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Monopoles is out, once again, earlier than other weekly link blogs.

Dino Run
“I can say without hesitation that the Big Black Wall of Doom is among the most harrowing presences I’ve ever encountered in video games” on Metafilter. For the record, the “Wall of Doom” is the only thing in the game that hurts you, and is properly called a pyroclastic flow.

Chronotron
The tutorial explains it better than words can, but you basically use time travel to cooperate with your past selves in completing the levels. It gets a little tedious when waiting around for you slow-assed past selves to finish up what they’re doing. Also, kongregate does that weird cross-site time-warp with Facebook, so watch out if you don’t want your friends to know you play flash games on the internet. Finally, as always, watch out for paradoxes.

Custom File Formats in Cocoa
For the nth time Matt Long posts a spectacular, time-saving, hand-holding, super-insightful Cocoa tutorial about a month after I figured it out myself, the hard way.

“Iron Man”
“Hollywood will think that the public loves Iron Man because it is a superhero movie, a fantasy in which an ordinary person finds himself endowed with supernatural abilities. In fact, the public loves Iron Man because it is a rich-guy movie–a type of movie that offers the same kind of fantasy fulfillment without the supernatural nonsense.”

Biggest Apple Store Ever Opens Today
And not but 3 blocks from my house.

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