http://gibberish.sidewhites.com Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:25:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OK slackers, I know you depend on these games to keep you entertained so I'm doing my best here. Sadly, parenting obligations and increased activity at work have stemmed the tide of posts from your fearless blogger. Take heart! Your game awaits. Cute Planet Puzzle is, um, a cute variation on ... http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/2008/12/friday-fun-n-games-cute-planet-puzzle/ We're back with our semi-regular offering of casual games for your casual Friday. Today's game, a simple but devious little puzzle game that gets pretty hard pretty quick. In enDice, the trick is to move the dice into their outlined homes on the board by clicking and dragging. The number ... http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/2008/12/friday-fun-n-games-endice/ After a brief sabbatical from my sidewhites duties, I return this week with a fine Italian offering of familial turmoil and decay, with undertones of incest, overtones of matricide and fratricide, dashes of slapstick, and a protagonist plagued by migraines and epilepsy. Appropriate holiday fare, no? Marco Bellocchio’s Fists in ... http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/2008/12/fists-in-the-pocket/ Well, we've ditched the scuba gear and bailed out the library. And so the triumphant return of the Friday Fun 'n' Games. We favor puzzle oriented games here, and today's not different. In Splitter, your object is to get the smiley face from point A to portal B. At your ... http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/2008/11/friday-fun-n-games-splitter/ I arrived at my place of employment this morning to the sounds of dripping water and visions of soaked books. Apparently our roof has been leaky since the building, but rather than replace it the county has been repairing it piecemeal for years. Last week another crew came in to "fix" ... http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/2008/11/swimming-in-the-stacks/ After a week or so of radio silence due to vacation and no internet access, the Fun 'n Games is back! We submit to you 99 Blocks, an interesting take on the classic game of Tetris. Instead of lining up blocks to make the disappear, the blocks stay on the ... http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/2008/11/friday-fun-n-games-99-bricks/ OK, we're back to our regularly scheduled cynicism this afternoon. I couln't pass up the chance to put this dandy bit of video editing in front of a few more eyeballs. Using their own words against each other, John McCain and Sarah Palin debate each other for the future opportunity ... http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/2008/11/but-not-that-much-change/ Feeling fairly confident of a Democtratic victory around 8 PM last night I began rehearsing in my mind the snarky witticisms with which I would open my gloating victory post. But after staying up to hear Barack Obama's pitch perfect victory speech I was left with no lingering animosity and ... http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/2008/11/change-has-come-to-america/ Did you ever want to be a cow boy or girl? Do you crave the satisfaction of herding things into smaller and smaller spaces? Well then Shrink is the game for you. You are a assigned to shrink the outer box around the bouncing squares until it reaches a predetermined ... http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/2008/10/friday-fun-n-games-shrink/ As my close associates (and attentive readers of this blog) know, I heart Thomas Pynchon. I heart him in all his obfuscationist, unravelably dense glory. So I take joy in both the photo and the news to be had below. First, the news - looks like our inimitable author is ... http://gibberish.sidewhites.com/2008/10/my-other-car-is-a-pynchon-novel/