Practicalmadness

Yeah, you heard that right: Oscar Night approacheth, and tho you better mothey over to the Othcarth Game— ahem, sorry, I mean, mosey on over to the Oscars Game and make those last-minute picks. You’ve got until 5 PM on Sunday to make your predictions, after which time the ability to make or edit picks will be locked and the site will start looking a little something like the screenshot at right. (Actually, it’ll look a larger something— you get the idea.)

I can’t really say that going all Ajax on you for the Oscar Night version of the game offers much value over just refreshing the page every 30 seconds, but what the hell — it’s been fun to work on so far, such that I really won’t mind when some of the serious competitors we’ve got this year kick my ass and take my free iPod.

For those friends, well-wishers and game-playing smack-talkers who won’t be able to make it to the invitation-only Practicalmadness Oscar Night viewing party on Sunday, we’ll have a chat room (powered by Campfire) where up to 20 people can get together and celebrate the fact that they’re…in a chat room. Or something. Whatever, we’ll have a chat room. Woooo-hoo!