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Shvoong Homework - It's for kids!

Shvoong HomeworkIf you've been looking for a way to get your kids to hate you, we are proud to inform you that the wait is over. It's called Shvoong Homework and it's worse than detention. Calling itself "the world-wide notebook for all your school needs" it fails to actually address any of them.

It begins innocently enough. You sign up for a Shvoong Homework account, give them your e-mail and nickname, and you're ready to Shvoong with the best of them. You are then presented with three options: edit your timetable, edit your notebooks, or connect with your friends that also use Shvoong Homework.

There are so many things wrong with this picture it's hard to know where to begin. The timetable is a virtually worthless feature because kids memorize their class schedule within a week anyway. The notebook feature is an awkwardly implemented document editor and homework uploader (and has a little image of Cartman smiling at you - we suppose that means it's kid friendly). As for the friends feature, supposedly you can share your homework answers with other friends. Great. Have your kids spend their time uploading their homework to Shvoong Homework instead of actually doing it.

And if that isn't enough to get your kids to beg you to punish them with anything, but please, not the Shvoong, then the made-in-2001 design and horrible interface will turn them into straight A students. Oh yes, it's still in beta, but you probably shouldn't get your hopes up.

[via MakeUseOf]

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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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