Articles Written By Matthew Baldwin
TMN Contributing Writer Matthew Baldwin has haphazardly updated his site defective yeti for more than a decade. He is also responsible for Infinite Summer (an internet-wide reading of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest), A Month of Son (a blog about raising his autistic son), and Seattle Gamenight (a monthly tabletop gaming group).
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Guides
The 2005 Good Gift Games
Being with friends and loved ones is what makes the holidays special—and once you’re fed up with that, it’s time to humiliate them over a board game. Here are this year’s best tabletop entertainments.
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Reviews
Lone Star Statements
The praise of professional critics hardly matters to the book-reviewing readers at Amazon.com. A compilation of the best of the worst… about the best.
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Web
Doukutsu Monogatari
I rarely play computer games, and Doukutsu Monogatari is the reason. It seemed a like a harmless and fairly uninteresting diversion when I started, but that was before I spent...
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Playing the Game
Endgame
Thirty-two hours in a van, scavenging for clues and solving puzzles—that’s “the Game,” a battle of smarts and endurance, and the competition is beyond fierce. Part three: Plowing through the final competitions and racing to the finish.
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Playing the Game
The Game Is Afoot
Thirty-two hours in a van, scavenging for clues and solving puzzles—that’s “the Game,” a battle of smarts and endurance, and the competition is beyond fierce. Part two: Cracking codes and scaring the locals.
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Playing the Game
The Pre-Game Show
Thirty-two hours in a van, scavenging for clues and solving puzzles—that’s “the Game,” a battle of smarts and endurance, and the competition is beyond fierce. Part one: Wooing the judges and preparing to be crushed.
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Web
Eyezmaze.com
Though Eyezmaze.com features only a handful of Flash games, the few it contains can keep you occupied for weeks. Countless hours of productivity have vanished into the pit of...
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Television
Battlestar Galactica
And so the learner becomes the master. In 1978 the original Battlestar Galactica was one of many space operas riding the coattails of Star Wars' success; in 2003 the Sci-Fi Channel aired...
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Web
Stumbleupon
Few browser toolbars are as fun as Stumbleupon. When installed the service puts a few icons on your browser, including a thumbs up, a thumbs down, and a button labeled ...
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Personal Essays
Darth Vader Made Me Cry
From the first moment you see Darth Vader choke that rebel fighter, you know he’s evil. The helmet, the cape, the breathing? Evil, evil, evil.
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Gallery
A Run Around Lake Union
The best jogging routes are those that give you something to run from. And turf-fighting waterfowl, mysterious tech-gang tags, and head-scratching public art should do the trick. Matthew Baldwin takes us along his daily jog around Seattle’s Lake Union. Photographs by Kate Bicket.
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Personalities
Hero of the Year
Reality television has been popular for a lot longer than you might think, and it’s only going to get bigger. Once we get rid of the news networks and install an awards show, that is. Our writer broadcasts a signal from the Wellys.