Filed under: Open Source, Holiday Gift Guide
Gift Guide: Support open and free computing
Once you've sorted
out gifts for your family, friends, and favorite bloggers, why not give a bit back to the people whose free software
you enjoy (and depend on) all year 'round? Devanshu Mehta has put together a great list of free software projects
and organizations that depend on your donations and involvement to keep producing great products. Among his picks
are the Mozilla Foundation, the Wikimedia Foundation, OpenOffice.org, the Fedora Project, Emacs, Adium, Fink, and, of
course, the EFF. I would also add to that list the Free Software Foundation, WordPress, and in a slightly different category, Child's Play.
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, ...
