Starshine Flash Game, Murder/Torture Suspect "Not A Monster," and Miguel Cabrera to the Dodgers?

Quick-hitters:

- Losing when you have a full house hurts. Losing when you have a full house to four of a kind really hurts. Losing when your opponent flops quads, and you "catch up" by hitting your full house on the turn, REALLY hurts.

(No, Krunk, I was not involved in that hand.)

- According to accuweather.com, it was only in the mid-80s today. Hopefully it stays this cool for the next couple of weeks.

- I saw this game originally on Newgrounds, and I immediately got hooked on it: Starshine (link from Digg). Fun little game; you gotta fire a shooting star to start a chain reaction; the goal being to light up all the stars on the screen. The music's pleasant, and the gameplay is very simple. Some of the levels are much tougher than the others, though, and it can get aggravating when you set off a huge chain reaction and miss a single star. On those levels, I just started randomly clicking, and eventually I was able to stumble upon the solution :P.

Also courtesy of Digg, here's a cheat sheet if you should get stuck on a certain level.

By the way, Desktop Tower Defense 1.5 has been released (also from Digg)!

- A Madison, Wisconsin woman implicated in the murder of a woman and the torture of the victim's 11-year-old son declared that she was "not a monster." This passage speaks for itself:

[Candace] Clark denied involvement in the killing of 36-year-old Tammie Garlin, whose body police found buried in the yard.

As for the other charges she and three others face, Clark said, "No one's innocent in this."

All four -- Clark, Sisk, Michaela Clerc, 20, and a 15-year-old girl -- are charged with first-degree murder, child abuse, mutilation, hiding a corpse, false imprisonment, aggravated battery, three other felonies and a misdemeanor. The three adults are also charged with contributing to the delinquency of a child.

So let's see...you say you're not a monster, yet you all but admitted you were involved in all those other charges? I guess you're definition of "monster" ever so slightly differs from "mine." Actually, you're right; you're not a monster. Monster isn't good enough to describe you.

Oh wait! Apparently she wasn't abusing the kid! It was only discipline! "Others in the group took turns beating and torturing the boy, Clark said, calling him unruly. He would bite, kick and punch, and even Tammie Garlin said he had to be disciplined." Beating, torturing, and burning a kid; is that what constitutes discipline nowadays?

What an absolutely sickening story.

- If the Florida Marlins' star Miguel Cabrera would be made available in a trade, the Dodgers would be one team interested. The price seems to be a bit steep, though:

Figure three from the Dodgers' group of Chad Billingsley, Jonathan Broxton, Matt Kemp, James Loney, Andre Ethier, Tony Abreu, Andy LaRoche and Clayton Kershaw.

Yikes! As much as I love Cabrera, that's an awfully expensive price to pay. Then again, I've heard comparisons that he might be the next Manny Ramirez; if that's true, then we must have him! If I can't have the real Manny, I'll take the second coming of him, as long as Cabrera starts picking up Manny's antics: cutting off throws from the center fielder, hiding behind the wall (maybe Cabrera can hide in the Dodgers' bullpen), listening to an MP3 player built-in to his sunglasses during play, and, most importantly, insisting that he needs to be traded every year, only to forget that request and mash the hell out of a baseball.

I love most of those players on that list, but we must go get Cabrera!

That's all for today.