Avast, ye game-lubbers! Monkey Island Tales for iPad and Tales of Monkey Island (same game) for PC/Mac are on sale this week.

Are you a fan of adventure games? Monkeys? Terrible puns? How about pirates? Then today be your lucky day, mateys.

In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day (which is today, scallywags), Telltale Games is offering Monkey Island Tales HD for iPad for just $2.99 per episode. (There are five that make up the complete game.) Normally, each episode would run you $6.99.

That link is to Episode 1. (Never mind that CNET's download page says "for iPhone"--this is definitely an iPad game.) Assuming you've tried it and liked it, be sure to grab Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, and Episode 5.

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A perfect score on the Acid3 browser test looks like this.

Two browser experts have pared back Acid3, a test that browser standards fans held up to spotlight Internet Explorer's shortcomings, so the test won't hold back development of those standards.

Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML specification, and Håkon Wium Lie, chief technology officer of browser maker Opera, decided to make the change, and Hickson announced it on Google+ on Saturday.

"Håkon Wium Lie and I are announcing that we have updated the Acid3 test by commenting out the parts of the test that might get changed in the specs," Hickson said. "We hope this will allow the specs to change in whatever way is best for the Web, rather than constraining the changes to only be things that happened to fit what Acid3 tested!"

Web developers will be interested in his list of standards under debate for serious change--in the real world of standards, not just in the test. And fans of fonts and animations using SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) should brace themselves for the possibility that those technologies will be excised altogether from the full array of Web standards.

Acid3 measures 100 aspects of Web standards compliance, but the test arrived in a more inf... [Read more]