Tuesday, May 27 - Murdoctor Day

Tuesday, May 27 - Murdoctor Day

All Murdoctor puzzles, all day.

The hard part was finding puzzles to Unfeature. I’m sure there will be some disagreements :)

Shipping prices beyond our control...

Shipping prices beyond our control...

As I’m sure all of your have experienced the cost of buying gas has increased by almost 2 times since we started Tanga. We’ve tried hard to keep our shipping costs low, even though we’ve been losing money on every shipment that goes out. Now, trying to maintain our shipping prices has become impossible as some shipments we are losing 2, 3, 4 or more dollars depending on the weight of the item and

Dogs are Fun

Dogs are Fun

Now that the weather is finally shaping up in Seattle, I have been taking my new friend to the dog park and having fun in the sun. My dog is a 5 month old blue dapple Dachshund named Lily. Anybody else have a dog? Post pics!

Also, let me know if you have any training suggestions! This is my first dog (didn’t have one growing up) and I have been learning along the way.

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Tanga has no internet!

Tanga has no internet!

Seems like something I’d be happy about right? No internet = no work! But alas, I actually care about my work, and my devoted Tanganites.
I know you want to get your stuff, you want answers to your TG’s, I know!
So I lugged the shipping computer and label printer home last night and I’m going to get everything taken care of remotely!
Just because I love you guys so dang much!
I sincerely

Announcing Arnott!

Announcing Arnott!

Hey Tanganites all,

I have a very exciting announcement!

Tanga is welcoming a new partner. You already know him. He is Arnott.

This is good news for all of us. Dave has a combination of talents that we think will benefit Tanga enormously.

Dave has been toiling behind the scenes for a while already.

In fact, if renfurdson appeared more thoughtful and responsive for most of March,

releasing some unfeatured puzzles

releasing some unfeatured puzzles

thought I’d let folks know I’m releasing some unfeatured puzzles

we’ll have moderators going soon! Then the unfeatured stuff will be far more regular.

Bookshelf

Bookshelf

Here’s my nerd bookshelf. I read too much.

Monkeys Really Do Fling Poo...

Monkeys Really Do Fling Poo...

I was in Costa Rica all last week and had a couple of interesting things happen.

1) Monkeys really do fling their poo. And they have pretty good aim as well. We had monkeys outside of the house the entire trip and it was amazing.

2) My friends and I went down to a hotel for dessert one night. This place is in the middle of nowhere. We were eating and my friend looked behind him and sitt

Raining in Seattle

Raining in Seattle

A dreary day today, looks like.

And if your name is Julia, and today is your birthday, this is for you!

Sell on Tanga, Advertise on Bottom Feeder!

Sell on Tanga, Advertise on Bottom Feeder!

Do you have a product that you would like to sell on Tanga? Do you know of someone who does? Tanga would love to talk to you about the opportunities with our unique sales channel.

What about getting some exposure to your product by featuring it as a prize for our Bottom Feeder contest? Thousands of Tanganites will be coveting your product and crossing their fingers to win!

To sell a produc

Elevators are cool

Elevators are cool

Guy is stuck in an elevator for 41 hours. Time lapsed video

Article about that experience, and about elevators in general

Dunno how I’d do in that situation. I hope I would have a notepad and pen with me, then I’d be ok.

Tanga Now Supports OpenID

Tanga Now Supports OpenID

Something I’ve been wanting to add to Tanga for a while is OpenID support. If you are new to OpenID, read about it here. Or here.

You can get an OpenID account from myopenid.com. If you have a Yahoo or AOL IM account, you already have an OpenID that you can use with Tanga.

If you have a Tanga account an

Leaderboard Prizes

Leaderboard Prizes

Well, it looks like I have forgotten Leaderboard prizes – again!
This time you all let me go two months!
They are all awarded now, so if you notice a boon to your TangaCash this is why.

Congrats to our Leaderboard Leaders!

Tanga v3.0.0.1.2334 Released

Tanga v3.0.0.1.2334 Released

We just released a new look and feel for the web site and have made tons of small little fixes and additions to the site. Some of it is behind the scenes stuff that you wouldn’t notice anyway but I thought I’d mention it as TangaJoe and TangaJordan have been working like Monkeys to get this new site up!

To celebrate, we are going to be offering a $400 MSRP prize on tonight’s bottom feede

New Leaderboards Now In Place

New Leaderboards Now In Place

We have put a couple of new leaderboards in place to recognize those who are frequent purchasers on Tanga. You can check them out here!

Goodbye TangaJoe...

Goodbye TangaJoe...

It is with heavy heart that we are saying goodbye to TangaJoe. He made a bad decision of posting some not-so-family-friendly pictures on the Picathon (some people might call them pornographic) so we are unfortunately in the horrible position of needing to let him go.

Joe has done some amazing things for Tanga over the past 18 months and we’ll miss him!

Make me dinner

Make me dinner

I’m giving Dinners Ready a spin. It’s not terribly expensive, about $35 per person per week of prepared dinners. (of course, you could cook your own for much cheaper, but with the baby, I’m feeling lazy)

Anyone have any experiences with services like that where you “outsource” part of your normal routine/chores to others?

New Feature! "Surprise Me"

New Feature! "Surprise Me"

If you look on the left, beneath the Picathon link, there’s a new link called Surprise Me.

This will show you a random game that you have not completed yet.

Picathon Update

Picathon Update

Picathon winners now get 1 TP for each player in the Picathon. It used to be 2 TP, we decided that was a little too many.

What do you guys think about reversing the rules for the Picathon, giving people strikes for voting on the most-picked picture? So you’d need to figure out what picture people would not vote for.

What Game Do You Want to See on Tanga?

What Game Do You Want to See on Tanga?

Let’s have a vote to see what game you want to see on Tanga. We will pick the top two requests and buy a bunch of them to offer up to you.

Just so you know, on a lot of these new-release games, we don’t make any money – in fact, after credit card processing, boxes, shipping losses (we do lose money on $5.99 shipping), we actually go backwards on some of these new releases. But we do it in or

Unfeatured Fun!

Unfeatured Fun!

Get ready for more puzzles! We get many more submissions than we can feature so we have started releasing Unfeatured Puzzles.

If you click on “PLAY” and then “VIEW UNFEATURED” (top right of screen) you’ll see the unfeatured puzzles.

Unfeatured puzzles can show up at any time, on any day. Multiple unfeatured puzzles can come out on a single day. Think of it like a YouTube for puzzles.

Al

Want to be a Daily Fun Moderator?

Want to be a Daily Fun Moderator?

If you do, post your resume here. It’s a very non-paid position. But it will help your career, no doubt about it.

You’ll get to have access to all the puzzles people have submitted, and will have the powers to nominate them as featured content, approve them straight to the archive (i.e. non-featured), or reject them (and explain why you rejected it).

You’ll also have the power to approve/

TangaJoe got a new camera

TangaJoe got a new camera

Based on my reading of this article, I got a new camera, and I am enjoying it.

I got a Canon Digital Rebel Xt, here’s a review.

I just got the base camera set, and then for lens I got a

Tanga needs a blog, darn it

Tanga needs a blog, darn it

So here it is.

I’m still on a baby high this week, my son Dashell (Dash) Clay Van Dyk was born last Friday (Pi Day!) and he is awesome. He even already has his own gmail and facebook account, got to start them off right, you know.

One of the things I’m looking of doing next is writing a facebook application for Tanga. There is one already written by the good man Scott Alden from BGG, but it

Little Site Upgrade

Little Site Upgrade

You might have noticed that things look a little different around here. We’re still working on polishing up the edges. If you notice any missing images, give them a few hours to appear.

Also, enjoy the Picathon!