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Newser dishes up top news from major outlets

newser news from major media outletsNews 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.

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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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