We love Tower Defense games here at DC..  This one is a real charmer: Attack of the Flurries.

I'm not sure why but this is actually the first Tower Defense game that features resource management that i've actually enjoyed.  It's got a really nice balance of simple gameplay with the ability to mine for gold and energy to power your towers.

Most of the time when i play a game like this i feel like i don't know what i'm doing and can't tell if what i'm doing is making any difference, but here i could see when i didnt have enough energy or money, etc.

Very nicely done and worth the time to learn.

http://summersungame...ackOfTheFurries.html

First impressions of the AerO₂bic Vertical Mouse

It's a "vertical" mouse aimed mainly at people who are having trouble with wrist/arm/shoulder related to using regular mouse.

well, I dont think anyone, excluding gamers(!), would pay this much for a mouse unless they're having trouble in some way related to the use of regular mouse. I should probably state at this stage that I do have problems with my left shoulder (I'm left handed). In the past I've had problems with my wrist, arm, elbow as well but not at the moment.

With this mouse, the hand actually rests completely on the mouse, thumb to top. You can move the mouse and leave the hand completely relaxed. I personally at this stage cant really say how good this is - I like it a lot but it reminds me of the first time I drove a car with 5 gears (as opposed to just 4) - I found it so incredibly difficult to do this little extra movement that I wasnt used to doing. Likewise now, I'm aware of muscles in my shoulder & down my back that probably have never made these specific movements ..

http://aerobicmouse.com

Some of these are fascinating. Attached is a scan but also linked is a typed up version which is much easier to read.

Predictions of the Year 2000
from The Ladies Home Journal  of December 1900

The Ladies Home Journal from December 1900, which contained a fascinating article by John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years”.

Mr. Watkins wrote: “These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible. Yet, they have come from the most learned and conservative minds in America. To the wisest and most careful men in our greatest institutions of science and learning I have gone, asking each in his turn to forecast for me what, in his opinion, will have been wrought in his own field of investigation before the dawn of 2001 - a century from now. These opinions I have carefully transcribed.”

-http://www.yorktownhistory.org/homepages/1900_predictions.htm

I will try to explain my needs simply.

I'm looking for a script/soft which search in a specific folder (and all subfolders) for this :

examplefile1.msf (file with .msf extension)
examplefile1 (file with no extension)
examplefile1.sbd (simple folder)

In this situation the script would be able to detect there is a folder which have the same of a file. (like in the example up there)
and the script would rename the "file1.msf" to "file1.msf.old"


 

This is quite simple and yet very fun.  Tip: HOLD the mouse button down to make larger bombs.

http://games.mochiad.../boombot/BoomBot.swf
(or http://www.ninjakiwi.../boombot/BoomBot.swf)

I have a brother laser printer and love it.. but it looks like next time it tells me it's out of ink i might just have to stage an intervention..

I bought a cheap laser printer a couple years ago, and for a while, it worked perfectly. The printer, a Brother HL-2040, was fast, quiet, and produced sheet after sheet of top-quality prints—until one day last year, when it suddenly stopped working. I consulted the user manual and discovered that the printer thought its toner cartridge was empty. It refused to print a thing until I replaced the cartridge. But I'm a toner miser: For as long as I've been using laser printers, it's been my policy to switch to a new cartridge at the last possible moment, when my printouts get as faint as archival copies of the Declaration of Independence. But my printer's pages hadn't been fading at all. Did it really need new toner—or was my printer lying to me?

http://www.slate.com/id/2198316/