A selfish item to start out this week’s DSTW: Read my MacUser post. It’s fun (I promise), it was more time-consuming than my usual slothful output, yet right after posting it, I bumped it down from the top slot with two more posts. Humbly, as always, I submit that you might enjoy it.

Geek Out

Go cart. With its perilously high hipster quotient, I debated whether to include the Sixth Annual Idiotarod NYC in today’s roundup. But this event gets the GONY seal of approval because A) they admit they are idiots and B) any event that includes a scavenger hunt cannot be bad.¹ If you haven’t encountered the billions of wacky human-interest stories published about the Idiotarod, it’s a shopping-cart race for costumed morons. This year’s race takes place in Astoria, and it will be frigid, so try to design a get-up that strikes the right balance between wacky and warm.

Geek In

GONY’s very first flatulence-related endorsement. There are a few small games I’ve played recently that will eat up your time whether you like it or not. They’re too small to merit their own review, but too much fun to ignore, so here we are.

Achievement Unlocked: So you like Xbox achievements, eh? Well, have ALL THE ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE WORLD!

Puzzle Farter: You’re a farting goldfish. Either you already hate this game, or you love it. Your opinion is unlikely to change by playing it.

Lemonade Stand for iPhone/iPod Touch: I spent many a rainy grade-school recess calculating optimal pricing strategies in this game. And a bunch of sunny ones, too. Go classic graphics mode or go home.

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1. OK, as soon as I wrote that sentence, I was able to thing of some potentially bad scavenger hunts, like the First Annual New York Arsonist Assocation Scavenger Hunt. Damn you, New York Arsonist Association! [Vigorously shaking fist]  ↑