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BotanicallsTwitter - now even your plants can twitter you

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It's fun to follow all your friends on Twitter and get updates from Darth Vader but now the bomb is getting Tweets from your little plant friends. If you have a burning desire to get tweets from your plants advising you on their need for water and nutrition, well, there's an interesting DIY gadget you can build courtesy of the folks at Botanicalls.

Basically, using an Adafruit Ethernet shield from Arduino, some nails, a soldering iron, a healthy plant, and a few other things, like your computer, as well as Arduino's software environment, (an open source, cross platform electronics prototyping system), you can build a gadget which will provide you with online Twitter status updates for your green leaf friend.

If you're smacking your head saying, Sheesh, I wish I had thought of that - well, imitation is the greatest form of flattery, right? Let us know what you build for your aquarium fish who are known to have the Twitter fanatic witihin, and while you're at it don't forget your little pond friends. They have so much to tell us.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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