How’s Your Willpower? Friday Links for 9/25/2009
I am going to provide you two sets of links today. One set of links you should
not click if you want to be anything resembling productive; the other you can click and still salvage your workday.
The first set comes to you courtesy of Jason Kottke, who has decided to post some of the most addictive Flash games on the Internet on a single page. Games like Hedgehog Launch 1 and 2, Shields of Gemland, Max Damage, and UPGRADE COMPLETE will devour your day faster than Usain Bolt tears through the 40. If you have willpower and can make yourself stop upgrading your hedgehog thrusters, check them out. If you’re prone to losing hours on end in good games, don’t go here. Here’s the bonus link – if you’re looking for a job in iGaming. It won’t be just a flesh wound.
The other set of links, however, is pure brilliance offered by the Internet, and you should click them if you’re interested in such mundane things as society, life and culture.
- The New Yorker reviews Dan Brown’s latest book, The Lost Symbol. In the interest of full disclosure, I will tell you that I think Brown is one of the worst writers I’ve ever seen in print. In that context, this review isn’t as bad as it could be.
- The ultimate productivity blog. As a self-professed GTD flunkie, this is easily the least-complicated version of any productivity system I’ve seen.
- Merlin Mann celebrates writing and the sentences he loves. Required reading for any self-respecting word geek.
- Chrome Frame is Google’s way to inject Chrome’s rendering engine (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) inside of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (versions 6, 7 and 8.x) so users can switch to Chrome’s performance and standards-compliance effortlessly. This is all done without haxies or trickery, using documented and supported APIs. If you don’t get the magnitude of this move by Google, I’ll just put it this way: it’s massive. Check out the Acid3 performance delta.
- Rafe over at RC3.org makes a well-reasoned argument for buying your developers nice hardware.
- Finally, a live interview over on Reddit with a $30M lottery winner. Fascinating reading.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
