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Read books while working
Sometimes work can be a bit overwhelming and you just need to take a break. But in some offices you're watched like a hawk and if your boss catches you doing something other than work, it could mean trouble.
Maybe that's why the New Zealand Book Council developed the readatwork website. Designed to simulate a typical XP desktop, you won't find flash games here. You will find short stories, poems, originals from New Zealand authors and some familiar classics.
What makes things interesting is the layout of the stories are entirely in the "Power Point " style, complete with animations that's sure not to arouse suspicion at work. That is, of course, if your position doesn't require the use of Power Point.
We must admit that while the layout was fun, it did make it hard to read the stories easily, as you had to try to hunt for the next sentence.
If you're looking to catch up on your reading at work, you might as well look like you're reviewing last Monday's sales presentation.
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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peegee said 10:31AM on 6-25-2008
haha... great concept.
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RP said 11:48AM on 6-25-2008
LOL -- very well done! Too funny!
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Mysterius said 9:00PM on 6-25-2008
Fun and well-done concept!
Could we have a version that lets up upload our own titles? :D
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