Archive: Jason Recommends

Thunderbird 1.5 (January 12, 2006)

Another step forward for Mozilla’s great free e-mail program

Cloud (December 2, 2005)

A fun free game in the spirit of Katamari Damacy. What’s not to like?

“Downfall” (September 18, 2005)

I highly recommend this portrayal of Hitler’s last days

Prepare To Waste Prodigious Amounts of Time (July 31, 2005)

… with this maddeningly addictive web game

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (April 30, 2005)

A worthy production of a classic book

Darwinia (April 24, 2005)

Another great game from the UK’s Introversion Software

All the Strategy You Can Handle (February 1, 2005)

For less money than you think

Fafblog (January 13, 2005)

I’ve only recently discovered Fafblog and it has been consistenly cracking me up. For example, see their take on Howard Fineman’s column lamenting the surrender of the mainstream media to blogs: On behalf of the entire “Mainstream Media,” Howard Fineman has surrendered to Blogonia, and Giblets, its cruel and unyielding Blogarch, accepts! … Let Giblets’s […]

The Aviator (December 28, 2004)

Martin Scorsese delivers a terrific life of Howard Hughes

La Tasca (October 19, 2004)

Good tapas, reasonably priced

President Forever Scenarios (October 9, 2004)

Our cup runneth over

New PuTTY Version Fixes Major Security Hole (August 17, 2004)

Run, don’t walk, and get PuTTY version 0.55

Prime Minister Forever (June 20, 2004)

The latest political game from Eighty Dimensional takes political gaming up north

The True Meaning of Life (April 28, 2004)

Return of the snark