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WikiCharts: Top 100 pages on Wikipedia

WikiCharts is a simple tool that lists the top 100 most-viewed pages on Wikipedia, with other relevant traffic stats. It's been around since last year, but it's a fun (and expectedly humorous) way to waste time and see what kind of scholarly research is being conducted through the website, and how it reflects current news, if at all.

This month, 'List of Pokémon' breaches the top then, while 'Sex' stands at a strong #13, and 'Canada', 'Family Guy', 'List of sex positions', 'Ungdomshuset', and good ol' 'Abraham Lincoln' round out some popular entries in the top 50. Interestingly, 'Battle of Thermopylae' is all the way up at position three, undoubtedly due to the recent release of the film, 300. Anyway, worth checking out if you haven't already seen it, and the tool has a few tweak-able settings on the bottom of the page.

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Build the highest tower with 99 Bricks - Time Waster

Wrapping your mind around a simple game like 99 Bricks is harder than you might imagine. The object of the game is to build the highest possible tower using only 99 pieces. Sounds easy enough, but you're playing with Tetris pieces and distinctly non-Tetris physics. If you screw up, you don't just leave gaps that you could have used to score points, you cause your whole tower to wobble and collapse.

Pieces also don't lock to a grid in 99 Bricks, the way they do in Tetris. You can wind up with pieces slanted diagonally, and there's an edge of the board that your toppled bricks can fall off of. 99 Bricks is kind of like Jenga, in that it's almost as satisfying to watch your tower crumble as it is to play seriously. Once you get the hang of the way the pieces behave, it's an addictive little game.

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