I occasionally come across some odd things when perusing patterns, but this afghan looks like Q-Bert is going to land on it any minute:

Tumbling Blocks Afghan

Sometimes, I'm grateful that I only know how to crochet (this one's for knitters).

My sweetiepie shared this link with me. A large slice of my waking time in the Eighties outside of school was spent playing video games whenever I had the opportunity. I remember going to the skating rink was a big deal because they had Centipede there. I used to rule at Ms. Pac Man in the local college snack bar - my initials were in the high ( Read more... )

World of Goo for the Wii seems to be getting good reviews. Have any of you played it?

I know it's sort of "welcome to 1999," but I finally got to play Dance Dance Revolution for the first time yesterday. Quite fun! I might have to pick it up for the Wii. I could see it being good exercise.

... and wait for this one on the Wii instead:

Star Wars: Clone Wars

So, David found a Wii last week, and brought it home.

What an amazing little machine. What a paradigm shift in consumer level interaction with a computer.

I've been slow to return to consoles. I was an Atari kid and a NES college student. I loved Super Mario Bros. 3 and The Legend of Zelda. However, after I got a computer, it became hard to ( Read more... )

I need to quit procrastinating and get the day started, but I just had to post this:

Nintendo awesomeness

Okay, you'd have to be about my age and have played games like the Legend of Zelda series and A Boy and His Blob on the original Nintendo . . . but if you did, you, too, might find this parody of MySpace featuring characters from Hyrule very amusing.

(Courtesy of MetaFilter.)

The third of streamweaver's questions.

What is it you think sets women gamers apart from other gamers, and what specific issues aren't being addressed by the industry for women?

( Question 3 - click here for Banshee's response )