The secret and only reason the Flash Player is so ubiquitous: Strong Bad emails. But if you’re among the 1.8% who never did get around to downloading the Flash player, now you don’t have to — you can buy the first hundred Strong Bad emails on DVD. You get all the usual easter eggs and stuff, plus — no, you’re not dreaming — karaoke videos.

Ladies form a line to the left for makeouts, dudes form a line to the right for highfives.

(Thanks K&K.)

Okay, so this isn’t exactly new news… but we hadn’t heard about it yet. Besides, can you think of anything else your valentine would want more as a belated token of your love? You can? Oh, um… me too.

Everyone’s blogging about Seamful, an experimental video game you play in the real world, by wandering around collecting coins and avoiding mines with your GPS- & WiFi-enabled PDA. (And if you wouldn’t abandon your weekend plans to do this instead, we have to revoke your Geek Club Card. Sorry, hand it over.)

But does it use Flash?!

Well, we haven’t been able to find out yet. [Edit: we have confirmed that it does not.] But a similar experimental game, CitiTag, most definitely does. The developers have even provided a tech report for download which describes the software architechture in detail, so if you’re equally brilliant you can roll your own.

Oh so now that’s your plan for the weekend? Okay, have your card back.

In last night’s West Wing episode, Christopher Lloyd played constitution law expert Lawrence Lessig, who discusses the appearance on his website.

You can hear the real Professor Lessig speak at Flashforward2005 San Francisco.

The Sundance Online Film Festival 2005 has an attractive Flash site which does a very nice job of incorporating Flash video. Worth a look!

Of course if you’re into this sort of thing, nothing beats attending the Flashforward2005 San Francisco Flash® Film Festival live and in person… we have balloons!*

*Presence of balloons at past Film Festivals does not constitute a guarantee of balloons at future Film Festivals. But come see it anyway.

Briefly noted — two major tools have received updates this week:

Toon Boom Studio Express 2.5
ColdFusion MX 7