Minecraft is a unique game that can’t easily fit into one genre. It’s sort of a first-person creation game “” the main draw is that you can shape the world by building and destroying blocks. But the game also includes a survival mode and a multiplayer mode, and there are plans to include still more [...]

Do you know a geeky college student for whom some regular old dorm furniture or school supplies just won’t suffice as gifts? Would this geeky college student instead appreciate a strange and unique tech gift like a walking robot pencil sharpener? Look no further. There are plenty of sites where you can find the perfect [...]

I intend to open up to you the corners of the internet that can help tap into the darkest corners of your own mind. Last month, I brought you the best optical illusions on the web, which tested how your mind manipulates your perceptions, and now I bring you some of the web’s best psychological [...]

Warning: I’m about to tell you about a flash puzzle game website that will probably eat up several hours of your time. Please consider whether you are willing to take this risk before you proceed. Eyezmaze.com‘s games are fun, unique, and free. All of the games are the work of just one person, and they [...]

You might think that IRC (Internet Relay Chat), a chat protocol first developed in 1988, has gone the way of the dinosaur. But, according to Wikipedia, the most popular IRC networks still serve over half a million users at a time, and IRC still has some unique uses that might surprise you. One of the [...]

Optical illusions have confounded and delighted humans for thousands of years, from the Parthenon’s architectural trickery to M. C. Escher’s impossible realities to the spinning dancer. The enjoyable struggle to understand optical illusions is best summed up by the Greek philosopher and dramatist Epicharmus: “The mind sees and the mind hears. The rest is blind [...]

To save some money at a brick-and-mortar store, you might turn to clipping coupons. But in this day and age, you probably do a lot of your shopping online, especially as Amazon.com offers just about everything you might need to purchase, from books to electronics to groceries. On top of that, it has its own [...]

Your mom told you to never play with your food, but no one ever told you that you shouldn’t play with your fiction. You may know of “Choose Your Own Adventure” books and text adventures, but those things are practically relics. Their more modern manifestation is the interactive movie, and recent years have brought us [...]

Where should you turn to when you need an idea to set off an entrepreneurial endeavor or escape the shackles of writer’s block? If this was the 20th Century, you might have no choice but to sit around and think for a while, hoping that something might spark your creativity and an idea will just [...]

Even the best of us have a grammatical issue from time to time. Where should we turn to to resolve those timeless questions about when to use “lay” and when to use “lie”? There are a ton of great free grammar resources on the web to answer these questions and just about any other grammatical [...]