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Wine? Grow some stones, laddie! Connosr is a social site for whiskey
Connosr is the place to be. Fans contribute ratings and reviews to help you decide your next single malt purchase. Whiskeys are broken down into Scotch, Irish, and American, and can also be browsed by dozens of user-created tags such as vanilla, smoky, earthy, and spicy.
Don't think fancy-pants reviews are limited to wine aficionado sites. Whisky connoisseurs can be quite flowery with the descriptions, too. To whit:
The first thing that hits you about the nose is an orange blossom fragrance combined with a underlying smokey peatiness.Connosr user reviews are, in general, a terrific read and very informative.
The site also sports a Google Maps-powered display of each distillery as well as a collective map of those in Scotland. If you can't make it out, it's the whiteish-bluish thing covered with dozens of favicon-sized bottles. Too bad there's no integrated travel booking so you can arrange an impromptu distillery crawl.
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, ...
