Assorted Udderances take a pull offa Ben's pipe

Cow Clicker

Ian Bogost has created Cow Clicker, a Facebook game  in which you get a cow, and can click on it.  Six hours later, you can click on it again.

The article is an insightful essay on the cyclical and insipid phenomenon of today's "social gaming".

I post this as a follow-up to earlier linkage of a couple weeks ago, an essay exploring why people play FarmVille. (via Marco)