brainless wonder
When I get tired of working and packing all my boxes and doing all the stuff I
should be doing, sometimes I need to go sort of braindead for a while. TV is good for this, but I've been in an anti-TV mood lately. So I've been playing this little game called
Magic Punk. It's kind of like Tetris or Super Puzzle Fighter, but you play online (against what I'm sure are probably 12 year olds in another time zone, and not almost-29-year-olds who should be planning their cross-country move).
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Ten percent of British people kind of suck
According to this CNN article, one in 10 Britons admits to
dumping someone by text message. Maybe this is why British people need those
text message affirmations?
I wonder what the statistics for this kind of thing would be in the United States. None of my friends are big text-message users (or if they are, they just don't send messages to me!) so I can't imagine this is as popular here. Unless they're surveying the pre-teen set, maybe?
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Build a Robot

If you don't like that robot on the right, you can try
making your own.
That's a little Flash thing I've been playing around with. I realize it would be more fun if you could resize and rotate the shapes, or maybe even change the colors. It would also be better if you could save the finished image or email it to yourself or a friend. But those things are more complicated, and this was really just something I was working on as a distraction. So play with it if you want, but don't complain, okay?!
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Old cell phones aren't worthless!
My friend was shopping for a new cell phone the other day and I told her not to throw the old one away because a) cell phones have all kinds of toxic crap inside that shouldn't end up in a landfill, and b) even if an old cell phone is big and clunky, you can donate it to charity. Here's a
Wired News article that talks about both things, and lists some places where you can donate old cell phones.