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W-i-d-e-U-R-L: Because sometimes tiny just isn't good enough
W-i-d-e-U-R-L will take your relatively short and easy to remember URL and lengthen it by essentially spelling it out. For example, www.downloadsquad.com becomes that behemoth you see above. But wait, there's more! Is that super-long URL a bit too much to remember? No problem, W-i-d-e-U-R-L features TinyURL integration, which lets you quickly condense any freshly created URL, thus closing an entirely pointless circle.
[via Robert Scoble]
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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, ...
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stan said 2:30PM on 4-16-2008
Someone has a sense of humor and too much time on there hands.
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Norman said 8:00PM on 4-16-2008
"Don't ask us when you would want that, just take our word for it."
No, you have to prove such statement. :)
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jccalhoun said 8:48PM on 4-16-2008
I prefer http://hugeurl.com/ for all my url embiggening.
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