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Now that is impressive - the guy dropped his iPhone on the pool while playing around around with the video recording and it kept working underwater... I wonder if it will survive long term, or get corroded...

I just finished Tumblebugs 2. It's a nice little casual game, of the "shoot-3-matching balls" genre. It was pretty good. The addition of a few extra special "balls" was ok, but what I enjoyed the most was the addition of several helpers. I felt it really added to the overall game "strategy". I did feel that it could benefit from a feel RPG elements, such as were added on Atlantis Sky Patrol and some of the Luxor titles - such as increasing special ball effects, helper powers, etc.

I just saw Eagle Eye on the local PPV. Very nice! (Spoiler Alert) Sure, a lot of the hacks of the evil computer are ridiculous. But that is pretty common on movies - personally I don't much care. It seems very likely that whoever designed the evil computer played Portal. At the very end, the resemblance was so obvious I kept expecting cake references... Some of the plot also reminded me of Daniel Suarez's Daemon - particularly how the various agents were coordinated.

Storm from the Shadows was pretty good - something that is common to most Honor Harrington novels and also most David Webber books I've read (some of his fantasy/alternate history stuff, I tried to start reading and then went on for another book). I have to confess that since it's been quite a while since the last novel, I was a bit lost at several points for the past story :-) There were also some long side discussions that kept me waiting anxiously for the rest of the action... The worst part, though, was the ending... The state of suspense, and then finding out how long it is going to take for the next book... Oh, well, I guess I have no choice but to wait. So far it's been well worth it.

Lately I've tried out a few SEO tools. My free favorites were: - Free Monitor for Google , which allows you to track your page rankings - PaRameter - from the same company - which very quickly looks up page rank for as many pages as you want. - Good Keywords has several tools for keyword look-up, PR/rank checks,etc.

Yesterday, a friend sent me Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version . I don't think I ever laughed so hard. I was literally crying with laughter by the middle of the video. Of course, that was a great pick to make a literal video from, given how absurd it was... There are quite a few other literal videos out there, with a wide range of quality. Other I enjoyed were Head over Heels, White Wedding and Penny Lane.