The deafening silence coming from this blog is me, playing World of Warcraft. I'm happily escaping the real world and living in an online fantasy world for a time.



A friend turned me on to Garfield Minus Garfield, someone's clever idea of removing Garfield from Garfield comics: Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness in a quiet American suburb.

Crayon Physics

What if everything you drew with a crayon took on weight and followed the laws of physics? This mindblowing game lets you play with the concept.



Crayon Physics Deluxe.

Spore Is Almost Here

People of all ages have been eagerly looking forward to Spore, the newest project by Maxis, the makers of the hugely popular game, The Sims. The new evolution simulation game has been in development for three or four years, and folks had begun to refer to the project as vaporware. Well, the good news is that they have announced a release date of September 7!

Creator Will Wright promises that the game will be forgiving of non-gamers, allowing them to succeed without requiring hard-core gaming experience. You start out as a cell, gobbling up other creatures and evolving form and abilities, until as a land creature, you get to design your beast to compete for survival.



Maxis is banking on the creature creator being a big attraction, and has lots of plans for this portion of the game, including a separate Nintendo DS release of the creator.

In the tribe stage, you equip your beasts with tools and guide the tribe in warring with other tribes for dominance. Eventually, you'll have a developed civilization which will need your intervention to survive, which ultimately leads to what might be the best part, space travel and exploration of other planets, civilizations, and dominance of the universe.



Wired has provided an interesting preview of Spore, and you can see more screenshots at the Spore website.

It looks to be something fun for kids and adults, but I'm hoping they haven't gone too far in simplifying the game for it to be a challenge to gamers. Either way, it's on my to-buy list.

Of course, evangelical scientists are bound to refute the game's central premise, just as evangelical scientists refuted gravity with new 'Intelligent Falling' Theory.

Word Sandwich

If you like word games, I bet you'll become addicted to Word Sandwich. The rules are easy. The object is to guess the mystery five letter word. Your guesses will float to the top if they are too “high” in alphabetical order, and they will float to the bottom if they are too “low” in alphabetical order. Don't give up if you don't get the point right away, you'll catch on. Muaaahaaa!