Quick Hits: Games You Should Be Playing

There sure are a lot of good-looking girls at the beach in LA. Hey, I'm just sayin'.
More fun than a rampaging pack of Zebranskys! The best game ever packed into 11 megabytes is now available as a free download for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Cinematics are broken, pretty much everything else works great. God bless open source.^[1]
Rummaging through the iTunes Music store is just way too much fun. Anyone remember Shriekback? I do.

Just don't browse iTunes while tipsy, or you might end up buying more cheesy music than is safe for human consumption. Ah-WHOA! I just died in your arms tonight! Damnit.
Dynegy crook treated unfairly! Actually, the article is really about the unfairness of minimum mandatory sentencing. Still, it is puzzling that the crook in question is described as a "middle-level manager" (he was a VP) who "did not personally profit from his crime" (umm, no).

You know... I like to think that Evil is nuanced. Real villains aren't cartoon characters. A book that has the bad guys sitting around and cackling about how evil they are can be immediately discounted as hokey and unrealistic. Right? So why can't real-life bad guys live up to literary standards?
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Words to live by, especially when your company softball team is coming off a season-opening 17-1 loss.^[2]

1. For more time-wasting pleasure, there's a remake of the classic Avalon Hill boardgame Titan. God bless open source and Java.

2. Unfortunately we can't use "Wait 'till next year!" for at least a couple of months.

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