100 greatest video games (by decade).

So TIME thinks. Do you agree? Reader poll here .

"1,583 COMMENTS."

Hey! Thanks for all the comments on last night's election live-blog , from which I absented myself after a post at 8:04, noting the obvi...

"Can You Make It Through This Post Without Crying?"

I was tough, but #13 got to me. And the parrot, now that I think of it.

Ray Bradbury has died.

He was 91. Instapundit says: "People are mostly talking about The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 , but I liked Dandelion Wine ...

"What a ridiculously insulting article" in The Atlantic.

Says a commenter on "The Most Dangerous Gamer" : The profile of [Jonathan] Blow is interesting; what isn't is the facile prese...

"MIT hackers have long considered 'Tetris on the Green Building' to be the Holy Grail of hacks..."

"... as the side of the building is a wonderful grid for the game."

"Now videogamers can play the role of Ho Chi Minh's communist forces as they rout French colonists in a blood-spattered shoot'em-up."

"We in Vietnam aren't that familiar with World War II but we still enjoy the 'Call of Duty' games... Anybody can enjoy any ...

Grandpa Aaron reports on the video games his grandson gave him for his birthday.

Very sweet. Via Reddit .

"Long before Cain was running for president and getting attention for his 999 plan..."

"... the residents of SimCity 4... were living under a system where the default tax rate was 9 percent for commercial taxes, 9 percent ...

"Crime and the great recession: Jobs have fled, lawbreaking hasn’t risen..."

"... and criminologists are scratching their heads. I credit Internet porn and videogames. Is there anything they can’t do?"

"Where is the 9,000-foot cow?"/"What do you think about Satan?"/"What did James Madison think about video games?"

Justice Ginsburg lists the strangest questions asked last term at oral argument. "From the foregoing samples, you may better understand...

The U.S. Supreme Court violent video games case + the Wisconsin Supreme Court "chokegate" story...

... melded into a brilliant segment on "The Daily Show": The Daily Show - Moral Kombat Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , Politi...

In the violent video games case, Scalia notes the irony of Alito's strenuous effort to describe the "astounding" violence.

From the majority opinion in the just-decided case of Brown, Governor of California v. Entertainment Merchants Association: JUSTICE ALITO ha...

"Heavy users of Twitter, as Weiner used to be (he hasn’t posted since June 1), play a complicated strategy game."

Writes Virginia Heffernan: Like World of Warcraft and Halo, Twitter is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, but with higher rea...

Emily Dickinson meets...

... Grand Theft Auto.

From the White House official Flickr site...

... here's an interesting new photo: It's supposed to be symbolic, right? The President, having reached the top of a staircase, enco...

Obama diverts himself and tells us to quit diverting ourselves.

1. "With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diver...

Who could have imagined that one day the Supreme Court would take a case called Schwarzenegger...

... and Schwarzenegger would be arguing for preventing young people from viewing graphic depictions of violence? That day has come. Don'...

I play Quordy.

An iPhone app, that's a bit reminiscent of the Boggle-like thing I was doing on paper yesterday. IN THE COMMENTS: Ruth Anne is alarmed ...

The video game-inspired law school.

BBC reports that businesses are restructuring work to take advantage of the mindset workers have developed playing video games: [S]ome comp...