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Perusing the novelties on Think Geek I came across a collectable card game called Perplex City. Being a fana of any new types of games (Partly because I got screwed out of buying a few Magic: The Gathering alpha decks for about $3 each) I checked out the Perplex City web site and found a wonderful new obsession!

Perplex City is a huge city which lives virtually online through many different websites. The basis of the game is that the Receda Cube has been stolen and hidden somewhere on earth. There is a reward of approximately $200,000 to the person who finds the Cube. This is the REAL part. If you solve the mystery and find the cube, you will actually win $200,000.

Along the way you can follow along with the story and uncover clues and all the hidden mysteries of Perplex City.

The game is unique and though you don’t have to spend a cent to play, cards are available at some game retailers and through the Internet. The cards (while collectable) contain puzzles, clues, maps, etc. Some as as complex as to reveal the clue on them, you need to apply heat or cold to the card to make the ink visible.

All in all, the game looks great. I’m waiting on my first pack of cards. They should arrive in the mail today or tomorrow! I’ll keep you all posted.

Interested in trying it out? check out www.PerplexCity.com

Do NOT flip over the Purple Hissing Octocrabs from Outer Space!!! This would be very bad. VERY bad.

I installed Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 and decided to post my thoughts on it.

Mozilla Firenet Explorer
The Internet explorer 7 browser has taken on somewhat of a Firefox-like interface. It’s Address bar and search toolbars are located along the top just as they are in Firefox, although the tool menus (File, Edit View, etc..) are located below the address bar as opposed to below it in all other windows applications. Unlike current versions of Internet Explorer, The address bar is permanent which will make it harder for malware to remove or replace the address bar. A big plus in my book.

Quick! Look what’s up!
IE7b2 also provides an overview page showing thumbnails of all the web sites open in different tabs. If you’re the type of person who likes to view a lot of websites at one time, it’s very easy for you to switch between tabs when the pages would otherwise be lost.

There’s no place like Home Pages
One feature of Microsoft’s new browser is the ability to have multiple home pages open in different tabs when you initially start it up. This could be exceptionally good for businesses that rely on multiple web-based tools and services (such as the company I am currently employed by).

Feed Me
Upon loading my personal blog (LiveJournal) IE7b2 immediately identified the availability of the RSS feeds and allowed me to subscribe. It was a bit tricky locating the actual links, but by opening my favorites and clicking on the Feeds button, I was presented with a list of all my subscribed feeds. Searching with in my jounral provided instant results. As I typed, entries that did not contain the combinations of letters I was typing were removed leaving me with only relevant entries. Great way of looking up information in large blogs, news sites, etc.

Super-size Me!
In addition to changing the text size on a page, you can zoom the entire page in or out, preserving the design. That’s just cool.

Well, there’s my brief run-down on IE7. I haven’t run into any compatability issues yet, but you can be sure that I will append this review once I find them 🙂 Again, We’ve all seen production Microsoft products fail us, so I don’t recommend installing the Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 on your own, but so far, I like what microsoft has done.

Congratulations to Ken of Farmingdale, NY!

Ken is the first to get loaded up on alcohol and crash overnight at my new home!! For you’re initiative, I salute you (and I’ll kick your butt in the final M:TG match!)