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Digg launches new look
There's still no images section, but Digg has launched a new front page design that includes both videos and text articles.Up until now, the videos were hidden off in their own section, so you'd only find funny/weird/interesting movies if you went looking for them. And really, where's the fun in that?
Now videos have a chance of showing up on the front page just like every other article submitted to Digg. Last time we checked, there was only one video on the front page, although there were plenty of other videos with a higher number of diggs. So it's not clear how it's determined whether a video will make the front page.
If you'd rather not see videos, you can click on the "News" tab. To switch back to the combined views, just click "All."
There are a few other subtle tweaks including a one-click "bury" command that makes it easier to vote against a story. Given that Reddit, StumbleUpon, and other services have a simple thumbs up or down system, it was getting a bit silly that it took two clicks to bury a Digg story.
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, ...
