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Flickr users upset over screenshot exclusion
Wired News is running an interesting piece about Flickr's policy which excludes images from being displayed in public areas of the site or global search results if more than half of the uploader's images are "non-photographic images." The rationale seems to be that when people come to Flickr they're looking for photos, not screenshots or other images. The policy has met opposition in particular from (you guessed it) Second Life users, who upload screenshots from the virtual world at a breathtaking rate, as well as illustrators. By primarily uploading non-photographic images, their accounts are flagged NIPSA, or Not in Public Site Areas. Flicrk co-founder Stewart Butterfield says revising the NIPSA policy is "in the top 10 percent" of things to do at Flickr, but there's no indication when a clearer policy will be in place.
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, ...
