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I’ve complied a quick list of my favorite addicting games from the Net. I’ll give a quick snapshot and a few thoughts on why I picked them.

1st – Defend Your Castle

Hands down this is my favorite game. It’s sweet. You just have to keep the little stick men from beating down your castle buy picking them up and dropping them from the sky. Once your a way into the game, you can buy archers and other goodies to help you defend against the onslaught of stick men! Also allows for game saves.

2nd – Hapland Series

If you haven’t heard of Hapland, you aren’t living. This is the GREATEST little figure it out game. You just click on stuff and watch things happen in sequence. There are really no instructions but once you start clicking around, you’ll get the hang of it. I’ve figured out Hapland 1 and 2, but still haven’t passed Hapland 3! Enjoy the frustration!

3rd – Xiao Xiao

There is a whole ton of these Xiao Xiao games/animations. 1,2,3,4 etc. This one is number 4. This one you can actually play. It isn’t that hard to pass, but it defiantly worth the 5-10 minutes. The ending scene is sweet. You’ll see what I mean. In the earlier Xiao Xiao’s you simply watch stick figures duke it out in epic kong-fu battles. They are pretty entertaining as well.

4th – Insaniquarium

Feed the fish, collect the coins they drop, kill the evil monsters that try to eat the fish.
Simple yet addictive.

5th – Helicopter

This is the good ol’ classic game Helicopter. I wasn’t going to add this, but I think I remember playing a version of this game on an old atari when I was younger. You have to hold down your mouse to make the chopper fly up, let go and he will plummet. Watch out for the little obstacles. Good times had by all here!

Well thats my top 5 list. After compiling it I thought, “Man, this needs to be a top 10 or 20″ because I hard a very hard time eliminating some other time-burning classics. Maybe for another list.

Desktop Wars makes the cut!
In case you guys haven’t been checking the finalist being announced over at

my app idea Desktop Wars made the finals!

Check out some of the great discussion going on over there. They’ve announced 9 finalists so far and there are some cool ideas amongst them. I check every morning to see who else is in the running. Go vote for DESKTOP WARS!

The game for people with no time to play games. Turn your desktop into a full fledged battlefield! Your icons become the terrain providing cover from fire and your placement and icon type determine other capabilities. Various types of small soldier and vehicle units navigate around your cluttered desktop in a slow paced battle that you can sit back and watch or take a more active part in.

-Vs. self with 2 armies fighting for control of your Desktop.
-Capture the Base with your hard drive being the goal for one army.
-Vs. your friends over the LAN or Internet
-Dual Monitor battles
-Use motion sensing in laptops to cause earthquakes or other events to “shake things up”.
-Use voice recognition to issue commands and orders.
-”Spaces” like switching to view network battles

This is just a quick rundown of a few basic ideas for this. I really think the sky is the limit on what you could do with it. The ultimate procrastination tool!

Talk about it at My Dream App

So I have noticed that quite a few diggs were rolling in over at phills new little project called My Dream App. I think the idea is great, and should produce some quality products.

So I thought that I would enlighten the world onto what I think would be a dreamy app. It’s not so much of an application as a time waster. Actually more like something to giggle and watch while your wasting time.

This is what it would do. You have your screen sitting there all pretty while you surf the net, work on your website, or write your next college essay. Things get pretty boring in the background. Why not have a little ants rummaging around on your screen while you work? They could crawl across your web browser, dig little holes in your windows, start little ant piles in corners, carry pieces of your window they chewed off back to the ant hole. The possibilities are endless! This would be a hoot to sit back and watch the little critters crawl around randomly doing random things while you work. It would have to be subtle, and not to many ants. Maybe you could throw in some red and black ant fights like you made when you were a kid.

So this is my great app idea. It’s really not feasible from what I understand, but it would be sweet you gotta admit.

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