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Microsoft Live Labs releases online bulletin board called Thumbtack
Of course, when people talk about bulletin boards online, they usually mean discussion forums, so perhaps we should call this more of a refrigerator door that you can plaster with items from around the web.
You can either copy and paste text and images directly into Thumbtack or you can use a browser bookmarklet to automatically add content from any web page without leaving that page. The best way to do this is to highlight the text on the page that you want to save before pressing the bookmarklet, as the tool doesn't handle web pages with a lot of funky HTML and scripts very well and you'll wind up with a lot of unnecessary code in your clipping if you try to capture a whole web page.
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, ...
