I recently decided I would spend 24 hours avoiding the use of the word ‘cool.’ Harvey Smith has challenged me to 24 hours of not using any superlative or adjective, but instead to describe things as they are, leaving the subjective and unsubstantive words on the wayside for a short period of time.
I accept his [...]

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7576956.stm.
This is a very, very good idea, and I’m surprised we haven’t seen more of this in other venues similar to Xbox Live. The only issue now is encouraging people to stop playing Halo 3 for just a few minutes come election day and actually go to their polling place.
I’m only being partly facetious. [...]

A few new XBLA games have caught my attention recently. Braid is being played and praised. Geometry Wars 2 is addictive. And Bionic Commando: Rearmed releases today.
This is in contrast to months and months of low-profile releases. Is Microsoft playing at something? Some sort of summer blockbuster concept of downloadable game releases?