Jonathan Riggall

Scary Girl: The biggest, best browser game so far?

If you’re looking for high production values for nothing, check out Scary Girl. This free online game is one of the biggest, and slickest efforts I’ve ever seen.

OnSoftware Daily Digest

OnSoftware Daily Digest

Does the cloud kill privacy?

Andrew Brown, writing in The Guardian, thinks Facebook, Google and cloud-ish based information applications like Evernote are posing major threats to our privacy.

Thursday timewaster: Effing Hail

Whenever I have five minutes to spare, it’s always nice to play at being an angry and vengeful god! You can too with Effing Hail. It’s a great mix of weather and destruction: You control the wind, and use it to blow hail around and make it grow to ridiculous sizes before hurling it at your chosen target. There are houses, planes, skyscrapers pedestrians and more to dispatch. The game is timed, and there are online scoreboards so you can prove who’s really the baddest weatherman out there.

OnSoftware Daily Digest

OnSoftware Daily Digest

OnSoftware Daily Digest

Friday timewaster: Red Star Fall

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Do video games warp our hands? [Eurogamer]

Shouttr: a noisy step too far for Twitter?

We love checking out Twitter clients. From Firefox add-ons to iPhone apps, Twitter seems to be the web service that is attracting the most creative development. In fact, does anyone tweet from the Twitter homepage anymore?

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Wikipedia running out of facts? [NY Times]