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"So, forget Toastmasters. If you really want to learn some valuable lessons, learn to be a comic."

I don’t know much about games, but I do know that I enjoy some games, and I don’t enjoy others. And another thing I’ve noticed is that the games I like to play don’t always have the flashiest graphics, the coolest sound effects, or the most modern gameplay and interfaces. Which is all to say that I like to play some older games, and even though they aren’t the flashiest, coolest, or most modern, they are still fun to play. Turns out, people 7 or 10 years ago could still write compelling stories, construct fun and clever game mechanics, and overall create great games.

Here is the list of my top 7 favorite games from Abandonia:

Charles Miller provides smart definitions of what programmers mean when they say “impossible”, “trivial”, “unfeasible”, “non-trivial”, “hard” and “very hard”.

Jens Alfke: "I once had the idea of a charity that would collect discarded [bluetooth] headsets from yuppies and distribute them to mentally ill homeless people. Just by wearing the headsets, they would eliminate the social stigma attached to talking to themselves on the street; this would help re-integrate them into society." Brilliant.

Honestly, don’t ever use any of these. For anything.

Simon Willison writes “Six cool things you can build with OpenID”. He suggests some site-specific hacks for OpenID, including a Last.FM mashup. [Martin Atkins][] [comments][ma comments] that a neutral method of exchanging this information would be nice, and suggests, of course, RDF. But what should we use as a URI? Why not use [Wikipedia][] URIs? They are a public resource, after all.