Links & Blinks

My latest video game fix is the Sam & Max episode, "Abe Lincoln Must Die!" You can download this here absolutely free. I love some of those old-school Sam & Max games and now they have new "seasons" of games, like tv seasons, which is a great concept. You can also check out the Best Freeware Games of 2007 for another giant list of 'em.

Speaking of U.S. presidents, the Dilbert Blog makes an amusing argument that Barack Obama is a mish-mash of a skinny Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Junior and Bobby Kennedy. Heh.

An old co-worker of mine, Trevor, posted this blog explaining that he and his wife won a draw and they will get to sit on the bleachers for the red carpet at the Oscars this year. How utterly cool is that?! Wish I could be there...

Mike's blog has an ongoing discussion about the phrase, "Hate the sin, love the sinner." Specifically, as it relates to homosexuality. It includes a pretty widely varied set of viewpoints, but there's a story that relates one person's real experience with how painful this idea can be.

I really like what my dad has been posting on his blog lately. His most recent blog looks at how we think about friendship these days. He has a great challenge for us: "How do you know if you have a friend? Try leaving whatever it is that you’ve been doing together and see if they still call you. You may be surprised that it wasn’t friendship that held you together but the activity which you had been involved in." Sadly, that's more true than we would like to admit.