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In Spin The Black Circle, you spin the puzzle around and try to get the black circle to fall into the right spot. Does that sound exciting? Because it is. It really is.

Labels: fun, games, puzzles

Did you ever wonder what Super Mario Bros. would look like in the style of Stalinist Soviet propaganda? I know I have.

Labels: fun, games, video

Another addicting game that's difficult to describe, takes minutes to learn, and a lifetime to master!

Labels: fun, games

My kids love Word Girl.

First they found her on the Internet.

Then they found her in 5-minute shorts at the end of their PBS cartoons.

Then they discovered that she's getting her own full-length show this fall.

Then I found her on the Internet.

It's a vicious cycle.

NYT on Word Girl

Jim Lehrer Interviews Word Girl

Labels: fun, kids, tv

It looks like an old card game from the 60s, and it really ate up my afternoon. Just place cards on the board in such a way that your guests are sitting next to people they like.

Labels: fun, games

"You come to me as Beginners. When I'm through with you, you'll be Experts!"

Labels: fun, games, movies

You type in words, and then they sing it for you.

I could play with this for hours. It's fun to see how many songs you can recognize from just one word.

Labels: audio, fun

I have been looking for this for a long time, a way to play the old Oregon Trail game that we all played on Apples in elementary school. I've download stuff and tried to get it to run with no success. There are more modern versions available which are no good.

Now someone has set up a Virtual Apple II emulator that lets you play Oregon Trail on the web. I think you have to have Windows and Firefox for it to work.

(By the way, I found the link at MentalFloss, another highly recommended site.)

Watch out for dysentery!

Labels: fun, games, old school

It's a sport where you throw a ball at someone's face.

It strikes me as an office-friendly version of Crotchball.

I've seen the flickr group before, but I didn't know they had such a slick website. Be sure to watch the instructional video.

Labels: fun, sports

In 1947 Life Magazine asked some cartoon artists to draw their characters while blindfolded. The results are pretty cool.

Labels: art, fun

In this game, you try to break as many plates as possible with an invisible cursor.

Sounds weird, but it's pretty wild. 40 is my best so far.

Labels: fun, games

Another simple flash puzzle game, mostly I like this one for the music.

Labels: fun, games

Traffic reporting while under the influence of cold medicine.

I hear this is getting a lot of play in Utah.

(Via dooce.)

Labels: audio, fun

We've all seen these before, but I thought this one was particularly impressive. My favorite part was the use of the cell phone.

Labels: fun, video

So this guy wants to create a video of Michael Jackson's live performance of Billy Jean, that's just his white glove, right?

And instead of writing a program that looks at every video frame and isolates the glove, he figures it would be easier to get 10,000 or so people on the internet to do the work for him.

So if you want to help him out, go to White Glove Tracking, draw a box around a white glove, and click to submit the frame. Hey, do two or three while you're at it--it's fun!

Labels: fun, internet

There's no point to this, as far as I can tell. You just have to try and see what you can do. For some reason, it's fun.

Labels: fun, internet

This is frustrating to watch--I can't imagine how nerve-wracking it would be to play.

Basically, it's a video of someone trying to complete one level in Super Mario Bros. that is so impossibly hard it can only be called evil.

E-Vil, like the fru-Its of the De-Vil, e-Vil.

Labels: fun, games, video

Yet another Flash game. This one is called Disorientation, and it's just what it says: disorienting. All you have to do is move your guy from point A to point B, but the board tends to move around in ways that make that more difficult than it sounds.

Labels: fun, games

Ok, I've been reading xkcd for I don't know how long, maybe a year. Just today I noticed that if you hover your mouse pointer over the comic for a second, the title of the image pops up as a comment. It's like a second punchline for every joke!

For example, in this comic about Ender's Game, the comment says, "Bean actually sabotaged it just to give Dink the excuse to make that joke."

Has anyone else noticed this? Am I the last to know?

Now I feel like I need to go back to the beginning and read every single one.

Again.

By the way, if some of them are too long to read, you can see the entire text by right-clicking on the image and going to Properties.

Labels: comics, fun

I give you three videos of a samurai sword in action.

Those things look pretty sharp.

(Apparently this is what TV is like. In Japan.)

Labels: fun, video