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12 Days of holiday downloads, Day 8: Mac
Today's holiday download is bocken, a widget from hockeywidgets that shows the live webcam feed from the Gävlebocken, a giant straw Christmas goat erected each year in the Swedish town of Gävle. As christmas traditions go, this one is so much cooler than a guy in a Santa suit sitting in a mall food court that I don't even have words for it. As cool as a live feed of a straw goat is on its own, the widget is also a bit of internet public service. Apparently, Gävlebocken are quite frequently victims of arson; only about half of them have made it to Christmas without being burned. This year's goat has already out-lived last year's by a week. So if you happen to see someone trying to burn the goat, take a screencap, please, and email it to the Gävle PD.
Previous 12 Days of holidays downloads for OS X:
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7
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, ...
