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TinyPaste: It's like TinyURL for text, not URLs

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There are dozens of services that let you shorten long URLs so it's easier to copy and paste them into emails, instant messages, or micro-blogging services like Twitter. TinyPaste does basically the same thing -- but with chunks of text.

Here's how it works. Say you want to write a short book explaining in explicit detail everything you've done today. And you want to share it with all of your Twitter followers. Unfortunately Twitter has a 140 character limit. What do you do? You cheat by writing your diatribe into a TinyPaste text box and clicking submit. What you get is a short URL that you can paste into Twitter. Anyone who clicks will see the full text of your unreasonably long narrative.

Of course, you could also just write your story on a blog or other web site and use TinyURL or another service to shorten the URL. But what's the fun in using a full service blogging client with rich text formatting tools when you can use TinyPaste's plain text box?

In all seriousness, if you don't have a blog but want to share something with a bunch of people quickly, we can see how TinyPaste could come in handy. But it does seem a bit like a solution in search of a problem.

[via TechCrunch]

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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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