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It's time to slay dragons
by Ted Wallingford Mar 22nd 2006 at 7:45PM
If you've been playing World of Warcraft for any length of time, then you know that there are just some
quests you can't do every day. They're too special, too "l33t" to happen all the time. Like slaying the great
dragon Onyxia. Or trauling through the menacing dungeon Zul Gurub in search of really rare treasure. But, if you're not
paying attention to the spawn schedule of these quests, then you may miss your chance to go on them! And what fun is
that?Fortunately, there's a great widget for OS X's Dashboard called World of Warcraft Raid Calendar that will remind you when a periodic instance raid is about to spawn. It will even display a countdown timer for the most sought-after raids. It works with any Warcraft realm server, and is available as a free download. Windows users, well, no OS X, no Dashboard. No Dashboard, no Raid Calendar Widget.
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, ...
