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Firefox: the schmutz-blocker
by Marc Perton Jul 5th 2005 at 11:57PM
An anecdote about an old man and a Rabbi discussing web browsers in an airport departure lounge sounds like the beginning of a very bad joke. But when the old man in question is the grandfather of Firefox wunderkind Blake Ross, the punchline turns out to be that Firefox has reached a level of market penetration that seems almost divine. Read on for Ross' entertaining (but, I think, somewhat apocryphal) tale.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
