When I was a kid, I used to love the movie Clue.  So much so that when I was eight, I asked my parents to throw me a Clue-themed birthday party where we would serve guests mini hot dogs and mac and cheese (Monkey’s Brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often found in Washington, D.C. or Warren, Ohio.) Long story short, they thought it was weird for their second-grade son to have a murder mystery-themed party, but they did get me a cake with a flamingo and Pee Wee Herman on it.

Anyway, Clue has just reinvented itself for 2010, by incorporating text messages into game play.  To be honest, the game shares very little with the original.  Nobody gets murdered with candlesticks and there are now spies involved. The interesting twist is that players can text “SPY” to a dedicated number that will then respond with clues for playing the game.

It sounds kind of cool.  Though, really, the best part of Clue will always be Mrs. White’s confession of why she killed Yvette.

— Andrew

With newspaper circulation tumbling, many news organizations are taking measures to drive traffic to their websites.  Today I stumbled on a new feature on the New York Post Web site, the Pop Video Quiz.  The quiz I took questioned my memory of the hilarious and disturbing scandals of 2008 (Spitzer, Madoff, Blagojevich, et al). In true NY Post fashion, there is an entire quiz devoted to the paper’s favorite bad girl – Ashley Dupré.  Other quizzes include supermodel trivia and Wall Street woes, among others.  All questions of appropriateness and class aside, the quizzes are fun and may drive considerable traffic to the NY Post site.

-Tom