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Amazon begins offering same-day delivery in select cities
Customers who live in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, Baltimore, Las, Vegas, and Seattle can select same-day deliver if they place an order early enough in the day (before 10:00AM in most areas, and before 1:00PM in Seattle).
Of course, same-day delivery ain't exactly free budget shipping. Amazon Prime members, who pay $79 per year for some extra perks will have to pay $6 per item for the speedier delivery. Non Prime members will have to pony up substantially more cash. The New York Times notes that a box of diapers will set you back $15 in shipping. When I checked the shipping charges for an HD media player, it was closer to $20.
What do you think? Are you more likely to buy something if shipping is fast? Or cheap?
Sure, Vista sales 
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, ...
