Autostraddle Picks the Best Games of 2010
Team Technostraddle looks back on an awesome year of gaming. And then our thumbs fell off.
Google Introduces Ngram Viewer, Time Travel for Bookworms and Word Nerds
Boy does Google have a treat in store for you word nerds, bookworms and history buffs! Meet the Google Ngram Viewer, a way to search hundreds of years of the written word, or at least 4% of published books from 1500-2008. Not only that, but you can chart words and trends against each other instantly. Be right back, I’ve gotta play with this for 100+ hours.
We Are Lesbian Tumblr in 57 Parts
why don’t we do it in the bathtub?
7 Best Internet Productivity Tools: Build A Better Online Life, Fix Your Problems
Whether you’re as obsessive about organizing your online presence as Rachel and Taylor are or still getting the hang of it, you’re sure to find at least one of these sites and/or apps useful. Workflowy for neurotic list lovers, Pinterest for magpie collectors of shiny things, Instapaper for a little light reading – take your pick!
WoW Cataclysm Resources and (New) Auto Guild Info
Get ’em while they’re hot!
It’s Cataclysm WoW Guild Go Time: Let’s Do This Thing, Autostraddle
Let’s figure out our World of Warcraft guild for Cataclysm so we’ll be ready to roll come Tuesday! Remember how you wanted to do that? Discuss within!
Laura’s Team Pick: The Joy of Stats
Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card.
Minecraft Review: Down the Rabbit Hole and Back Again, Kind Of
Minecraft is all of your favorite things rolled into one affordable, compact package that gets hardlined right into your dopamine receptors and it stays there forever, I’m not joking.
State of the Gamer Union
Come discuss the one million gaming releases that will certainly lead to our collective system failures.
Super Meat Boy Cures 99% of NES Mario Nostalgia
Okay, maybe not 99%, but this game could probably cure cancer.
Metroid: Other M Review, Where’s the Samus We Know and Love?
In which Kim’s disappointment-fueled tears subside long enough for her to tell you why Metroid: Other M makes her cry disappointment-fueled tears.
Sarah’s Team Pick: THIS ANIMAL IS AWESOME
I want to be best friends with the person who runs thisanimalisawesome.tumblr.com. Or at least meet them. I bet they’re pretty awesome.
Jess’s Team Pick: AudioMole NYC
Find and track awesome underground/street music, art, performance and goods in and around New York City.
6 Reasons I Can’t Play Medal Of Honor (CARTOON)
A cartoon about Medal of Honor that I’m sure you will relate to.
Padmapper: Apartment Hunt Like A Pro #tipsandtricks
Meet Padmapper, an absolutely essential (free!) apartment hunting tool. Not apartment hunting right now? Bookmark this shit. It will change your life. You’ll never look at Craigslist (the same way) again.
OPEN THREAD: Fall Video Games, Spike Your Cider and Ready Your Thumbs
Wherein you shout to the high heavens about the absolute smorgasbord of video games headed your way this fall!
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, 5 Reasons to Freak Out Until December 7th
The cat’s outta the bag: World of Warcraft’s long-awaited Cataclysm expansion will wreak havoc on your love life/hit stores on December 7th! Here are the top 5 reasons why I probably won’t shower until January 2011.
Top 5 Gaming Podcasts To Light Your Fire, Stoke Your Escapist Inclinations
The lovely, talented and possibly ambidextrous guest contributor, Danielle, gives us the low-down on the best gaming podcasts so we can all go into tiny escapist cocoons and ride out the storm. Thanks, Danielle!
Editor’s Team Pick: Typical Incendiary Blog Post
“This sentence contains a provocative statement that attracts the readers’ attention, but really only has very little to do with the topic of the blog post. This sentence claims to follow logically from the first sentence, though the connection is actually rather tenuous.”
Google Instant Debuts, Instantly Excludes Lesbians
Ever try to search for lesbian-friendly content on Google and come up short? Us too, and the new Google Instant excludes lesbians altogether. Lesbians queer sex hot sexy lesbians sexy sex.