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Scare your family after you're gone with YouDeparted

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What better time to tell your family that they're about to lose the house thanks to your gambling debt than after the loan sharks have caught up with you and sent you to sleep with the fishes?

We're pretty sure that's not exactly what the folks behind YouDeparted had in mind when they created an "electronic safe deposit box." But that's what we'd use it for. That or leaving lots of MP3s telling everyone what we really think of them.

What the service is supposed to do is provide you with 5GB of encrypted storage space for $9.95 a year. When you're no longer able to read Download Squad, loved ones that you've selected will be able to access your information, including emails, letters, or other files. It's a way to share your final thoughts and/or wishes with your family.

It seems like there's a growing death-related industry growing online. The other day we profiled another company, Respectance, a social networking site that lets users create online memorials for lost loved ones. Perhaps this is a sign that the internet isn't just the domain of 12-24 year olds anymore.

Any way you look at it, the site's name is either an inappropriate attempt to sound like YouTube, or just a creepy way of reminding people that they're all going to die one day. In the past tense. You departed. As in you're not here any more. But you're still reading this. Spooky.

[via TechCrunch]

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CiviballsI have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.

In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.

To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.

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