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Download Squad Week in Review

Too busy campaigning in South Carolina to read Download Squad this week? We understand. Running for President is tough. Don't worry though, we've got you covered. Tell one of your aides to hold all your calls and take a few to catch up on what's happening around your favorite Squad.


Mozilla's 10th Birthday - We baked a cake!

Ten years ago this week, Netscape announced that they'd open source the code to the in-development version of the next Netscape browser. That announcement eventually led to the founding of the Mozilla foundation, and the birth of our favorite browser, Firefox. We got so excited we enlisted the help of Slashfood blogger and pro-pastry chef Shayna Glick to bake a cake fitting of the occasion. What we ended up with was almost to beautiful to eat.

Find missing files with ease, under Linux.

Our lovable Linux Librarian, Kristin Shoemaker, checks in with another installment of her Linux Switcher series. This time, Kristin gives us the 411 on how to quickly locate those pesky files we just knew we saved, somewhere.

Five Smart Sex Podasts

Amber Rhea checked in to drop some science on us about a few pro-sex podcasts which manage to assume you have a brain in addition to a few other organs. This is part of her newly launched, ongoing series dealing with sex and the internet. Warning, these columns acknowledge the existence of sex, and even go so far as to suggest it might be a good idea.. if that offends you, skip ahead.

Featured Time Waster

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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