Filed under: Fun, Web services
Reader2: del.icio.us for booklovers
If you're looking for something to read but don't know where to start,
you could always ask a friend (or Amazon.com) to recommend something.
Or, you could try out the latest social bookmarking service, Reader², which is a del.icio.us-style service for books from the folks who brought us MyProgs.
So far, members have tagged over 4,000 books, with a heavy emphasis on
Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman and J.K. Rowling. Yes, there's a lot of
sci-fi and fantasy there now, but like any other social service, it's
all about the people who add to it. So, if you'd like to see
Shakespeare or Dickens move up in the ranks, get in there and start
tagging.
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, ...
