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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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Praveen Premchandran said 11:38PM on 8-05-2009
That is so totally awesome!!!
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cjborodin said 11:47PM on 8-05-2009
that's HYSTERICAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Rboyett said 12:09AM on 8-06-2009
I bet that will still work if you change the font color on that sentence to White so the reader doesn't have to see it.
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Quein said 1:45AM on 8-06-2009
Also works with racial epithets usually.
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jeremy said 1:47AM on 8-06-2009
i bet google starts putting in links to lifehacker for the above sentence.
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blaszta said 1:54AM on 8-06-2009
Gmail has ads on the right? Oh wait.. I use adBlock plus plugin in my Firefox :-D
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Michel Rijnders said 2:28AM on 8-06-2009
When you don't want to show your ant-ad email signature to the receipents: just make the text colour white. Google will still remove the ads.
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Step van Schalkwyk said 10:53AM on 8-06-2009
Is there a way to change text color in the signature ?
Niels van Dijk said 4:04AM on 8-06-2009
good find! But I see google ads more like a service than a annoyance.
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Step van Schalkwyk said 10:53AM on 8-06-2009
Dag,
Would you have a colonoscopy performed by a doctor advertising in a Google email sidebar???
jr said 8:11AM on 8-06-2009
Or, you could just use the ad block plus firefox add on. That works too.
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sybgtwy said 8:59AM on 8-06-2009
@jr: with the sig technique, you lean on their processing cycles rather than your own. A true hack, worthy of alt.hacks circa 1994
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Step van Schalkwyk said 10:26AM on 8-06-2009
Only works in the body of the message. Adding it to the bottom of the signature doesn't work - guess they've already compensated for this "feature". Now for the next one...
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Saint Seminole said 12:42PM on 8-06-2009
I tested this yesterday (along with a few keywords of my own) and it seems to work. However, I won't be using the technique often, and here's why.
I love Gmail. I love that it's free, that it spurred the race for larger total storage and larger attachments (a few years ago).
If it's the ads that keep it free (and they're relatively non-irritating, text-based ads), then I'll keep them, thank you very much.
In general, I use AdBlockPlus to take away the flashy, distracting, long-time-to-load ads that slow up many webpages and waste bandwidth. These little Gmail ads are okay in my book.
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Mysterius said 2:33PM on 8-06-2009
Seconded. Targeting all ads indiscriminately will only encourage the development of more distracting, virulent ads.
Far better to encourage a shift toward acceptable, non-intrusive ads by dismissing "bad" ads and allowing text-ads like Gmail's.
And if this doesn't work as a bottom-line signature (as some have posted), then is this worth all the trouble? Conversations without these lines will still have ads, you'll have to manually add them yourself (so does this even save time?), and you incur potential recipient confusion.
Are even innocuous text-ads too much for people?
jim said 3:14PM on 8-06-2009
Thirded, let the ads live if it's how they keep it free. everyone here knows not to click on these ads. I don't even notice them anymore and if one does catch my eye, I don't click on it. I just google it. :)
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threeohclock said 9:36PM on 8-06-2009
Fourthed - I find text ads to be relatively useful and unintrusive, and I like gmail. I block animated/flash advertising because it is not relevant and distracting.
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Andres said 2:59AM on 8-07-2009
I copied & pasted the sentence and something strange shows up at the bottom - a box with "Machine ID" something...anybody???
check it out: http://yfrog.com/07wtfilhj
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tortilla riot said 9:17AM on 8-07-2009
Bloodbath on its own does it. Blocking google adverts for a free service via AdBlock seems like such an idiotic approach to a free service. Along the lines of taking vegetables from a farmstore by the side of the road and not leaving any money.
Popups and huge flash ads I understand...google ads I don't, they're non intrusive.
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~reena said 10:23PM on 9-19-2009
Thanks, so much for this article.
I copied your sentences into my signature in white. Well, it showed up on the page - so I changed it again to white, and moved it as far down in the sig box as possible. It cannot be seen, unless a cursor is run over it.
The ads disappear! Nice & clean. Thx so much.
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