Filed under: Fun, Time-Wasters
HP goes over the top in packaging
by Christina Clark Jul 21st 2008
The folks over at The Register posted story about an amazing excess of packaging from HP. Apparently in an effort to send some licensing certificates, each set of two certificates was wrapped in a piece of foam, packed into a small box, and then the 16 small boxes were packed into one big box - which from the photo looks almost like two smaller boxes taped together. It's really stunning the amount of packaging for 32 sheets of paper. Has HP not heard of envelopes? Or better yet, email? Next time you feel the need for bubble wrap, go virtual for your popping with this online bubble wrap popping flash tool and package things a little less.
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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, ...
