When I was living in my grandfather's house after he moved to an old folks' home, and before we sold it I used to toy with these assholes. They'd ask for "Mr. wikthemighty" (which I was) and I'd go along with their schemes and ask them all sorts of odd questions, and eventually they'd run in to "oh, I'm not that Mr. wikthemighty - he doesn't live here anymore" or "he's dead, you need to update your records" or whatever I felt like saying at the time... My mom died in 2007 and my dad still gets mail and calls for her.

At least Advanced Squad Leader is still alive, published by Multiman Publishing, thanks in part to Curt Schilling...

My 6 year old daughter does pretty good with YouTube, but there have been plenty of incidents like going from Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse to kids playing "Bobbie & Ricky" where Ricky has been kidnapped and tied up "because that's my kind of love!" which crosses the border a bit. I'll definitely be giving this app a shot.

Of course - kid friendly ones! ;)

Really, the only thing my SLR does better than my phone is Optics, which makes distance & low-light photos possible. Taking a snap of what you had for lunch? My phone does that just as well as the SLR.

Robo Rally would be a great place to start teaching programming basics (i.e. programming steps and timing.)

Earliest computer/electronic experiment that really struck me as a kid (1st or 2nd grade) was 'decoding' circuits with a logic probe: we had rectangles of construction paper, half of which had two rows of hole-punched holes on opposite ends, and we taped tin foil paths between them, including bogus foil under the 'dead' holes. After making a half dozen of these each, we traded and logic probed someone else's circuits. Lots of fun!

Well, if you ever do feel like playing games again, please check out GoodOldGames' great selection of titles!

While I'm not so thrilled with their Capsule DRM system, Green Man Gaming has had a system in place to trade in digital games for some time now. I believe the developer gets to set whether or not a game can be traded in.

Agreed. Think of what good it would do if everyone got a small electric vehicle for commuting - speeds might be a little slower, but you could have more/smaller commuter lanes, and collisions would be less drastic. (Unless you get confettied by a semi truck!)

SpaceChem is a fantastic game, and is the first game in a long while to remind me of the old The Learning Comany games like Rocky's Boots and Robot Odyssey.

Evochron Mercenary

Space Combat (by Laminar Research, makers of X-Plane)

Plenty of great "couch co-op" games on PC.

Recently I've played:

A Virus Named Tom

Trine 2

Rayman Origins

Portal 2

Magicka

Dungeon Defenders

Disney Universe (we've got a 3yo in the house!)

Dunno about that, but I thought the Paper Mario games were terrific!

Humble Indie Bundle
Indie Gala
Indie Royale
Be Mine