It's a new month, but that doesn't mean we're changing anything on the blog. The Go Game UK is still serving up tasty links for your time-wasting pleasure.
Flash Game of the Week: I Love Traffic - Who hasn't sat at a traffic light and thought 'I wonder what moron programmed this thing? I could do a much better job.' Well now's your chance...although I found that causing accidents in this game was far more satisfying.
What We're Reading:
Will augmented reality change the way we watch football? [Telegraph]
Our good friend Sarbjit on the artistry of video games [TIMJ]
Remember the movie Space Jam? It might have been based on an ancient Mayan story [Chicagoist]
Can video games inspire altruism? This study tests with Lemmings (the game, not the animal) [Greater Good]
Interesting scholarly 2004 piece on video game-based learning [EDUCAUSE Review]
Family in Shropshire discovers a 300 year old church under their house [newslite.tv]
Some heavy reading: NESTA's latest report on arts and cultural innovation [NESTA]
Piece on Loopt's new "game" [NY Times] but Jane McGonigal disagrees [1,2,3,4,5,6]
Be a winning employer during the World Cup [Smarta]
US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor sayz video games can be teaching tools [Wired]
A scavenger hunt of famous television landmarks in New York City [Gawker]
What We're Watching:
Workplace birthday celebration for a lucky Danish bus driver [TNW]
What happens when you upload and download the same Youtube vid 1000 times? [Mashable]
Behind the scenes at Duck Hunt HQ [Joystiq]
The Apollo 11 launch in suuuuuuper slow-motion [PetaPixel]
A cool concept train that saves fuel and time...because it never stops [scitechie]
Dueling screeching iPhone apps (warning, autoplay) [Popgog]
Putting a swing on the Paris Metro [BoingBoing], like the swing at a London bus stop
Other Cool Stuff:
50 "Worst" inventions list is pretty subjective. Is Foursquare really worse than Nazism? [Time]
Salvador Dali eating a bowl of surreal [Howard Besser's T-Shirt Database]
Mario meets the oil spill [GamOvr]
A DIY Lego Mario [Luxology Forum]
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