Starcraft

If you've been reading my Twitter, you know that I've been trying to play StarCraft for the first time in my life.

Trying being the opportune word.

I've got the basic strategy down, I've been able to get a bunch of guys, I've even gotten 30 Goliaths at one time, but for some reason, the computer always seems to have a combat advantage equivalent to sending a squad of gunmen into a sniper ambush (which is another one of my pet peeves). The enemy also almost always seems to outnumber me at least 2 to 1, and to date I haven't even managed to win one encounter (an encounter meaning just a 30-second battle between my guys and the computer's guys).

Maybe I should just wait for Starcraft II. They say it's supposed to be easier on the newbies.

So sue me

Slow news day, so I'm leaving you today with a video of a bird stealing Doritos.

http://failblog.org/2010/02/22/shoplifting-win/

Linky Linky (part deux)

I'm feeling a bit lazy today, so today's gonna be another link day.

For those physics geeks, like me: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/what-is-time/

Now, as a rule, I stay away from card games other than poker and blackjack. But this is a pretty fun game: http://www.kongregate.com/games/zanzarino/elements

Fail: http://failblog.org/2010/02/26/celebration-fail/

And, finally, I recommend you to try out the YouTube HTML5 beta. For those of you who are frustrated with the CPU-sucking Flash, this is a pretty good improvement over YouTube's current player: http://www.youtube.com/html5

That's it for now, I'll see you all tomorrow!

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