LazyLaces has put together a great collection of Point and click games. You know the ones, where you have to um… point and click. I’m sure you’ve all seen the games where you really don’t have any instruction and just have to point and click (yes, again) until you find all the secret hidden areas to take you through the game. Even if you have no idea what I’m talking about, it’ll make sense once you’ve given a few of them a try. Have Fun!

Somebody has built a Half Life 2 map of a huge domino setup. Using the Half Life physics engine, this domino course is built out of doors and pieces of metal from the game. The falling dominos travel all over the map until they finally smash an old guy at the end. Appropriate for a domino setup created in a shoot-em-up game, no?

Someone else has gone and done something really cool using Google Maps. There is now a cheap gas site where you can click and drag yourself all over the United States and see the locations and prices for the cheapest gas (regular or diesel). This site takes its price and location data from an already useful site called GasBuddy.com and makes it even better.

Since tonight will be my last supper before going to see the new Star Wars Movie I thought this image was appropriate (yet still a little disturbing). I’m taking off work tomorrow to see Episode III (yes I know, I’m a geek!). We’ll be catching an afternoon show at the closest THX certified theater in Des Moines, and we’ll be all geeked out in Star Wars T-shirts (Jess is going with the Princess Leia hair!). Be sure to check the mobile phone photo gallery tomorrow for what I’m sure will be some lovely shots of us and a bunch of other Star Wars geeks waiting in line.

Recently I’ve seen a bunch of articles on the Firefox extension, Greasemonkey (Slashdot, Wired, misc. blogs) lately and thought I’d join in with my own praise of this really neat tool. I’ve been using GreaseMonkey for a while now, and it is kind of one of those tiny novelty things that just makes life a little bit easier while you’re surfing the web.

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to change how a webpage is laid out in your browser with simple DHTML scripts. It works similar to the CSS model where you can change little things or add little things to a page with and external script. I’ve found a few that I use regularly. One of the most handy is the “delte button for Gmail” script, which does just as it says and adds a delete button to the Gmail interface (why they don’t have one there by default is beyond me). This handy Greasemonkey script is just one of hundreds available to change how the sites you visit are presented. A few more that I have found really helpful are scripts that turn off ads in weather.com, and one that turns off the big full-screen ads on ucomics. Another fun one, called Book Burro, will bring up a little price comparison window when you view a book at several online bookseller sites.

If you want to give Greasemonkey a try, it’s really simple to get up and running (you must be running Firefox):

1. Download and install the Greasemonkey extension.
2. Restart Firefox
3. Find some scripts to install - GreaseMonkey User Scripts.
   
4. Follow the script link to the javascript code page.
5. Select “Install User Script” under the Tools menu in Firefox.
6. Visit the site that the script you just installed is supposed to modify.
7. Rinse… Repeat!

As of last Sunday night there are now 200 photos in my Mobile Phone Pics gallery. It all started on October 20th, 2003 at 3:52 PM with a shot of my computer monitors at work taken with my first camera phone . Before you go exploring, be forewarned, it’s really random!

Some folks at Geobloggers.com have put together a really cool integration of Google Maps and Flickr. If you provide some specific tagging information including latitude and longitude you can have your Flickr photos show up in a custom Google Map. Here is an example from Chicago. This takes Flickr’s Mappr that I blogged about a while back to the next level.

More info at the Flickr Blog.
UPDATE: I added a couple of my own.

I was kicking myself last week because I lost one of the foams on my earbuds. So one ear was comfortable and one was uncomfortable while I listened to music. After a little digging, I found some forum posts in an iPod forum listing several places to get replacements. This afternoon I ran out to RadioShack and checked out their selection. For $2.99, you can get a package of four replacement foams that work just as well as the original ones. So if you lose the original spongy things from your earbuds, the RadioShack replacements will definitely do the job.