Five Recently Bookmarked Pages

The fantastic magazine/book/whatever Make has a fantastic blog as well. I got a steal on the Make Box Set last week. It's a bit higher now but still a substantial savings over the $15 cover price.

wunderground.com has been a constant fixture on my desktop this evening as tornado sirens sound all over town. Clearly Nexrad doppler radar indicates that the storm is going to miss us. I may not be a professional meteorologist, but I am an amateur meteorologist.

An utterly fantastic article on game design as it relates to WarioWare, comparing it to Understanding Comics.

A good summary of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's book about "flow", the term the author uses for the feeling one gets when concentrating on something interesting and enjoyable marked by a loss of time and sense of self, and how it relates to the business world.

Table of Malcontents: Lore Sjöberg's miniblog on creative web types and what they're working on. Lore is best known from the now-defunct Brunching Shuttlecocks site and only slightly lesser known from the Cyborg Name Decoder, Lore Brand Comics and my favorite: The Book of Ratings. Back in the day (pre Y2K) I compliled a list of all the things to which the Book of Ratings gave an A and thus are inherently good. This is that list:

Quarters
The Queen
Conjuction Junction
Gnomes
Frosty the Snowman
Wasabi
Sushi itself
Pumpkin Pie
Mashed Potatoes
Factory Air
Winch
Catnip anything
The Constitution
Pronouns
Woodcarving
Magic Pencils
Legomania Magazine
Bear and Doll Supply Catalog
Thor
Super Balls
Throwing Stars
Oreo-o's
Smoke Bombs
Jelly Doughnuts
Glazed Doughnuts
Veruca Salt
Violet Beauregard
Shirley Jones