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PhishTank: Open phishing site database
This week the folks behind OpenDNS launched PhishTank, a new database for tracking and defending against phishing sites. It's a pretty slick-looking site that allows you to submit suspected phishing sites, verify (or not) sites that other people have submitted. What really sets PhishTank apart, though, is that the database is totally open via a free API. This is intended to allow developers to build anti-phishing tools into their own programs and web apps at no cost. I've really been enjoying OpenDNS over the past few months, so I hope PhishTank will become as mature and useful.
[Via Paul Stamatiou]

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, ...
