This is the Only Level. Totally fantastic. It doesn’t look like much, but so addictive. It took me 18 minutes and 14 seconds to complete, with 122 deaths. Don’t read any instructions, just see if you can figure it out.
The parkour Flash game: Mirror’s Edge 2D. Great body motion and physics.
More fascinating stuff from the OkCupid numbers crunchers: The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures. For example, does showing ripped abs help a guy get messages on the dating site? How about boobs for women? And how do those number change with age, and do they change the same way? All kinds of questions like that. Great stuff.
(For the guys, it looks like doing a one-arm handstand in front of the Eiffel Tower while reading Tolstoy with your other hand (and therefore not making eye contact with the viewer), with your washboard abs “accidentally” exposed due to gravity is the way to go. Diminishing returns on the abs as you approach 30 though.)
Cool Tools links up some no-knead bread resources, and the comments come alive with alternate approaches. I’m definitely going to have to try the recipe suggested in brad’s comment.
This open letter from OK Go, in explaining why their new video can’t be embedded, pretty well covers the state of the music industry (incidentally, the video is great). (via waxy)
First-Person Tetris: all seems well and good until you hit the space bar to rotate. Whoa.
When my daughters start dating, and we talk about it, I may lead with this, what boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google. That’s it in a nutshell, right there. Sigh.
Genius, 12-section comic, Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable, with each of the 12 sections being both hysterical and the gospel truth.
Google has been censoring search results in China so they would be allowed to operate in that country. Now, after a series of hack attempts apparently targeting human rights activist accounts, Google has decided to stop censoring search results. Carefully worded, but they clearly say without saying that the Chinese government was behind the attacks! More at the NY Times.
Woo-hoo, Netflix streaming is coming to the Wii this spring! Hit this Netflix page to reserve the free disc you’ll need to insert to access the service.
