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Diggwatcher - digg notifications
by Jason Clarke Jun 11th 2007
So you've submitted a page to digg, and are frantically waiting to see if your opinion is deemed worthy by the teeming swarm of digg users. What do you do? Well, you could frantically refresh the dig page you submitted, hoping to notice it changing over time, or you could outsource this work to the Diggwatcher. Created by Gary Carstensen using the recently released digg API, Diggwatcher allows you to enter a digg story URL to be monitored. The web application will then play sounds whenever the story is dugg, commented on, or is deemed popular. The sound files used are configurable, but the defaults are fun - a guitar chord for a digg, a bell-like alert for comments, and an air horn and rabid cheering for achieving popular status.
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, ...
