Posted by Kyle | Posted in Site News | Posted on 05-01-2010
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I’ve been reading a lot of these “most popular posts of 2009″ rundowns, which got me thinking. Aren’t all most popular posts really only self-fulfilling prophecies? For example I have the something in the sidebar about the most popular posts over the past 60 days. Once something make it into the bottom spot it gets more traffic and moves further up the list, until it it is older than sixty days and is removed.
Regardless, here are the most popular posts of 2009 from my blog. Some were obvious attempts to game search engines and generate more traffic. The popularity rating is a combination of views, searches, comments, trackbacks, etc., that is automatically tracked for all posts. The percentage next to each post is the relative popularity rating out of a maximum of 100.
I was very hesitant to make this post. Spymaster is certainly a time sink worthy of being a Monday morning distraction, but promoting it also runs the risk of someone polluting my twitter stream with nonsense. You’ve been warned, if you abuse this game, I’ll stop following you.
That said, you are probably asking, what is Spymaster? The official web site lists it as “An action game for twitter.” It is a game involving the world of espionage which has you joining either the American CIA, the British MI6 or the Russian FSB. If you decide to integrate the game with twitter you will get bonuses, but might annoy your friends.
The game has you complete missions, assassinate other agents and get money to buy more stuff. You can play the game here. They just recently opened it up from the closed beta and are going to be implementing a lot of changes over the next few months, or so I’ve read. After you start to get addicted, check out this very complete guide to make sure you are doing as much as you can to reach level 30.
95 Old School games available online for free. Admittedly I’ve never heard of a lot of these, but with classics like Spy Hunter, Zelda and Donkey Kong, this list is going to easily get you through the long week.
I thought I would post this in segments or in the middle of the week. This is so interesting it immediately burned about half an hour of my day. Reddit.com let users post questions and vote on the ten to post to Adam Savage from Mythbusters. Very cool, candid interview.
I am pretty sure this has been posted either here or on another blog on the network in the past, but I recently rediscovered Oregon Trail. You can find the game here. This is one of those games I can remember playing in the classroom as a kid, but I’m not sure if I had ever finished it. I played through and ended up with 4405 points. I have an urge to try and play it to get to the #1 spot on the scoreboard. It probably wouldn’t be that hard.
Credit goes to Coop for finding this one. The Funny Farm Puzzle is a perfect distraction. It is just difficult enough to challenge you, yet let you keep advancing. If someone actually manages to defeat this puzzle, I will be in awe.
This is sure to waste some of your time this morning. It asks 52 questions about yourself and your knowledge of zombies. It then gives you scores about how well you would survive a zombie outbreak. Question #42 is funny for those who know me well. Here are my scores, post yours in the comments.
Physical Score – B
Mental Score – A
Experience Score – A
Emotional Score – F
Total Score – Z+
This is like Tetris with gravity and physics. My highest score is 479ish. The site is cool in general because it has Xbox Live style achievements for all of the flash games. The very difficult achievement for 99 Bricks is to get a tower over 600. Can anyone do it?
Keeping with the zombie theme two posts in a row, this is a really fun zombie survival game. You have 40 days to make it across the state to the city where a helicopter will pick you and the survivors up. You alternate between fighting waves of zombies and searching buildings near your location for supplies, weapons and more survivors.
The Pirate City is a new site that streams tons of movies for free. I would recommend checking out: (but have not checked if they are available) The Bank Job, Son of Rambow, Bigger Stronger Faster and The Battle in Seattle. Those are the best films I have seen lately, hopefully they are on the site.
