Filed under: Audio, Business, Apple
iTunes music store now selling two-song "Digital 45s"
The first crop of 40 or so D45s includes major artists like Michael Jackson, R.E.M. and Coldplay. A lot of them have vinyl-themed album artwork, some come with PDF booklets, and many have songs I couldn't find anywhere else on the iTunes store. If you're going to pay $1.29 for the major hits anyway, you might as well chuck in that extra 30 to 70 cents for the D45s and check out the B-side. That's what Apple's hoping you'll do, anyway.
[via TUAW]
After years of speculation, Ars Technica is calling it "official": 
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, ...
