Check out this great Q&A with ferociously smart—yet accessible!—video game designer and critic Ian Bogost over at Slashdot. Bogost famously devised the Facebook game Cow Clicker as a distillation of everything that's wrong and terrible and anti-human about social games. He writes clearly about the absence of politics within games as a political statement, his own gaming preferences, and how we might one day be able to move beyond Farmville. Even if you don't have a burning passion for collecting trophies or clicking cows, he delivers the goods on what your friends and coworkers are doing all day.

The Stranger Testing Department is Rob Lightner and Paul Hughes.