I killed a bit of time this afternoon playing Pandemic II, a nifty little Flash game where your goal is to wipe out the world by developing a virus/bacterium/parasite and infecting as many countries as possible. Morbid, but fun.

The best strategy seems to be to lie low as long as possible, getting rid of the more visible symptoms and letting harmless infections spread widely, and then piling on the more lethal attributes once most of the world is infected. I haven’t successfully gotten the entire world, though; Madagascar seems to escape most of the time since the only infection vector is a single port, and they shut their borders too early.

And I tried to play a full championship season in rFactor, with the 1979 GP cars, and the first track that came up was one of the built-in oval speedways. A bit odd, since that wasn’t part of the actual 1979 season, but whatever… And then the second race came up…on that same oval again. Turns out that I hadn’t yet downloaded the specific map pack that this mod wants, so it was just dumping me on a default track. Oh well, the more tracks, the merrier.