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Donate to Katrina victims via P2P
If you're looking for a way to donate to victims of Hurricane Katrina
and show your support for the P2P distribution model at the same time, the
Distributed Computing Industry Association, a P2P trade organization, has a deal for you.
The DCIA will release a version of the song "This Too Will Pass" by
Scooter Scudieri with — yikes — DRM, requiring a payment of 89 cents to
unlock, 80 cents of which will go to victims. Of course, the DRM being
used is the P2P-friendly Weed, so you can still check out the song for
free by downloading it via Kazaa, Grokster and other P2P services. Then
go ahead and hand over the 89 cents, even if you've never paid for
music before, and never will again.
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, ...
