ve liked to have seen more weapons and a greater variety of upgrades.
Is Stupid Making Us Google?
Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.” Sound familiar? Describing, in The Atlantic Monthly, his own struggles to keep his attention span from contracting like the wild ass’s skin in Balzac’s novel, Nicholas Carr cites a British study of research habits among visitors to two serious scholarly websites which suggests a more general problem: that “users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of ‘reading’ are emerging as users ‘power browse’ horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.”
Bowja The Ninja – Flash Game
Bowja The Ninja - Flash Game
This game was so close to being great. It had a great, cohesive style, it was animated well, the gameplay mechanic with the bow-and-arrow was fairly unique, it was funny, and the sound fit in perfectly. Unfortunately, it was just too easy.
Einstein’s 23 Biggest Mistakes
Einstein’s 23 Biggest Mistakes
The man with the big ideas wasn’t so good with the details. In Einstein’s Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius (W.W. Norton, $24.95, excerpted below), Hans Ohanian writes that Albert often let his intuition overrule flawed proofs and shaky math. Maybe you’ll feel a little better about your own flubs.
# 1905 – Mistake in the first proof of E = mc2
# 1906 – Mistakes in the second, third, and fourth proofs of E = mc2
# 1907 – Mistake in the synchronization procedure for accelerated clocks
# 1907 – Mistakes in the Principle of Equivalence of gravitation and acceleration
# 1911 – Mistake in the first calculation of the bending of light
# 1913 – Mistake in the first attempt at a theory of general relativity
# 1914 – Mistake in the fifth proof of E = mc2
Rocket-Man – Flash Game
Rocket-Man - Flash Game
Rocket-Man is a puzzle game with some unlockable extras to add to the replay value. Love the upbeat music and graphics are pleasing.
Bunnybounty – Flash Game
Bunnybounty - Flash Game
Bunnies are hungry for the farm crops that you’re hired to protect by utterly helpless farmers.