Angry Birds make Phil angry (kinda)

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Apr 27, 2012 7:30 PMNov 20, 2019 1:57 AM

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A few weeks ago, I got a note from my pal Brian Brushwood (via Ashley Paramore and, somehow, Veronica Belmont; the actual email path was Möbius-like) asking if I'd like to be a part of a short, funny video about Angry Birds Space for his videocast "Game On!" Not being an idiot, I said yes. Here's the result.

[embed width="610"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsecZsk0-68&feature=youtu.be&hd=1&t=19m58s[/embed]

I had fun filming this! Angry Birds is evil and addicting and I don't recommend downloading it unless you like evil and addicting games, which of course I do. Sadly, "Game On!" was canceled. But the good news is that: a) Veronica is now doing the show "Sword and Laser"

with Tom Merrit on Felicia Day's Geek and Sundry

channel on YouTube, and 2) Brian has a book out, "Scam School"

, which I've been perusing and is both very funny and highly, highly evil*

. It's all about tricks and puzzles and brain teasers you can pull in bars to win free drinks off people (it also has the amazing super-cooled beeer thing in it

). I'm really enjoying it, and you will too if you buy it

. And you should. Thanks to Brian for having me on the show!


^* Today's word: evil.

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