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Newser dishes up top news from major outlets
News aggregation has been done with much success at Techmeme, Digg and Netscape. So who is this newcomer and what do they want and will they be a valuable top news source?Newser is layed out nicely, with top stories and pictures on the home page, and categories for World, US, Politics, Business, Science and Health, Technology, Sports, Culture and Society. A convenient, yet sometimes annoying feature is the expanding content on rollover. Great for testing the waters on story importance, but bad for load times and accidental mouse over's. No worries though, this can be turned off in preferences. Newser's news sources tend to stick to the major media outlets like Reuters, Associated Press, CNN, Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, totally shunning the blogs of the world who drop news as it happens.
This is defiantly a website for image and major media lovers. If you are trying to get the top news now, without distracting pictures and a little more text and a lot more articles, stick with the diggs of the world. Although it does provide some really great information, the fact is that blogs are a major part of media these days, breaking news at the second it happens, and to only have major media outlets highlighted drop this aggregation site lower on the list of importance for us.
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, ...
