Jamin Warren

Jamin Warren

Here are four things the NYT "stupid games" story got right.

I’ve had a million people send me Sam Anderson’s NYT Mag cover story from this weekend on the allure of “stupid games.” Let’s be clear: I’m not particularly happy that a medium that I love appearing on the cover of one of the world’s most respected and powerful news institutions being referred to as

Play of the Day: Maps TD is Tower Defense + Google Maps. That is all.

Not much to explain here. Duncan Barclay designed this mashup of two life obsessions as seamlessly as mac n’ cheese. For Tower Defense fanatics in need of nostalgic realism, Maps TD is right up your alley. (Not to mention it makes good use of Google’s April Fools 8-bit Maps joke.) Defend the Eiffel

How one designer is turning the e-waste of landfills into children’s toys.

Upset by the electronic waste he saw in Phenom Penh, Dhairya Dand was inspired to launch a line of toys built from those abandoned laptops, cell phones, and other digital detritus that is generally considered useless. He calls the project “Thinker Toys“: To begin with I made four of these toys, each