Posts in the category “games”

There’s a really good article in this week’s New York Times Magazine on the hyperaddictive, time-sucking, relationship-busting, mind-crushing power and allure of silly digital games. (hat tip to @sprokolopolis)

#FridayFive: Toys

View the Friday Five from June 4th, 2010

I think I will stab myself in the stomach with a fork if one more person sends me a stray chicken or cat or whatever it is that people keep sending me; but it’s worth reading this seriously fascinating psychological analysis of why people play that annoying game.

#FridayFive: Monopoly Properties

View the Friday Five from February 26th, 2010

Adventures with Microsoft Support

In which Microsoft has me running around in circles

#FridayFive: Risk Territories

World domination is fun.

NCAA Football 10: Review

A review of the latest EA Sports NCAA College Football video game

#FridayFive: Classic Board Games

View the Friday Five from July 24th, 2009

#FridayFive: iPhone Games

View the Friday Five from June 19th, 2009

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davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.