BOARD-GAME RENAISSANCE

from More Intelligent Life:

The recession has encouraged many to reconsider the joys of playing with cardboard and plastic pieces. Alexander Ewing sets some ground rules ...

Un-Dead Timewasters from NRO

Click here for bumlee...and here for zombies...and here for the eyeballing game (my score 3.79)

timewaster blurb...Find the gnomes.

Mouse through the various scenes and see if you can find 10 gnomes in 10 minutes. Start here.

Game blurb...3D Hangman

For the spelling bee champions or maybe an enemy gift for the bad spellers in your life. 3D Hangman. You add limbs to the guy until you get the word right or there is a dead man on your table. Of course you can just play one of the many online versions here

game blurb...revo

"The streamlined approach to Revo brings out both the games best and worst qualities. On the plus side, you have a racing game that concentrates on just that: the racing. On the other side, the game's lack of depth is exposed, limiting its replay value. This is the kind of title that is perfect for the gamer who likes to pick up a racer and hit the road."from SI.com

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I've always liked the hand slap game...probably cus I was decent at it...otherwise I'd have hated it. This short video is amusing...

via videosift.com

game blurb folllow up...Rubik's cube solve 10.56 seconds

game blurb...Halo

from Dick Staub: "The fear of irrelevance is palpable in the evangelical church...any means is justifiable to reach a target audience as long as it is followed by a simple gospel presentation. To reach an edgy audience, so the argument goes, one must employ edgy means. The problem is not the proverbial "them." It's us. Marty O;Donnell, one of the creators of Halo and himself a Christian agrees... Once again (I believe) the modern evangelical church has misinterpreted Christ’s injunction to be “fishers of men”.

Having Halo night at the local church building is about the same as having ultimate frizzbee night. I would prefer to see youth pastors and other Christians seeking people out wherever they happen to be rather than trying to get “kids into the building” so they can give them the good news. When Jesus spoke to the woman at the well it wasn’t some sort of “bait and switch”. The Church is the body of Christ not a building…"

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NINTENDO UNVEILS EXERCISE GAME

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CONTEST OF THE WEEK.
Duration: one week.
Prize: Paramore CD.
Criteria: highest score on Asteroids played this week. Post to Commenst your high score

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HUNGARY HOSTS RUBIK'S CUBE CHAMPIONSHIP.
from the AP: "The mechanical puzzle, invented in 1974 by engineer Erno Rubik, sparked a global craze in the early 1980s. An estimated 9 million cubes were sold last year, taking the all-time total to more than 300 million units...The current world record for solving the 3x3 cube — which has six sides of a different color with nine tiles each on each side — is 9.86 seconds, set by Thibaut Jacquinot of France in May at the Spanish Open..."There's a lot of cube literature on the Internet, with people sharing moves and techniques..Matyas Kuti, 14, is one of the host country's biggest hopes for a top finish. Kuti is considered a master of the blindfolded event in which he has set 11 world records and has 24 first-place competition finishes." Learn how to do Rubiks cube here.