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Idol fail and Songsmith make for great mashups

by Lee Mathews Jan 26th 2009

Have you played with Microsoft Songsmith yet? If not, here's what it does: sing into mic and Songsmith magically creates an accompaniment.

Does it work? Well, yes. Mostly. And when it doesn't, the blame can't be placed entirely on Songsmith.

Take the following YouTube clip, for example. Black metal - in this case, Naglfar's The Brimstone Gate - probably isn't the best choice for an Idol audition, but it does provide a glorious opportunity for some fun. The same audition with a jaunty island beat behind it? Pure gold.

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Tags: american-idol, hilarity, idol, music, songsmith, youtube

Filed under: Fun, Games, Kids, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware, Time-Wasters

Totem Destroyer - Time Waster

WindowsMacLinuxTime Wasterby Jason Clarke Jul 23rd 2008

Totem DestroyerTotem Destroyer is a fun little Flash-based physics game that is one part Indiana Jones, and one part Jenga.

The game play is simple; click on blocks to destroy them, while ensuring that the golden idol never touches the ground. There are three types of blocks: brown, green, and black. The brown ones are regular blocks and can be destroyed. The green ones are both bouncier than the brown ones, and have less friction, and they too can be destroyed. The black ones cannot be destroyed.

Each level starts with the idol balanced precariously on a stack of blocks, and your goal is to destroy the prescribed number of blocks without breaking the idol. There are 25 levels of mostly increasing difficulty, so this time waster should last you through your coffee break and part of your lunch break.

Tags: flash, flash-game, idol, indiana-jones, jenga, time-waster

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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, ...

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