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Extensive Stikkit review by John Gruber

Extensive Stikkit review by John GruberWe mentioned Stikkit, a new sort of online PIM with a twist, earlier this month, and one of my favorite bloggers on all things Mac and design, John Gruber, has gone and reviewed the crap out of it. It's a long read but worthwhile, especially if you're interested in the finer details the company focused on. John explores the format of the notes and the syntax with which they're created, pointing out the differences, for example, between bookmarks, notes and lists, and offering examples of how these notes are written.

If you're the cliff-notes type, however, I'll just skip to the end: while John reveals some cleverness in Stikkit, he ultimately finds it to be "a very good implementation of a flawed premise." Strange UI features (such as AJAX Everywhere™ technology in favor of linkable pages and notes) and behavioral limitations (like not being able to add more than one bookmark to a note) deflate an otherwise interesting concept.

Personally, while it admittedly isn't a free solution, I still find a Backpack account combined with the excellent syncing/offline Packrat client (Mac OS X only) to still be the king of the hill. If you haven't signed up yet, check out John's revue for more than you need to know about Stikkit.

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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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