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Archive for December, 2010

GET: Boardgame Remix

Board games are fun. Except when they’re not. Once that happens (read: after you’ve played them once or twice) don’t retired them… remix them!  Just a couple bucks takes home the Boardgame Remix book or iPhone app and retools just about every game currently crammed in your cupboard. Monopoly gets made-over. Scrabble gets scrambled. And Clue becomes a Zombie strategy game. Boom.

LINK: BoardGameRemix via BoingBoing.

PLAY: Record Tripping

It won a Webby award because it’s fun. Massively. You’re going to need a mouse with a scroll wheel to play though. Oh, you’ve got one already? Good. Click the pic to make the jump.

LINK: Recordtripping.

WATCH: Ready Set Bag

Think you’ve got skills in the check-out line? These champions have it in the bag. Ok though, really, all puns aside, this documentary looks amazing. Competitive bagging? How fun is that?

LINK: via Neatorama.

QUICK: How About We

Looking for a fun date? Instead of choosing the person by their picture – boobs! -  then trying to convince them to do whatever it is you think would be a good time, why not suggest the date and see who rasies their hand. Oh my god, this is so smart it hurts. Put the date back in dating. Invent fun dates. Ask each other out. Do something awesome.

LINK: Howaboutwe.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR: WIRED Store


WHEN:
November 19th – December 26th, Wednesdays through Sundays, 11AM – 7PM
WHERE: 692 Broadway NYC
WHAT: “The WIRED Store is not just a shopping destination – it’s an interactive experience that allows you to touch, test and tinker with the most “wired” products out there for the digital gentleman, gadget girl, gastronaut, smarter upstarter, adventure capitalist, maker, or culturazzo in your life. Stop by to shop and share what you find with friends and family”… No really though, it’s a room filled with mega-fun, super high-tech toys you’re allowed to play with. There’s a giant pipe-organ-y-thing and Buckyballs and they want you to touch ‘em both!

LINK: Wiredstore.

GET: Ugly Sweater T-Shirts

Wearing an ugly sweater this time of year takes commitment. An Ugly Sweater T-Shirt? Not so much. Fun.

LINK: Vardagen via Swissmiss.

PLAY: Nimball Rewind


Roll through each level in the quickest time possible. If you make a mistake, hit the space bar to rewind time. First though, click the pic to make the jump.

LINK: Notdoppler.

WATCH: Matisyahu Hanukkah Song

Last night was the last night of Hanukkah. The biggest miracle I witnessed? Somehow watching this video  became a nightly tradition in my parents house. My 60+ year old parents. No, really. Can you blame them though? Everything is funner on ice.

QUICK: Centipede A Friend’s Profile

Here’s how it’s done:

1 – Upload this picture to your profile 5 times.

2 – Tag the same friend in each picture.

3 – See how long it takes them to realize.

Not comfortable with the Human Centipede reference? Thanks to the new Facebook profile layout there’s tons of other things you could do. Hell write a message across the top a friends profile by tagging them in 5 different pictures with 5 different words in them. You can get creative by taking a pictures of yourself holding a sheets of paper with each word on it.

Something tells me you’re about to be seeing a lot of this type of thing in the near future. Especially if we’re friends on Facebook.

LINK: via Buzzfeed.

GET: See Something, Skate Something

Someone’s been putting up these very clever posters all over my neighborhood (Williamsburg NYC). They’re based on the “If You See Something, Say Something” NYC subway campaign. Fun, right? Looks like they’re available for sale as well.

Sadly, the number doesn’t want to ring through to anything.

LINK: Skatesomething.