WordPress by itself is very simple — what makes it compelling for most of its users is the wide array of plugins (and themes) available for WP. The average WordPress blog has about 5 plugins installed! Today we just passed 4,000 plugins available in our plugin directory. (Which is also embedded into everyone’s WordPress 2.7 or above.)

I declare January 28th our official “Thank a Plugin Developer” day. To celebrate take a look at the plugins you use and love, visit the author’s site, find their contact form, and drop them a note thanking them. (Or Paypal!) Look for the links in the plugin directory to “author homepage” and also to donate directly if they’ve specified a Paypal address.

Thank you to everyone who has ever written a plugin for WordPress, and here’s to the next four thousand.

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Billy Bob Thornton plays both a scorpion and a hunter in an upcoming Wii game called Deadly Creatures. Thornton says he can’t play the game and that Pong is more his speed. Joystiq says Deadly Creatures will be out in February - a delay pushed the game from an initial December release. You can find more about the game on the official website.

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Today we’ve switched on WordPress.tv, your visual resource for all things WordPress.

On WordPress.tv, you’ll find tutorials for both WordPress self-installs and WordPress.com to help you get blogging fast and hassle-free. We’ve kicked things off with the basics — now you can shape what comes next. Just drop us a line and let us know what you’d like to see added.

WordPress.tv is also now the place to find all that awesome WordCamp footage that was floating around the web without a home. See the presentations you missed and get a peek at behind-the-scenes action. We call it WordCampTV.

You’ll also find slideshows of presentations made by WordPress gurus, plus interviews I’ve done with the media and fellow bloggers.

I hope you’ll consider WordPress.tv not just a support resource, but also a place to hang out and keep up with all the geeky goodness going on in the WordPress community. Tune in regularly for fresh content and updates to the WordPress.tv blog. Lots more is on the way.

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Flying Pizza Kitty is a website with interesting animated comic strips and little time killer online games. The graphics are low quality and old school but that just seems to make the concept of this pizza flinging kitty more fun and amusing.



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The AP’s Derrik Lang describes several games he is looking forward to in 2009 that are not sequels of other games. One of the games on his list is the intricately detailed Heavy Rain. He also likes Prototype, a parkour inspired game where players became a shape-shifting superhero. Others he mentions: Madworld, a violent Wii game; Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Ghostbusters.

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This message was spotted written on a blackboard in the zombie survival game, Left 4 Dead. Losing the Internet is just one of many unhappy things that would happen if there was a real zombie uprising. (via Offworld)



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The New York Times reports that Dairy Queen has launched a game called DQ Tycoon that lets you run a DQ store.

Now, a new game created with the help of Dairy Queen, DQ Tycoon, lets players run their own fast-food franchise.



“Oh, come on, who hasn’t wanted to run and own a DQ?” Michael Keller, the chief brand officer of Dairy Queen International, said. “Maybe everybody doesn’t, but so many Americans have grown up with the DQ brand, and have had that experience of stepping up to a DQ window on a hot summer day.”



DQ Tycoon is a time-management game, one of a genre of anxiety-inducing games requiring players to race against the clock to complete mundane tasks - in this case, preparing Peanut Buster Parfaits, taking orders, restocking the refrigerator, and dipping cones.

We aren’t sure DQ really needs a game to convince kids to want ice cream. If they really wanted to use a game to brand their store they should have given it away completely for free. Instead the game costs $19.99 to be downloaded from BigFishGames.com. You can play the game free for one hour.



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